Text below caption title: "They never complain'd of Fatigue, but like Giants refreshed, were ready to enter immediately upon the attack! Vide Lord Ch . . c . ll. r's Speech 24th [i.e. 20th] April 1804. "Not to destroy! but root them out of Heaven." Milton.
Print shows the 'Gods' of the Addington administration (Hawkesbury, Addington, and St. Vincent) leaning down from the clouds to defend the 'Treasury' against the assault of the 'Giants', represented by different groups of the Opposition forming a pyramid in the lower part of the design. These are identified by sources as: Pitt, Dundas, Fox, Wilberforce, Canning, Rose, Long, Lord Grenville, Buckingham, Norfolk, Carlisle, Burdett, Windham, Sheridan, French Laurence, Lord Spencer, Lord Stanhope, M.A. Taylor, Lord Grey, Lord Derby, Tierney, Erskine, and Tyrwhitt Jones.