Print made by: Charles Williams. Published: C. Knight. Whitbread (left) stands outside the door of his ale-house (indicated by the chequers sign), holding up a frothing tankard inscribed 'Whit'. Fox and Sheridan (right) superintend the disgorging of guineas by Melville, who sits on a stool, vomiting into a sack inscribed 'Pro Bono Publico'; a large empty tankard inscribed 'Whitbr[ead]' lies at his side. The latter, looking very ill, is directed to the right.: he wears Highland dress; his feathered bonnet is on the ground. Pitt stands behind him in profile to the left., leaning against the ale-house wall; he is very emaciated and extremely ill. Whitbread, wearing a short apron, but not caricatured, says: "Gentlemen you may always depend on having from me the real home brew'd, such as will invigorate the Constitution - Cheer up the drooping spirits of Englishmen and make the Heart glad - None of your northen stuff thats sold over the way at the Thistle - My Sign is the King and Constitution - the real Whitbread Gentlemen." Sheridan kneels in profile to the left., facing Melville; his own pockets are bulging with coin and notes. He says: "Up with them my Dear Boy - here they come by the thousand and Tens of Thousands; Zounds! I believe his Stomach has no bottom, or if it has the Bank must be at the end of it." Fox, huge, and like a good-natured ogre, puts a hand on Melville's arm, pointing to Whitbread: he says: "Never saw a poor Man with such a load on his stomach before - the Yellow Jaundice? - 14 Years standing! never mind Harry this draught of Whitbread will quite cure you." Pitt says (prophetically): "D------n his entire, it has made me so sick that I fear I shall never recover, such a revolution in my guts! no indemnity for the past, sick! sick! sick!" In the background (right) a crowd cheers the Speaker, who sits astride a barrel supported on a pole by two draymen. He holds up a frothing tankard. They shout: "Huzza the Abbot of St Stevens for Ever." Description from the British Museum.