The city up and down, or, The candidates poiz'd

Antisemitic satire on the Jewish Naturalisation Act of 1753 and the 1754 general election, with candidates for the City of London sitting in a fairground wheel (an "up and down") in an open space beside a river, each placed according to his current position in the ballot: Sir John Barnard, Slingsby Bethel, William Beckford (at the top in a seat numbered 1); Sir Richard Glyn (to the left); Sir Robert Ladbroke (to the right, somewhat lower and numbered 5); Sir William Calvert and Sir Crisp Gascoyne (at the bottom and numbered 6 and 7). A group of Jewish men are crowding around Calvert and promising their support; Mary Squires, the "old Gipsy", whose life Gascoyne had saved by uncovering the perjury of Elizabeth Canning, is praising him; beside her stands Vertue Hall, a young woman who had acted as witness in the Canning trial. Other bystanders praise the beer made by Calvert and Gascoyne, both brewers, and Ladbroke's gin. To the right, on the other side of the river, stands Samson Gideon wishing he could use his wealth to affect the election; the devil stands behind him regretting that Gideon cannot assist him to achieve success.