ENGLAND ı 
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 
Germans and Spaniards, since the great Frankish emperor's 
dominions had extended as far as the Elbe and the Ebro. 
Meanwhile Pitt had found no competent successor in 
England, No statesman commanded sufficient authority with 
vs the people or the Parliament to take his place. 
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ministry The result that followed was a coalition ministry. 
formedin The Whig party, excluded from office for more 
England, . : 
than twenty years, were invited to take their share 
in the governance of the realm. Charles James Fox and 
Sheridan took office, allied to Lord Grenville, long a faithful 
supporter of Pitt, and to many other Tories, among whom 
Addington was numbered, 
Even the way in which Bonaparte had broken the peace of 
Amiens had not wholly cured Fox of his idea that peace with 
France was possible. The invasion scheme being 
Fotile San foiled, he thought that the emperor might be willing 
Napoleon. to come to terms. Accordingly, the Grenville- 
Fox cabinet entered into negotiations with the 
enemy in 1806. Napoleon at first used smooth words, but 
the conditions on which he offered peace were humiliating, 
considering that England had hitherto not only held her 
own, but had swept the French fleet from the seas and 
occupied a great number of French colonies. "To his great 
regret, Fox was compelled to acknowledge that an honourable 
and reasonable peace was not procurable. Soon 
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Fox-— after he died (September, 1806), surviving his 
Break-up of great rival Pitt by less than a year. "The coalition 
the coalition KO . ; e . 
The Tories Ministry survived him a few months, but resigned 
return to in March, 1807. The two elements in it were at 
office, variance, and the Whigs made the refusal of 
George III. to allow them to introduce Catholic Emancipation 
their excuse for leaving office, A cabinet of pure "Fories 
succceded them, in which the leading spirit was Spencer 
Porceval, thougl. {'.- nremiership was nominally held by the 
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