By James Gillray.
Text flanking caption title: "Let me die the death of the Righteous - and let my latter end be like his."
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Print shows a fox ( i.e. Charles Fox) hanging from a gibbet while the Conway family, as rats, dance triumphantly round him holding hands, the leader, General Conway, blindfolded and led by the nose by Shelburne. Shelburne (right) has two faces, his own looks smiling towards Conway (not a rat), saying, "Huzza! my friends - huzza - the Monster's dead, and we Full-merrily will dance, around his fatal Tree Honours thick falling, shall our steps attend, Come where I lead - to Glory we'll ascend." His other face is that of a devil; it says, "Unthinking Fools! - who will as tenderly be led by the Nose, as Asses are - but if he (at whose overthrow they rejoice) scourged them with Whips! they shall find I will chastise them with Scorpions!" General Conway, blindfolded, looks towards Shelburne and says, "What I'm - Political Innocence - to be sure - Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm the last to see what's obvious to all the World - am I? He! He! He!" Behind Conway is his brother, Lord Hertford (not a rat), saying, "All my prayr's are not in vain For I shall have my Place again." Lady Hertford, a stout lady with a rat's head, says, "He! He! He! - well - I always said that Dismal would come to be Hang'd - Ha! Ha! Ha!" while one of her daughters exclaims, "La Mama! he stinks like Poverty." Next comes a brother in regimentals, saying, "Zounds! I'm almost afraid of this Gunpowder - Guy - Fox - "though he be dead -" He holds by the hand a brother dressed as a clergyman, evidently the Hon. Edward Conway, Canon of Christchurch, who is saying, "The Year of Jubillee is come He's gone to his Eternal home." The next brother, looking up at the fox with upturned eyes, says, "Quite Chop-fallen by Heav'ns! - Ha! Ha! Ha!" The last brother, in cockaded hat, says, pointing up at the fox with his right hand, "A Nick by Jupiter! - He! He! He!" On the gallows is inscribed, "Sic transit gloria Mundi".