Promis'd horrors of the French invasion, or forcible reasons for negociating a regicide peace -- Vide the authority of Edmund Burke

The scene is a crowded London street. The two buildings that border the image are White's coffee house (left), a Tory establishment, and Brooke's coffee house (right) a Whig establishment. French soldiers storm into White's and leave a bloody trail in their wake. As they enter they cut throats with their bayonets. An equally horrifying fate has come to George Canning and Lord Hawkesbury, who hang from a light post. Even the Royal princes face a terrible demise as they are stabbed and thrown from the balcony. Brooke's is also a center of nefarious industry. Thelwall (?), Landerdale and Stanhope parade the bloody head and truncated bottom half of Lord Grenville on the ends of a balance while the Duke of Bedford (in the guise of a bull) gores Edmund Burke, and Richard Sheridan carries sacks of money looted from the Treasury. The Tower of London can be seen burning in the center far distance of the image. This image plays on the exaggerated predictions of Edmund Burke. In this scene prominent Whig politicians join in on the rabble rousing and on the regicide that characterized the French Revolution in England. In the center of the image Fox, who is dressed in plebeian clothing, has tied Pitt to a "liberty tree"--a pole topped by a garland of flowers and the bonnet rouge of the revolution. Pitt is martyred for his party as Fox scourges his bare back with a bundle of twigs. A bloody ax lies on the cobble stones along with the heads of victims. The Whigs have even gone so far as to erect a guillotine on the balcony of Brooke's. A key has been inscribed by hand at the far left border of the sheet. Each of the twenty-three names listed in pen and ink corresponds to a numbered figure in the satire. The scene is a crowded London street. The two buildings that border the image are White's coffee house (left), a Tory establishment, and Brooke's coffee house (right) a Whig establishment. French soldiers storm into White's and leave a bloody trail in their wake. As they enter they cut throats with their bayonets. An equally horrifying fate has come to George Canning and Lord Hawkesbury, who hang from a light post. Even the Royal princes face a terrible demise as they are stabbed and thrown from the balcony. Brooke's is also a center of nefarious industry. Thelwall (?), Landerdale and Stanhope parade the bloody head and truncated bottom half of Lord Grenville on the ends of a balance while the Duke of Bedford (in the guise of a bull) gores Edmund Burke, and Richard Sheridan carries sacks of money looted from the Treasury. The Tower of London can be seen burning in the center far distance of the image. This image plays on the exaggerated predictions of Edmund Burke. In this scene prominent Whig politicians join in on the rabble rousing and on the regicide that characterized the French Revolution in England. In the center of the image Fox, who is dressed in plebeian clothing, has tied Pitt to a "liberty tree"--a pole topped by a garland of flowers and the bonnet rouge of the revolution. Pitt is martyred for his party as Fox scourges his bare back with a bundle of twigs. A bloody ax lies on the cobble stones along with the heads of victims. The Whigs have even gone so far as to erect a guillotine on the balcony of Brooke's. A key has been inscribed by hand at the far left border of the sheet. Each of the twenty-three names listed in pen and ink corresponds to a numbered figure in the satire. October 20, 1796 Inscription: Pubd. Octr. 20th 1796. by H. Humphrey New Bond Street. Printed Signature: Js. Gy. d.& fect. Annotation: 1. ....... 2. Lord Hawkesbury 3. Mr. Canning 4. Duke of Richmond 5. Mr. Fox 6. Mr. M. A. Taylor 7. Mr. Pitt 8. Mr. Thetwall 9. Ld. Landerdale 10. Ld. Stanhope 11. Ld. Grenville 12. Duke of Bedford 13. Mr. Burke 14. Ld. Sydney 15. Mr. Windham 16. Master of the Rolls 17. Mr. Erskine 18. Ld. Lansdown 19. Duke of Grafton 20. Dule of Norfolk 21. Lord Darby (?) 22. Mr. Sheridan 23. Mr. Dundas Text: Inscribed on a piece of paper over the hanged men: "New March to Paris by Betty Canning & Jenny Jenkison" Inscribed on the flags: "Vive La Republique" "Vive [La] Nation" Inscribed on the ribbon over the balance with Grenville's dismembered body: "Vive L'Egalité" Inscribed on the bonnet rouge topping the liberty pole: "LI/BER/TAS" Inscribed on the papers held by Erskine: "Magna Chart..." (l.), and "New Code of Laws" (r.). Inscribed on a paper under the plate holding three heads: "Killed Off for the Public Good" Inscribed on the books dropped by Burke: "Reflections upon a Regicide Peace" and "Letter to the Duke of Bedford." Inscribed on the collar of the ox: "Great Bedfordshire Ox." Inscribed on the sacks carried by Sheridan: "Remains of the Treasury" and "Requisition from the Bank of England." Inscribed on a gold basin filled with crowns: "J. Hall Apothecary to the New Constitution." Bundled as waste paper: "Acts of Parliament," "Bill of Rights," "Statutes..." Tag on basket containing head and bagpipes: "To the Care of Citizen Horne Tooke."