Promis'd horrors of the French invasion, or, Forcible reasons for negociating [sic] a regicide peace / Js. Gy. d. & fect.

Print shows French troops marching with fixed bayonets up St. James's Street, with the Palace ablaze in the background; in the foreground are 'White's' and 'Brookes's'. The former is being raided by French troops; the Opposition is in triumphant possession of the latter. In the centre foreground a 'tree of Liberty' has been planted: a pole garlanded with flowers and surmounted by a large cap of 'Libertas'. To this pole Pitt, stripped to the waist, is tied, while Fox flogs him with birch rods. At Fox's feet lies a headsman's axe, bloodstained; on it stands a chicken with the head of M. A. Taylor. On the right is an ox with a collar inscribed 'Great Bedfordshire Ox' ( i.e. the duke of Bedford); it is tossing Burke, goaded on by Thelwall, who flourishes a document reading 'Thelwals Lectures'. Burke is dropping two pamphlets: 'Letter to the Duke of Bedford' and 'Reflections upon a Regicide Peace'. Behind the ox, Lord Stanhope holds up a pole to which is tied, by a ribbon inscribed 'Vive l'Egalite', the beam of a pair of scales; this is balanced by the severed hindquarters and head of Grenville. Lauderdale stands facing him. Behind is an advancing band of British Jacobins waving bonnets-rouges. Sheridan enters Brooks's with sacks reading 'Remains of the Treasury £', and 'Requisition from the Bank of England'. Beside the door stands a mortar and pestle filled with coronets. On the balcony stands Lansdowne working a guillotine and holding up Loughborough's wig. On the balcony is a dish containing the heads of Lord Sydney, Windham, and Pepper Arden, 'Killed off for the public good'. Behind stand stand Grafton, Norfolk, and Derby, with Erskine brandishing a firebrand in the foreground composed of the 'Magna Charta', and holding up a 'New Code of Laws'. In the street in the foreground is a basket containing the head of Dundas and a set of bagpipes; it is labelled 'To the care of Citizen Horne Tooke'. The left side of the street is filled with goose-stepping republican soldiers. Other soldiers have reached the balcony, trampling the bleeding body of the Duke of York while the Prince of Wales falls off the balcony and, the Duke of Clarence is stabbed. From a projecting lamp-bracket beside the door hang the bodies of Canning and Hawkesbury.