By Isaac Cruikshank. Britannia, wearing black mourning draperies, stands weeping in the centre of the design, with outstretched arms, her head turned in profile to the right, where the late Ministers are running off with bundles of booty. Her shield (without the cross of St. Patrick, added at the Union) and (broken) spear lie on the ground. Behind her, resting on three prostrate and agonized citizens, is a pile of massive blocks of stone. These are (reading downwards): [1] 'Loan 1801, 28, Millions. Income Tax irredeemably pledg'd Unfunded 56 Millions.' [2] 'Addition to Bank Stock - 49 Millions. 1801. New Taxes - Two Millions.' [3] 'Consolidated Fund to pay 500,000,000.' [4] 'Floating Contingencies'. [5] '80 Millions.' Four Ministers run off on the extreme right, only two being characterized: Pitt, a bundle under each arm, his coat pocket bulging, the coat inscribed 'Omnium' [implying the appropriation of stock]. He says to Dundas, who is in front of him: "To Lisbon to Lisbon Hal in Port". Dundas, in Highland dress, and similarly burdened, says: "Egoad cut and run in time - good Joke of Shery's" [Sheridan's]. Two gouty Ministers sit on the ground (? Liverpool and Portland, who did not resign), anguished at not being able to run off; one says: "D------n the Gout it prevents me from Running." Near them, in the foreground, four rats with human heads are nibbling; one wears a ribbon. On the left stands Fox, not caricatured, holding out to the victims of taxation a placard: 'To the Independent Electors of Westminster The Speech of the Right Honble Chas Jas Fox.' (He was no longer a Privy Councillor) In his left hand is the mirror of 'Truth' whose rays he directs upon the overburdened taxpayers. Near him stand Horne Tooke and Burdett. The former, his right arm resting on his friend's shoulder, says: "Frank - Observe these Unacquitted Felons!"; he looks through his glass at the departing Ministers. Below the title: '"C est ainsi qu'en faitent [sic]. Je vous fais mes adieux" - ' Description from the British Museum.