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Rather ironically, while Fox was being denounced by many in Britain as a Jacobin traitor, across the Channel he featured on a 1798 list of the Britons to be transported after a successful French invasion of Britain.

According to the document, Fox was a " false patriot ; having often insulted the French nation in his speeches, and particularly in 1786.

" According to one of his biographers, Fox's " loyalties were not national but were offered to people like himself at home or abroad ".

In 1805 Francis Horner wrote that: " I could name to you gentlemen, with good coats on, and good sense in their own affairs, who believe that Fox ... is actually in the pay of France ".