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Journal of Liberal History

On This Day

20 May 1798

Radical Whig Charles James Fox speaking to Whigs at Freemason’s Tavern provokes the ire of his Tory arch-rival William Pitt the Younger, as well as his dismissal from the Privy Council, with a toast to ‘Our Sovereign Majesty the people’.