ABSTRACT
Reinforcing the drift of the previous issue, no. XVIII’s ‘Ode’ again recalls Fox’s birthday and Norfolk’s bibulous toast to the ‘Sovereignty of The People’. The ‘Ode’ plays on one from Horace, revelling in eloquence brought on by wine. The anti-jacobins were not alone in keeping the affair alive. The daily papers went through extraordinary contortions to prove that Norfolk had not meant what he was charged with meaning, and should not be punished; alternatively, that he had, and was a martyr to the cause. Fox meanwhile was busy repeating the toast, or one very like, at subsequent meetings of the Whig club, recklessly playing into the hands of the anti-jacobins.
