Charles James Fox was champion of liberty and strong fighter against any kind of oppression. He was Britain's first foreign secretary. He is best known for two important reforms; the first, a resolution pledging to abolish the slave trade and the 1792 libel act which gave more jury more expansive rights over the decisions on libel cases. Fox was at odds for most of his career with King George III. He opposed the American Revolutionary War and thought George III to be a tyrant. 

This token shows Charles Fox, the leader of the opposition, very gleeful, a result of the situation that William Pitt, the Prime Minister who is unhappy at his unpopularity and inability to control 'sedition and revolt' - or as Spence would have it 'liberalism and republicanism'. The reverse portrays George III conjoined with the head of a donkey. The ass was to symbolize the idiocy of the British public. 

Thomas Spence issued tokens, the designs being intended to give publicity to the political sentiments which he advocated.