He resolved to speak when the time came for the Canada Bill to be recommitted.

Meanwhile some of his friends did all that they could to dissuade him from pressing the matter farther.
Even the Prince of Wales is said to have written him a letter.

There were many signs of the rupture that was so soon to come in the Whig ranks.

Men so equally devoted to the common cause as Windham and Elliot nearly came to a quarrel at a dinner-party at Lord Malmesbury's, on the subject of Burke's design to speak; and Windham, who for the present sided with Fox, enters in his diary that he was glad to escape from the room without speaking to the man whom, since the death of Dr.Johnson, he revered before all other men besides.
On the day apointed for the Canada Bill, Fox called at Burke's house, and after some talk on Burke's intention to speak, and on other matters, they walked down to Westminster and entered the House together, as they had so many a time done before, but were never to do again.

They found that the debate had been adjourned, and it was not until May 6th that Burke had an opportunity of explaining himself on the Revolution in France.