Engraving by J. Sayers. The interior of a hall intended for the French National Assembly. On the extreme left a large tub raised from the ground serves as a tribune, its right half only being visible; from this leans a grotesquely caricatured and foppish Frenchman, blowing a trumpet with a force which distends his cheeks. In his right hand are leading-strings supporting a lean youth who stands on the floor leaning forward, a firebrand in his left hand, and electrical rod in his right. From the trumpet of Francois (de Neufchateau) issue the words "Voici un beau Garçon le fils de Dr Pr***tly grand Democrat &c" Young Priestly addressed the members who are seated on the extreme right under a gallery, travestied as men with the heads of animals (an ass, two frogs, an owl, a boar); he says, "Papa sends me to you for Improvement I will bear true Allegiance &c". They put their fingers to his electrical rod, which emits sparks. This rod is connected by a chain with a large jar inscribed 'Phlogiston from Hackney College'. Above the members the corner of a gallery appears from which three grinning fish-wives look down. In the back wall is a large Gothic window. William Priestly, Dr. Priestly's third son, was introduced at the bar of the National Assembly on 8 June, where he applied for French Nationality, proposing to reside in France; he made an address in which he quoted his father: "go and live among this brave and hospitable people; enjoy the rights of a French citizen, a title which he prefers an hundred times to that of the King of an arbitrary State. . ." 'London Chronicle', 14 June. Dr. Priestly, after the Birmingham riots, moved to Hackney, giving lectures at Hackney College. William Priestly emigrated with two elder brothers to American in August 1793. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8108.