"It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief."
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AbolitionistsMembers of the Parliament of Great BritainPeople from LondonWhig (British political party) politiciansSecretaries of State for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain and the United Kingdom
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Letter to Mr. Fitzpatrick on George III (9 September 1781), quoted in John Brooke, George III (Panther, 1974), pp. 363-364
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Charles James Fox
1749 – 1806
englischer Staatsmann und Rhetoriker
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