Fox (left), as Satan, stands with the Prince of Wales; he is addressing the serried ranks of the 'Majority', in front of whom stand four officers, each holding a standard: the Duke of Portland (right) in profile to the left wearing a ducal coronet, holds a standard inscribed 'Belial'; next is North holding a standard inscribed 'Mammon' and decorated also with the points of the compass, the letter 'N' pointing west towards Fox; he wears (incorrectly) a baron's coronet.   Next stands Burke, his standard inscribed 'Moleck the Sublime &amp; Beautifull'; he wears a Jesuit's biretta (cf. BMSat 6026) decorated with a rosary, and large spectacles.   Last (left) stands Keppel, dressed as a sailor in trousers; his standard is inscribed 'Asmodeus or Julias the 27th', one of many allusions to the battle of Ushant on 27 July 1778, which gained him the name of Admiral Lee Shore, see BMSat 5992, &amp;c. Behind these four stand men in close ranks holding pikes, freely sketched. The front rank is inscribed with the word 'Majority' four times repeated.
<p><br>Fox, from the knee downwards, has the legs of an animal terminating in cloven hoofs. A fox's brush hanging below his coat is faintly indicated. He wears a military hat surmounted by the figure of a small dragon with a forked tongue; on the front of the hat is a fox. From his left wrist hangs an oval mask of his own features, smiling. He stands in profile to the right, scowling and saying to his followers:
<br><br>"Will ye submit your necks &amp; chuse to bend 
<br>the supple knee? ye will not if I trust 
<br>to know ye right ... 
<br>Jar not with liberty, but well consist
<br> Who can in reason or in right assume 
<br>Prerogative o'er suck as live by right 
<br>His equals if in power &amp; splendor less 
<br>In freedom equal. . .
<br>Much less to look for adoration to th' abuse 
<br>Of those Imperial titles which assert 
<br>Our being ordain'd, to govern not to serve"
<br><br>The Prince of Wales, also in profile, stands on the extreme left. He wears a crown or coronet surmounted with his three ostrich feathers, and rests the point of his sword on the ground. He holds Fox's arm and tramples under foot a paper inscribed 'Ich Dien'.  22 January 1784
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<br>Etching
1784<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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