Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I mihi a Fox ki te French Revolution o 1789, e whakamaori ana i a ia hei tauira o te Continental i muri mai o te Glorious Revolution o Ingarangi o 1688. Hei whakautu ki te
Ko te whakaekenga o te Bastille i te 14 o Hurae, i kii rongonui ia, "He aha te mea nui rawa atu i puta i te ao! a he aha te mea pai!" I te Paenga-whāwhā o te tau 1791, ka mea a Fox ki te Whare Commons e "whakamoemiti ana ia ki te kaupapa ture hou o Parani, i whakaarohia ko te mea tino whakamiharo me te kororia o te herekore, i whakaarahia ki runga i te turanga o te tapatahi o te tangata i tetahi wa, whenua ranei". Na reira i miharo ia ki te urupare o tana hoa tawhito a Whig, Edmund Burke, ki nga kaupapa whakaharahara i tawahi o te Channel. I roto i tana "Reflections on the Revolution in France", i whakatupato a Burke ko te hurihanga he tutu tutu ki te tikanga me te mana tika, i akiakihia e Utopian, nga whakaaro kore e hono ana ki te pono, ka arahi ki te koretake me te mana rangatira. I panui a Fox i te pukapuka ka kitea he "tino kino" me te "whakaaro i nga kaupapa Tory", engari i karo i te akiaki i te take mo te wa poto ki te pupuri i tana hononga ki a Burke. Ko nga Whigs tino kaha, penei i a Sheridan, i wehe atu i a Burke i tenei waa.