Fox, dressed as a watchman, his lantern in his right hand, walks away (right) looking slyly towards a barrel of 'Gunpowder from Bedford Square' on the extreme left. He says, his right forefinger against his nose, "Matters is now in a proper Train Egad its high time for me to Shirra" ['Sherry off' is to run away.  Grose, 'Dict. Vulgar Tongue', 1796.], off. On the barrel sits Bedford, wearing a spencer (see BMSat 8192); he claps his hands at Horne Tooke, who is laying a train of powder from a powder-horn. Behind Bedford, his right hand resting on his shoulder, Lauderdale stands on the cask, wearing a bonnet-rouge and saying, "Now we are safe go on with it". A paper, 'Lauderdale agt Errol', protrudes from his pocket. Against the barrel lies a firebrand. Sheridan, behind Fox, kneels down, applying a lighted match to a second train of powder. Thelwall ('Norwich Lectures' protruding from his pocket) and Stanhope, who holds a dark lantern, have laid a third train on the right. Thelwall lights a match at Stanhope's lantern. These three trains of powder lead respectively to three doors in a gothic building which forms a background. Above the door on the left is the word 'Constitution', surmounted by a crown. The centre door is that of the 'House of Commons', the third (right) that of the 'House of Lords'.  20 June 1797
<br>Hand-coloured etching
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<p>Print made by: Isaac Cruikshank
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<dl><dd>Published by: S W Fores</dd></dl></div>
1797<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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