Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. Six Frenchmen, much caricatured, surround the coffin of 'Leopold II', which is raised on a support draped with black; enormous tears stream from the eyes, splash over the coffin, and form a pool of water which is more than ankle-deep, inscribed: 'Emigrant Tears, Emigrant Tears, Tears, Tears, Tears'. The upper part of the ornate coffin is removed, showing the profile of the dead Emperor, emerging from the pool caused by the tears of the French Princes. The central figure is the Comte d’Artois, the leader of the émigrés; he says, "oh de Pauvre, Miserable Artois, San Amis, sans Argent, sans every ting". At the foot of the coffin is an émigré, stamping with rage and weeping, who says, clutching his wig, "Arrah my Honey You might have staid to help us turn over the D­----d National Assembly, & to get our Estates, & we could have done without your Assistance". A man seated in the foreground (left), his legs crossed, weeps: "Tu-hu-hu goot got Almitash no Friends now for me oh! Got dem". Two men seated behind (right) say: "Par bleu my Dear Friend Leopold, how could you Die and leave all these Poor Princes and Dukes & Lord behind you", and "Oh My Dear Leopold, thus to leave a set of pauvres Jean foutres. Allez aux Enfers foutre, pourquoi was you to Die just now?" The death of Leopold II on 1 March 1792 was a blow to the cause of the monarchy in France and made war inevitable, but the émigrés at Coblenz rejoiced at it. Sorel, 'L’Europe et la Rév. Francaise', 1908, ii. 373; E.Daubet, 'Hist. de l’Emigration', 1904, i. 179. The satire is probably a generalized one against the rage and futile intrigues of Artois and Monsieur at Coblenz, where their chief adherents were Calonne, the comte and marquis de Vaudreuil and the duc de Gramont. It perhaps covers also the Prince de Condé and his son the duc de Provence who were at Worms. Ibid., I, 101 ff. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8068.