Philanthropic consolations, after the loss of the slave-bill

William Wilberforce and Bishop Horsley revel indecorously with two grossly caricatured black women. Wilberforce and one woman face each other sitting cross-legged on the bolsters at opposite ends of a settee; both smoke cheroots. The woman wears a large straw hat over her turban, her breasts are uncovered. On the ground by Wilberforce is a torn pamphlet: 'Tryal of. . . & . . . [names illegible] convicted of Perjury in the case of Captn Kimber'. On the right the fat bishop embraces another woman who is poised on his knee, holding up a wine-glass. Behind him and on the extreme right is a table on which are books: 'Rochesters Jests', 'Charity covereth a Multitude of Sins' (open), 'Humanity a Masque', 'Mathematick', 'Ghost of Clarence', and a paper: 'Defence of Orthodoxy, better late than never'. A caricatured black boy (left) brings in a tray of filled glasses.