Exhibition of a democratic-transparency, with its effect upon patriotic feelings / Js. Gillray invt. & fect.

Print shows the members of the Secret Committee of the Commons seated round a table examining documents relating to the United Irishmen and other revolutionary societies partially obscured by a large illuminated transparency divided into four equal sections showing scenes of revolutionary rapine and bloodshed, with captions "Plundering the bank," "Assassinating the Parliament," "Seizing the crown," and "Establishing the French government." Members of the Whig Opposition are shown fleeing in the foreground: Erskine, clutching a brief-bag, Fox, M. A. Taylor, Norfolk, Tierney, Sheridan, Nicholls, Sir J. Sinclair, Burdett, Hastings, and Bedford.