Pacific-overtures, or a flight from St. Clouds "over the water to Charley": a new dramatic peace now rehearsing.

Napoleon' s overtures of Peace towards Great Britain are here characterized as a rehearsal for a dramatic production in the theater. Napoleon stands in a bank of clouds at the right side of the stage. George III has emerged from his box seat to stand on the left side of the stage and peer at Napoleon through a short telescope. Napoleon returns the King's gaze and gestures toward a long scroll held by Talleyrand and inscribed with a list of impossible demands. Talleyrand sits on a large overturned basket that empties gold coins and sheets of paper onto the stage. As the papers are inscribed variously "The Argus," "To The London Corresponding Society," "Address to the Papists," "The Whig Club," and the "United Irishmen," the implication is that the threat against George III lies within the opposition party. A statue of William Pitt, who died in January of 1806, stands on a pedestal to just behind George III. A ship bearing the British flag and the title "The Royal Soverign" is painted on the backdrop. The orchestra is equally constituted by "subversive" figures. The Broad Bottom coalition is present as is Charles James Fox, who holds his bow away from the fiddle to listen to promises made by ?. William Sheridan sits, sleeping on the far right of the orchestra pit. Members of the audience spill out of their box seats on the right of the stage and applaud the performance. Among them the Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated in the bottom right box, wait to stage their own political farce titled "Dolly made a Dutchess." Napoleon' s overtures of Peace towards Great Britain are here characterized as a rehearsal for a dramatic production in the theater. Napoleon stands in a bank of clouds at the right side of the stage. George III has emerged from his box seat to stand on the left side of the stage and peer at Napoleon through a short telescope. Napoleon returns the King's gaze and gestures toward a long scroll held by Talleyrand and inscribed with a list of impossible demands. Talleyrand sits on a large overturned basket that empties gold coins and sheets of paper onto the stage. As the papers are inscribed variously "The Argus," "To The London Corresponding Society," "Address to the Papists," "The Whig Club," and the "United Irishmen," the implication is that the threat against George III lies within the opposition party. A statue of William Pitt, who died in January of 1806, stands on a pedestal to just behind George III. A ship bearing the British flag and the title "The Royal Soverign" is painted on the backdrop. The orchestra is equally constituted by "subversive" figures. The Broad Bottom coalition is present as is Charles James Fox, who holds his bow away from the fiddle to listen to promises made by ?. William Sheridan sits, sleeping on the far right of the orchestra pit. Members of the audience spill out of their box seats on the right of the stage and applaud the performance. Among them the Prince Regent and Mrs. Fitzherbert, seated in the bottom right box, wait to stage their own political farce titled "Dolly made a Dutchess." Caption: Pubd April 5th 1806, by H. Humphrey St James s Street Caption: Js Gillray fect Dialogue: George III (l.): Very Amusing terms indeed!/ and might do vastly well with some of/ the new-made little Gingerbread Kings/but We are not in the habits of giving/ -up either "Ships, or Commerce, or/ Colonies" merely because little Boney / is in a pet to have them!!! Dialogue: Napoleon (center): There's my Term's [sic] Dialogue: Remember my Friend your Oath. - "Our politics are the same." Inscription: Terms/ of / Peace. Acknowledge / me as Emperor / Dismantle / your Fleet Reduce your / Army Abandon Malta / & Gibralter / Renounce all/ Continental / Connection / Your Colonies / I will take at / a Valuation / Engage to / Pay to the / Great Nation / for 7 Years/ annually/ £1,000,000 / and place / in my hands / as Hostages / the Princess / Charlotte of / Wales, with / Ten of ye late / Administration / Whom I shall / name.