Two lines of verse from Shakespeare below title: ... nought shall make us rue. If England to itself do rest but true.
Print show an allegorical representation of the thesis of Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution as seen through Burke's spectacles. Fox dressed as Cromwell stands ready to strike a tree with an axe, the blade of which is labelled "Rights of man". In the tree are many emblems: a crown, a star of the Garter, a snuffer, the Holy Bible with mitre and chalice, escutcheons representing hereditary nobility and the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families. Priestley (left), mounted on a flying monster with webbed wings, tilts with a lance at these objects. Winged demons prepare to cut down some of the emblems with scissors and a scythe and a large star of the Garter is being extinguished by Sheridan who holds up an extinguisher at the end of a pole. The Duke of Portland (left) sits in profile to the right astride a cylinder inscribed: "Part of the Subscription Whig Pillar of Portland Stone intended to have been erected in Runnimede". He gazes in horror, at a demon with webbed wings and serpents for hair. The demon holds out to Portland a picture of a tree growing in a pot inscribed "Republi[ca]nism". He sits on two volumes, "Treasonable \ Seditious Serm[ons]" on which is an open book: "Rights of Man by M P. [Paine]". In front of him is a circular aperture in the ground from which rise a skull wearing a wig (and resembling Price) and the two hands of a skeleton, one holding an open book inscribed "Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace... mine Eyes ... [s]een thy Salvation" (a quotation from Price's famous sermon on 4 Nov. 1789). Cf. George.