 After Parliament was dissolved in June 1802 , another election saw Coke again returned , although in a contested election that cost the candidates £ 35 @,@ 000 . With the death of William Pitt in 1806 , the two Whig groups agreed to an alliance , which took the form of the Ministry of All the Talents ; Fox was confirmed as Foreign Secretary , and Windham as Secretary for War and the Colonies . The government apparently offered Coke a peerage , which he refused , and primarily focused on the abolition of slavery , which was accomplished only after the death of Fox on 13 September 1806 . Fox 's death made Parliament lose some of its appeal to Coke , as they had been close friends . His attendance in the next two years was very limited , and the next occasion of note was his support of the Corn Laws , which were highly unpopular in Norfolk and led to him being physically attacked by a mob in 1815 . 
