The Men, and the Times : fragment of an autograph manuscript.

Being a draft of the concluding portion of an Essay which appeared in the Morning Post on July 18, 1803 with notes on Mr. Fox's speech of May 24, 1803 on the verso; beginning, in the draft of the Essay, which Coleridge has titled "The Men, and the Times', "The evening Twilight of our short stormy Winter's day of Peace has at length compleatly closed in : / and once again we are at War!" and concluding "Bear with me however in the present instance : in my future communications I shall go to the business of Facts & of Deductions from facts, at once, & by the shortest road;" in his notes on Mr. Fox's speech on the verso, Coleridge begins "It might be supposed from the manner, in which Mr. Fox treats the subject, that it was a Duel, of which he was talking, not a War" and ending with "The Treaty of Amiens did not sanction this military Division - & it was known that France had solemnly engaged with the Emperor of Russia, that Landsman King &c -;" the remainder of the manuscript is missing.