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Cartoon presumably inspired by Edmund Burke's image of the conflict with revolutionary France and its doctrines as "a Colossus which bestrides our channel" with "one foot on a foreign shore, the other upon the British soil." (Letters on a regicide peace, 1796, page 19).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
A colossus dressed only in a loin cloth and head kerchief bestrides the English Channel, with France to the Left and England to the right; the figure holds a dagger and chain in the hand on the French side, and a French flag and tree (of liberty?) in the hand extended towards the English side; a placard reading "Mandats" hangs from his loin cloth, and hordes of little demons fly over the French shore, labeled "Committe of Research", "Robespierrists", "Frerons", etc.; a procession of demons attempt to cross into England on the legs of the colossus, but are intercepted by a fierce dog on the English shore who savages them as they arrive, as Burke stands beside it with a lantern and a ratchet (noisemaker), and an angel armed with a saw endeavors to cut through the ankle of the figure.