Scope and Contents An ass, heavily overladen, falls forward on its knees, in extremis, its eye closed. Pitt kneels on one knee in profile to the right, offering the ass £1 notes. These are inscribed '[Prom]ise to pay Mr Ab. Newland or Bank the Sum of One Pound. . . Bank of England', or some part of this inscription. The ass's burden consists of bundles piled up to a towering height, the upper part of which is cut off by the margin of the design, but the mass bends forward and is about to collapse with the ass....

Scope and Contents By James Sayers. Nicholls stands directed to the left, almost in profile; his left eye is closed, but he gazes through a pair of double glasses held in his right hand, his face wrinkled in a sour grimace. Rays of light stream outward from the glasses. He wears a round hat with up-curved brim, half-boots, and holds a long cane in his left hand. Beneath the design: '"get thee glass Eyes And like a scurvy Politician, seem To see the things thou dost not" - Shakespeare' Description from the...

Scope and Contents By Isaac Cruikshank. Fox, dressed as a watchman, his lantern in his right hand, walks away (right) looking slyly towards a barrel of 'Gunpowder from Bedford Square' on the extreme left. He says, his right forefinger against his nose, "Matters is now in a proper Train Egad its high time for me to Shirra" ['Sherry off' is to run away. Grose, 'Dict. Vulgar Tongue', 1796.], off. On the barrel sits Bedford, wearing a spencer; he claps his hands at Horne Tooke, who is laying a train of powder from...

Scope and Contents By James Gillray. Fox (right), a news-boy, ragged and unshaven, stands in profile to the left, his right hand on the knocker of the gate of the 'Treasury'. He wears a bonnet-rouge on the front of which is a tricolour placard: 'Daily Advertiser' (like those worn by news-boys); his horn is thrust through his belt. He shouts: "Bloody-News! - Bloody-News! - Bloody-News!! - glorious-bloody News for old-England! - Bloody News! - Traitrous- Taxes! - Swindling-Loans! - Murd'ring-Militia's.' -...

Scope and Contents By Richard Newton. A burlesque of Gillray's 'Malagrida', driving post, the action being more violent. Lansdowne's coach (left) is driven by a French ragamuffin, wearing a bonnet-rouge and tricolour cockade, who lashes the galloping horses with revolutionary fury. Lansdowne, sly and sleek in his peer's robes, leans from the window raising a threatening fist, to say: "Drive you dog! Vite, Vite, I shall be too late, he'll alter his mind get away you Fellows you clog the Wheels charity begins at...