Meeting of the Monied Interest: - Constitutional Opposition to ye 10 pr. cent: - i.e. John Bull's Friends Alarm'd by the New Tax

Size 37cm x 25cm

Originally published by Hannah Humphrey etched by James Gillray from 'The Genuine Works of James Gillray, engraved by himself. Thomas McLean edition on heavy rag-paper from the original copper plates printed 1830.

Charles Fox stands, declaiming violently to his supporters, who surround him. He holds out a paper. His clenched right fist is raised. He is dishevelled and ragged, with a padlocked 'Begging Box' slung round his shoulder. Erskine stands beside him in profile to the left, holding a brief-bag. M. A. Taylor, like a small fat boy, is wearing a tricolour suit and a bonnet-rouge in the form of a fool's cap and looking up at Fox. Tierney, wearing a ragged coat, stands in profile to the right. Next Tierney stands Horne Took (he lived largely on the bounty of his friends). On the right, behind Erskine, are the Duke of Bedford, dressed as a jockey, and Norfolk, a bottle of Port in each waistcoat pocket. Derby is in hunting-dress. Nicholls peers through a glass. On the extreme right stands Burdett. On the left, outside the Foxite circle, stand four others. Sinclair, barefooted and wearing a kilt and plaid, scratches his arm. George Walpole, very thin, and wearing his enormous cocked hat with clenched fists (he had been Tierney's second and had taken a leading part in suppressing an insurrection of maroons in Jamaica in 1795). Moira stands stiffly erect. Pulteney, on the extreme left, peers through an eye-glass. Behind Fox are two silent supporters: (left) Stanhope (or perhaps Grafton) and (right) Sir George Shuckburgh, full-face.