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 | | While Fox and some younger members of the party such as Charles Grey and Richard Brinsley Sheridan were sympathetic to the French revolutionaries, others, and especially Edmund Burke, quickly became virulently opposed. |
 | | Although Burke himself was largely alone in defecting to Pitt in 1791, much of the rest of the party, including the influential House of Lords leader the Duke of Portland, Rockingham's nephew Lord Fitzwilliam, and William Windham, were increasingly uncomfortable with the flirtations of Fox and his allies with radicalism and the French Revolution. |
 | | In early 1793 they split with Fox over the question of support for the war with France, and by the end of the year they had openly broken with Fox. |
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