In the galleries there was hardly a dry eye.
Fox, as might have been expected from his warm and generous nature, was deeply moved, and is described as weeping even to sobbing.

He repeated his former acknowledgment of his debt to Burke, and he repeated his former expression of faith in the blessings which the abolition of royal despotism would bring to France.

With unabated vehemence Burke again rose to denounce the French Constitution--"a building composed of untempered mortar--the work of Goths and Vandals, where everything was disjointed and inverted." After a short rejoinder from Fox the scene came to a close, and the once friendly intercourse between the two heroes was at an end.

When they met in the Managers' box in Westminster Hall on the business of Hastings's trial, they met with the formalities of strangers.

There is a story that when Burke left the House on the night of the quarrel it was raining, and Mr.
Curwen, a member of the Opposition, took him home in his carriage.
Burke at once began to declaim against the French.