Fox and norfolk meet on the pavement outside brookes's. Fox (left), much caricatured, with his shaggy hair standing on end and stockings slipping down, says, with an expression of angry despair: "scratch'd off! - dishd! - kick'dout! - dam'me!!!" norfolk (right), with fingers outspread in dismay, answers: "how? what! - kick'd out? - ah! morbleu! - chacun a son tour! morbleu! morbleu!" fox holds in his right hand a paper: 'list of privy council c. J. Fox', the name scored through. From the pocket of his bulging waistcoat hangs a paper: 'whig toasts & sentiment[s] sovereignty of people - jacobins of ireland - french'. Under norfolk's left arm is his baton of hereditary earl marshal; from his coat-pocket hangs a paper: 'honours list ld lieutenant of yorkshire] colonelship of militia'. Both wear small bonnets-rouges. Behind, brooks's is indicated with the balcony; only one house separates it from the gateway of st. James's palace, at which pitt (right) and dundas (left) stand as sentinels, in grenadier uniform (with the addition in dundas's case of a tartan plaid), each before his sentry box, and facing each other in profile. On the gateway (right) is a placard: 'proclamation against sedition & treasonable meetings'; on each sentry box is a proclamation headed 'gr'. On pitt's box: 'whereas. For carrying secret correspondence with ye french - god sa. . '; on dundas's box: 'whereas. Apprehension of traitors. God save ye king'. 12 may 1798
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1798. Dimensions: Height: 276 mm; Width: 360 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Collection: British Museum. Meeting of Unfortunate Citoyens. (BM 1868,0808.6731)
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