Search-night, or, State-watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirators : / Js. Gy. invt. & fect.

Print shows the interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen armed with staves, batter down the upper timbers of a door. The occupants hide or flee, except Lord Moira, who stands in regimentals and cocked hat, his fingers outspread, disassociating himself from his companions. A ragged cloth covers a table in the middle of the room, on which are ink-pot and papers: a 'Plan of Invasion' with a map of 'France' and 'Ireland'. This lies across a paper signed 'yours O'Conner'. A dark-lantern stands on the open pages of the 'Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society'. Hiding under the table are (left to right): Horne Tooke, Nicoll, and Tierney. Fox and Sheridan escape up a ladder to a trap-door in the roof. Between ladder and wall (left) is an iron-bound chest filled with daggers; more daggers are heaped on the floor: beneath them are two papers: 'The Press' (the organ of the United Irishmen, started by O'Connor) and 'Bloody News from Ireland Bloody News Bloody News'; this lies across a paper signed 'Munchausen'. The Duke of Norfolk is timorously waiting his turn to escape by the wide chimney, up which Bedford is disappearing; the latter is identified by a paper hanging from his pocket: 'Bedford Dog Kennel'. Across the chimney is scrawled 'Vive l'Egalite', on either side of a bonnet-rouge. Above it are prints, bust-portraits of 'Buonapart' and 'Robertspier'. Below it is hung a broadside headed by a guillotine and the words 'Vive la Guillotin'. In the corner of the room (right) is a pile of bonnets-rouges. In the foreground rats scamper towards a large hole in the floor. Beside them are papers: 'Assignats' and 'Plan for raising United Irishmen'.