A satire on the Westminster election in November 1806 and on the candidacy of James Paull.
At right of caption title: Vide - The terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery.
Print shows a scene in the House of Commons. In the foreground is the space outside the bar, filled with supporters of Paull's petition against Sheridan's return for Westminster. These are struck by darts of fire, lightning, and smoke from the Speaker (Abbot), a diminutive figure, almost entirely composed of a huge wig. There are two main blasts, the larger directed against Paull, the other against Bosville, Horne Tooke, and Cobbett. In the former is the fiery face of Sheridan, glaring at his enemy, with flames from mouth and nostril. Paull has been thrown on to his back, having slipped from the back of a goose with the head of Burdett, on which he has ridden into the House. Paull has dropped a long document, which is blazing; this is headed: 'Petition - Humble Petition against Rd Brin[sley] Sheridan for Bribery Corruption . . .' Other papers on which he has fallen are headed 'Scr[utiny]' and 'Impeachment Marquiss Wellesley'. Behind him is his Counsel, Henry Clifford, in wig and gown, with a drink-blotched face, dropping a sheaf of papers: 'Brief - Paul versus Sheridan.' He heads a crowd of disreputable witnesses; some wearing favours in their hats inscribed 'Paul'. Behind Paull and his witnesses are the Ministerial benches filled with amused members sketchily drawn.