Library's copy has notes in pencil on verso identifying the various subjects of Gillray's caricature.
At head of image: Publish'd for the History of the Westminster & Middlesex Elections, Novr. 1806.
Print appeared in the volume "History of the Westminster & Middlesex elections in the month of November, 1806. London : J. Budd, 1807" as a folding frontispiece plate.
Library's copy shows no evidence of folding.
Print shows the hustings hung with two placards: 'Loyal Parishes of St Paul's and St Giles's' and 'State of the Poll - . Paul - Hood - Sheridan'. The base of the design is formed by the heads and raised arms of the mob below. Hood and Sheridan, with their supporters, are on the left of the post, Paull and his supporters on the right. The supporters wear favours (buff and blue on the left) with the names of their candidates. On the extreme left is a stout man holding a whip. Next, Hood in uniform, with his empty sleeve, turns away from Sheridan, putting his hand to his mouth to cover a smile. Sheridan stares in bewildered and horrified at the shouts of the mob. Whitbread, standing behind, puts his left hand reassuringly on his shoulder and offers him a foaming tankard inscribed 'Whitbread new Loyal Porter'. On Sheridan's left a dog, its collar inscribed 'Peter Moore', barks savagely at Paull, who stands hat in hand, right arm extended towards Sheridan, addressing the crowd: " - the sunk, the lost, the degraded Treasurer". On Paull's left is Burdett; next, and on the extreme right, is Bosville. Behind Paull and Burdett stands Cobbett, holding an issue of the 'Political Register'. These three have tickets inscribed 'Paull' in their hats. Behind Paull on the left, and watching him with a sly grin, stands the Duke of Northumberland, Sheridan's enemy. He holds a paper: 'To the Vestry of St Margaret'; in his hat is 'No Coalition'. Below the hustings some of the mob hold up their hats to cheer their candidate, others flourish bludgeons or insulting emblems. From left to right: shouts are for "Hood [four times], Hood for ever; no Picton". Then (against Hood): "Two Faces under a Hood; no False Votes." Against Sheridan: "No Placemen in Parliament; No Harlequin Turncoat; No Stage Tricks!; No Vagabond Representative; Pay your Debts; Mr Treasurer; Where's my Renters share, dam' you." Next is a group with bludgeons inscribed 'Sherry' who shout: "Sherry & Liberty"; "Sherry for Ever"; "Sherry." Next, below Paull, a group which shouts "No Paul". A pair of shears, a smoothing-iron, and a cabbage speared on a stick, are held up, with the respective shouts: "no Paul Goose"; "no Stitching Representative"; "no Cabbaging Candidate". On the extreme right are Paull's supporters, these wear bonnets rouges (coloured red and blue) with tricolour favours inscribed 'Paul'. They shout "Paul & Independence"; "Paul for Ever"; "Paul & Plumpers."