A hand extends from the left margin of the design holding the bridge of a pair of spectacles: two ovals in which are bust portraits of Fox (left) and Sheridan (right) facing each other in profile, and having (especially Sheridan) the air of sinister conspirators. The rest of the print is supposed to be seen through these spectacles.   Fox, dressed partly as Cromwell, raises an axe, the blade inscribed 'Rights of Man', to strike the trunk (still intact) of the tree of (?) the Constitution (or the Crown, Church, and nobility). He wears a French cocked hat with a favour inscribed 'Vive la Nation'. 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' (see BMSat 7396, &amp;c). He gazes in horror, his hands raised, at a demon of simian appearance, with webbed wings and serpents for hair, wearing a cocked hat like that of Fox; suspended above the hat are the feathers of the Prince of Wales.  The demon holds out to Portland a picture of a tree growing in a pot inscribed 'Republi[ca]nism'; its foliage is inscribed 'Atheists \ Demagogues \ The Mob'; on the ground are a shield inscribed 'Nobility' and a crown.  The picture is 'A Plan of the new Constitution of France, the Perfection of human Wisdom recommended as a Model for Canada by the Rt' [Hon. C. J. Fox], see BMSat 7856. He sits on two volumes, 'Treasonable \ Seditious Serm[ons]' on which is an open book: 'Rights of Man by M P. [Paine]'.  Beside him lies a burning fire-brand.  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, see BMSat 7629, &amp;c). Price died on 19 April 1791.
<p><br>On the tree are various emblems: where the branches spring from the trunk is a crown; above this is a large star of the Garter which is being extinguished by Sheridan (wearing a hat like that of Fox and of the demon) who holds up an extinguisher at the end of a pole (as used in the theatres) saying, "Ca ira". Immediately above it is a large 'Holy Bible' on which rest a mitre and a chalice.  Priestley (left), mounted on a flying monster with webbed wings, tilts with a lance at these objects; from his coat-pocket protrudes a large book: 'Priestley on civil Government'. Below four escutcheons are suspended from two branches: two (left) are inscribed 'Hereditary Nobility', a flying demon is about to cut them down with a scythe inscribed 'Rights of Man'. The other two bear the arms of the Portland and Cavendish families; another flying demon is about to cut them down with a pair of shears.
<br>Beneath the title is etched:
<br><br>'......nought shall make us rue
<br>If England to itself do rest but true.
<br>Shakespeare'  12 May 1791
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<br>Etching and aquatint
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<p>Print made by: James Sayers
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<dl><dd>Published by: Thomas Cornell</dd></dl></div>
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