A flight of wild geese flying diagonally upwards across the print from right to left; a ribbon intertwined with the birds is tied to the hind-legs of a fox, whose fore-paws are just leaving the ground, as he is borne away by the geese in their flight. The fox (Charles Fox) whose head is in the lower right corner of the print is saying, "I hope they will bear me safe to the dear Independent Congress". Above his head on the branch of a small tree sits a magpie, saying "Farewell Brother Chatter".
<p><br>From the beak of each goose issues an inscribed label. The leader of the flight says, "To America he shall go for his heart is there". The others say: "He is fitter to sit in Congress than in a British Parliament; My advice is to drop him in the Atlantic; How jovial he will be with Congress; Let us pity him, tho' he is a fox inform he is a great Goose in Policy; He bids fairer now to be the man in the moon than The Man of the People; We should have done this seven years ago."
<br>Behind a straight margin of grass is the sea, above which the birds are flying; on it are two ships flying the British flag, one of which is firing her guns; farther off (left) is a third ship.  27 August 1782
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1782<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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