Title continues: "Selected from their Speeches, from the year 1770, down to the Present Time. With a Copious Index to the Whole, and an Address to the Public." The Fox-North Coalition was a British Government that held office during 1783. The ministry was a coalition of groups supporting Charles James Fox and Lord North. Edmund Burke, another member of the coalition, was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who served for many years in the House of Commons as a member of the Whig Party.