Title and imprint from British Museum online catalog.
Lettered: "Pubd for the Satirist June 1. 1808 by S. Tipper Leadenhall Street."
Plate from the 'Satirist', ii. 337; title from the explanatory text, pages 337-43.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark with loss of title and imprint.
The interior of a chapel. The hexagonal pulpit (right), supported on a pillar, is on a level with the crowded gallery running round the building, part of two sides of which are depicted. The congregation (H.L., &c.) on the ground form the base of the design. William Huntington is preaching; the Devil clutches his shoulder, whispers into his ear, and holds up a pair of breeches and books: 'Vill.. Ser..; Village Dialogue; Evangel[ical] Magazine', while he excretes upon a crown, a mitre, and books, one being 'Hint to Public by Barrister', thus setting them on fire. Huntington says: "And behold there was a pair of Leather Breeches". On the pulpit are two bills: 'Methodist Magazine Contents Hypocrisy, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice uncharitableness, Lying &c &c &c' and 'Hawkers and Pedlars License'. The congregation are ugly and brutish, either sanctimonious, stupid, or ill-behaved. In the gallery, on the extreme left., Theodore Hook looks quizzically through an eye-glass; next him is Sheridan (identifications by T. Wright). A man sanctimoniously holding up a book open at 'Thou shalt not steal', picks the pocket of a man using an ear-trumpet and absorbed in the sermon. Below, two children fight. A man holds a bundle of 'Warra[nts for] Bastardy - Orders of Filiation' and a 'Petition.. Babes of Grace' (begging contributions for the support of the bastards). A man holds a bottle of 'Lacrym[ae] Christi', a woman one of 'Brandy'.