Print shows Fox and Norfolk meeting outside Brookes's. Fox is saying: "Scratch'd off! - dishd! - kick'dout! - dam'me!!!" Norfolk answers: "How? what! - Kick'd out? - ah! morbleu! - chacun a son tour! morbleu! morbleu!" Fox holds in his right hand a paper: 'List of Privy Council C. J. Fox', the name scored through. From the pocket of his bulging waistcoat hangs a paper: 'Whig Toasts & Sentiment[s] Sovereignty of People - Jacobins of Ireland - French'. Under Norfolk's left arm is his baton of hereditary Earl Marshal; from his coat-pocket hangs a paper: 'Honours List Ld Lieutenant of Yorkshire] Colonelship of Militia'. Both wear small bonnets-rouges. Behind, Brooks's is indicated with the balcony; only one house separates it from the gateway of St. James's Palace, at which Pitt and Dundas stand as sentinels, in Grenadier uniform (with the addition in Dundas's case of a tartan plaid). On the gateway is a placard: 'Proclamation against Sedition & Treasonable Meetings'; on each sentry box is a proclamation headed 'GR'. On Pitt's box: 'Whereas . . . for carrying secret correspondence with ye French - God sa . . .'; on Dundas's box: 'Whereas . . . apprehension of Traitors . . . God save ye King'.
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Meeting of unfortunate citoyens / Js. Gy.inv & ft.
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James Gillray
1756-1815
Meeting of unfortunate citoyens / Js. Gy.inv & ft.
[London] : Pubd May 12th, 1798, by H Humphrey, 27 St James's Street,
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.294
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[London] : Pubd. May 12th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, .
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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