The Queen leans back in her armchair, with closed eyes, overwhelmed at the entrance of Pitt (right); Dundas holds a smelling-bottle to her nose. Pitt, much burlesqued as a post-boy in spurred boots and holding a whip, but wearing a bag-wig and ruffled shirt, rushes forward in profile to the left, shouting with a terrified expression: "They are a coming they are a coming [cf. BMSat 8141] deliver your Money your Jewels, cash, Plate, for they are a coming! a coming! give up the Rino to save your bacon." Under his left arm is a package: 'Dispatch's for W-N [sic]-P'. The Queen, from whose eye falls a stream of tears, says, "O dear must all our savings go to stop their mouths Billy! I can never part with my Jewels twill break my poor heart indeed it will Billy! O give me comfort or I shall faint." Dundas, wearing tartan, is in profile to the right, but looks slyly to the left with a covert smile. He says: "Deliver your Money for I see they are a coming what fiery caps they wear! &amp; then what long swords they have got! make haste &amp; stop their mouths. Billy my boy." On the left, behind the Queen's chair, is a group of large sacks inscribed 'R-Y-L SAVINGS', each inscribed '2,000,000' or '200,000', &amp;c. These conceal the King, except for his arms held high, with a bag inscribed '100 000' in each hand. A label floats from him: 'Here Billy! Here. Billy take this &amp; stop their mouths with! dont cry charity, better give up some than Lose all us to save our bacon.'  16 January 1798
<br>Hand-coloured etching
1798<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1798-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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