The magnanimous minister chastiseing Prussian perfidy

Standing in the center of the sheet, Charles James Fox raises his sword against Frederick William III, who kneels in supplication to the left of the image. While the hand extended towards the Emperor of Prussia wields a sword, Fox's right hand, tucked behind his back, displays a sheet inscribed "State of the Nation." Napoleon, standing on the far right behind Fox, leans in to inspect the sheet Fox holds. Significantly, all three figures are grotesqued and represented as villians of equal disrepute. However, it is Fox, who poses the most danger to Britain through his muddled loyalties. Although the composition of this image is a copy of Gillray's image published in 1806, the spirit of the original has been lost in the translation. The engraver has adapted Gillray's design to a smaller sheet, and flattened out the figures. The colors and quality of line lack the energy and subtlety found in Gillray's caricatures. Additionally, the obvious spelling mistake in the title is curious and presently unaccounted for. Standing in the center of the sheet, Charles James Fox raises his sword against Frederick William III, who kneels in supplication to the left of the image. While the hand extended towards the Emperor of Prussia wields a sword, Fox's right hand, tucked behind his back, displays a sheet inscribed "State of the Nation." Napoleon, standing on the far right behind Fox, leans in to inspect the sheet Fox holds. Significantly, all three figures are grotesqued and represented as villians of equal disrepute. However, it is Fox, who poses the most danger to Britain through his muddled loyalties. Although the composition of this image is a copy of Gillray's image published in 1806, the spirit of the original has been lost in the translation. The engraver has adapted Gillray's design to a smaller sheet, and flattened out the figures. The colors and quality of line lack the energy and subtlety found in Gillray's caricatures. Additionally, the obvious spelling mistake in the title is curious and presently unaccounted for. Published by John Miller, n.d. British Museum, BM 10560a (?). John Miller, the publisher whose name appears on this sheet, published copies after Gillray's designs. Most of these are smaller in scale than the originals. Here the supposed republican sympathies of the Whig party are highlighted in a criticism of Fox, the party's leader. Despite Fox's public display of contempt for Napoleon and other enemies of the British Empire, he is secretly in cahoots with the French. Mary George notes that this sheet is a 'satire on Fox's speech of 23 April on the King's message, (21 April), relating to Prussia. By Proclamation of 28 Mar. British ships were excluded from all ports within Prussian control.' Caption: London Published by John Miller Bridge Street & W. Blackwood Edinburgh Dialogue: Fox: "O you Prussian Marauder, you!--what I've caught you at last?--what you took me for a double-faced-Talleyrand! did you?--did you think I was like yourself, to look one way and row another?--what you thought because I make Loyal Speeches now I must be a Turncoat?__O you Frenchified villain! I'll teach you to humbug & insult my poor, dear dear master?--& to join with such Rascals as Boney & O'Conner! Dialogue: Prussian: "indeed! indeed! indeed! I could not help it." Inscription: Vide Morning Chronicle