11/51 His name was introduced into ironical toasts. For a whole year there was scarcely a member of his former party who did not stand aloof from him. Windham, when the feeling was at its height, sent word to a host that he would rather not meet Burke at dinner. Dr.Parr, though he thought Mr.Burke the greatest man upon earth, declared himself most indignantly and most fixedly on the side of Mr.Sheridan and Mr.Fox.The Duke of Portland, though always described as strongly and fondly attached to him, and Gilbert Elliot, who thought that Burke was right in his views on the Revolution, and right in expressing them, still could not forgive the open catastrophe, and for many months all the old habits of intimacy among them were entirely broken off. He went down to Margate, and there finished the _Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs_. |