Pitt, tall and very thin, and wearing the old-fashioned dress of a (quack) doctor, addresses Bonaparte (not caricatured), dressed as Consul. He says, hat in hand (pointing to a rent sack of guineas (left) inscribed 'Mint-Seed \ T. Y), why I tell you Doctor Buonaparte, nothing can effect a complete deliverance but my Prescription of Mint Seed it is the most Efficacious Remedy in the World'. Bonaparte stands full-face, turning his head in profile to Pitt; he points with his sword to two pyramids of cannon-balls (right), in his left hand are three balls. He says: "I deny that Doctor, my Pills are far more certain in thier operation &amp; much quicker in their effect, for instance you have been months in attempting to deliver Italy &amp; I have delivered her in a Day, but I refer you to Dr Melas &amp; Dr Kray, who have both tried my Pills, &amp; found them irresistable, therfore Dr if you do not immediatly acknowledge the superiority of my Pills by Mahomet [see BMSat 9253] I will make You". From Pitt's pocket issue a forceps inscribed 'Income Tax' and a paper: 'Consultation on the power of Mint Seed'. Behind him and on the extreme left stands Dundas dressed as the zany who accompanied the quack doctor, but in tartan and with a Scots cap; he bangs on a salt-box to produce rough music. From his pocket protrudes a bag labelled: 'Mint Seed for my own practice'. He says: "Hoot Mon, I never knew a Countryman of mine but would prefer the Mint Seed to aw the Republican Pills i the Warld."
<p><br>On the right a grotesque man, wearing trousers and a short loose shirt (? Desaix), fires a short blunderbuss point-blank in the face of a gaping and terrified Austrian officer, probably Melas (who asked for an armistice after Marengo, 14 June). Kray was defeated by Moreau in the German campaign.  10 July 1800
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<br>Hand-coloured etching
1800<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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