Published: William Holland. Napoleon (left), sword in hand, and wearing his huge bicorne, forces fat Dutchmen into tiny boats, each with a gun in the bows, representing the flotilla of gunboats. He says to a Dutchman who steps into his boat, but clenches his fists and scowls over his shoulder resentfully, "Come, Come Sir, - No grumbling I insist on your embarking and destroying the modern Carthage - dont you consider the liberty you enjoy - and the grand flotilla that is to carry you over!" The man answers: "D-n such Liberty and D-n such a flotilla!! I tell you we might as well embark in walnut shells." The men and boats recede in perspective, dotted on the ocean; the boats resemble walnut-shells, in which each man squats with difficulty. All are fat civilians smoking pipes, miserable and angry, but all wear military caps or helmets, with tricolour plumes, and two have muskets strapped to their backs. Two clasp their hands in agonized prayer. Description from the British Museum.