[The _India Bill_ brought in by FOX, shortly after his accession to office, was the signal for his downfall. The Bill passed the House of Commons by large majorities, but when it reached the Lords, the King, who hated FOX, empowered Earl Temple to declare that he would consider everyone who supported the measure as personally his enemy. The Bill was consequently lost on the second reading by a majority of eighty-seven against twenty-nine. The Coalition Ministry resigned, and PITT, then in his 23rd year, became Prime Minister.] Footnote 159: [JOHN NICHOLLS, M.P. for Tregony, was blind of one eye, and altogether remarkably ugly. His delivery was ungraceful, and his action generally much too vehement. He wrote _Recollections and Reflections during the Reign of George III._, 2 vols. 8vo., 1822. His hostile pamphlet on the _Income Tax_ is marked by great ability.—ED.] Footnote 160: [On the 14th April, 1794, THELWALL was in the chair at a supper of one of the Divisions of the Reformers, and blowing off the head of a pot of porter said, “This is the way I would have all kings served”.—ED.] Footnote 161: [JOHN HORNE TOOKE was educated for the Church, and in 1760 became vicar of _New Brentford_. Resigning this he studied the Law, but being a clergyman was refused admission to the Bar. At first he supported PITT, then a _promising_ Reformer, publishing in 1788 his “Two Pair of Portraits,” disadvantageously contrasting FOX and his father with Pitt and his father. But Pitt not fulfilling his hopes, he became his bitter opponent and softened his animosity towards FOX. In 1775 he was imprisoned for a libel on the king’s troops in America. In 1790 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Westminster; the other candidates being FOX and Admiral Sir Alan Gardner. In 1794 he was tried, in company with THELWALL and others, for high treason, when all were acquitted. In 1796 he again stood for Westminster, and failed; but in 1801 he obtained a seat in Parliament for Old Sarum, on the nomination of Lord Camelford. A remarkable memoir of him was contributed to the _Quarterly Review_, vol. 7, by Lord Dudley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Canning’s administration, 1827–8.—ED.] [Footnote: HOR. LIB. III., CARM. XXV. DITHYRAMBUS. [162]Quo me, Bacche, rapis, tui Plenum? quæ nemora, aut quos agor in specus, Velox mente novâ? [163]Quibus Antris egregii Cæsaris audiar Eternum meditans decus Stellis inserere, et consilio Jovis? ® Footnote 164: Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc Indictum ore alio. Footnote 165: Non secus in jugis Exsomnis stupet Evias, Hebrum prospiciens. Footnote 166: et nive candidam Thracen, ac _pede barbaro Lustratam Rhodopen_. Footnote 167: