Comfort's of a bed of roses : vide Charley's elucidation of Lord C-stl-r-gh's Speech! - a nightly scene near Cleveland Row / J. Gillray invt. & fect

Print shows Fox and his wife asleep and beset by nightmares in a magnificent ducal bed. Fox extends both arms as Napoleon springs on his bed and seizes the collar of his night-shirt, the other side of which is tugged at by the ghost of Pitt who floats towards him dressed in a shroud. Pitt exclaims: "Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n!". Napoleon is leaping from a cannon inscribed 'Pour Subjuguer le Monde'. Behind it at right of the design are clouds of fiery smoke, from which emerge a forest of spears with an imperial eagle topping a banner inscribed: 'Horrors of Invasion'. An eagle whose (tricolour) collar is inscribed 'Prussia' hovers over Fox. The bed-cover is covered with a pattern of roses; from under it at left project heavy jagged thorn-branches inscribed: 'India Roses', 'Emancipation Roses', 'French Roses', 'Coalition Roses', 'Volunteer Roses'. A ghastly creature, Death, crawls from under the coverlet, which rests on the carpeted floor: a grinning skull-like jaw appears; a corpse-like arm holds up an hour-glass whose sands are almost run out. Round the arm is twined a tricolour ribbon inscribed 'Intemperance', 'Drosy [sic]', 'Dissolution'; its r. hand clutches a spear. A bull-dog, its collar inscribed 'John Bull', snarls savagely at Napoleon, resting its fore-paws on the foot of the bed: it befouls a paper: 'List of the N[ew] Broad-Bottom Administr[ation], 'Citizen Volp[one]', 'Lord Pogy' [Grenville's nickname], 'Bett Armstead' [Mrs. Fox], 'Doctor Clysterpipe', 'Miss Petty [Lord H. Petty].