At right of caption title: "Mr Paull is fixed upon a rock, and be assured he will prove the fulcrum by means of which the present Broad bottomites will be Overset."--Sir F. Burdett's Speech.
At head, within image: To that last Hope of the Country, - "the New Opposition", this Representative of "Charley's Old Breeches in Danger", is Respectfuly submited [sic].
Print shows a pair of enormous breeches, formerly resting upon three ostrich feathers standing in a bed of roses. Within the seat of the breeches, members of the Ministry sit at a round table, devouring loaves and fishes. These include Lord Grenville, Lord Ellenborough, Buckingham, Lord Temple, Spencer, Windham, Erskine, Petty, Lord Holland, Moira, Grenville, Lauderdale, Sheridan, Howick, and Sidmouth. Before Grenville is a dish containing two large fish: 'Treasury' and 'Exchequer'. A dog, its collar inscribed 'Tierney', puts its forefeet on the bench, yapping at Grenville's back. On the ground beside him are three cats eating fish in a dish inscribed 'Tabbeys'; their collars are inscribed 'Bet Fox', 'Fitz', and 'Jordan'. Rats surround a dish inscribed 'Scribblers' [ministerial journalists and pamphleteers]. Larger rats in the rose-bed gnaw at the feathers which support the breeches. Two parties are trying to pull down the precariously poised Ministry: Burdett and his friends (right) and in the distance (left) the Pittites. The former use a lever which rests on the head of Paull, who sits cross-legged on a tailor's board inscribed 'The Fulcrum of the Constitution'. He is dressed as a tailor with a tape-measure: 'Broad-Bottom-Measure', which he is about to cut with the shears, not of a tailor, but of Atropos, and in his belt are two duelling pistols. This board rests on a battered 'Rock of Independence' which rises from a mound which are other emblems: a goose stands on a cabbage, hissing at the breeches. There are also mushrooms (to denote the upstart), cucumbers, and a thistle. In the foreground the ghost of Fox, weeping, emerges from a tomb, saying: "O save my Breeches, Heav'n." His tombstone is inscribed: 'Hie Jacet Pater-Broad-bottomos He lent his Raiment to cover the Needy, & to hide his Enemies from Shame, he went Naked to the Grave.' In the background is the sea-shore, and near the horizon is a French fort (right) surrounded by tiny ships. Above it, and to the right, one foot testing on clouds, the other on a blazing town, stands Napoleon, looking through a telescope at Paull and saying: "Oh! by Gar! if I could but once put My Foot upon the leaver! - I'd give their Broad-bottoms a Shake with a Vengeance!!!"