Aquatint (coloured impression) by Gillray. A carriage (right) drives at a gallop towards the gateway of St. James's Palace; Lord Lansdowne, in peer's robes, puts his head out of the window to call to the coachman, who is lashing a pair of horses: "Drive you dog! drive! - now or never! --- aha the Coast is clearing! -- drive! drive! you dog!" He has a sly smile. The carriage is decorated with coronets, and on the door is the beehive crest of Lord Landsdowne and the motto 'Ut Ap[es] Geometriam'. The coachman and three footmen who stand behind have enormous feather-trimmed cocked hats in the French fashion, with bag-wigs. Running behind the carraige with out-stretched arms are: Fox, saying, "Stop! stop! -- & take me in, -- Stop!"; Sheridan saying, "And me too! stop", and (very small) M. A. Taylor, saying, "And me". In the background a similar carriage is driving yet more rapidly out of the Palace gateway; the tiny figures are recognizable: Dundas, the coach-man, has dropped th reins, the horses are running away; Pitt, terror-stricken, outs his arms out the windows. Both look up at a dove with an olive-branch which flies over their heads towards the gateway. In the background are part of the Palace and the houses at the SW. corner of St. James's Street. A famous print: the debates on Pitt's Russian policy (20, 27, 29 Feb. and 1 Mar., 'Parl. Hist.' xxix. 849-1000) had shaken his position; the possibility of a coalition was discussed and the King appears to have asked Lansdowne for his advice, see the latter's memorandum; Fitzmaurice, 'Life of Shellburne', 1912, pp. 385-6. Pitt alludes to a rumour of his resignation as ridiculous. J. Rose, 'Pitt and the Great War', p. 35. Lord Sydney wrote, 16 June 1791, of Landsdowne as 'in a state of great and extraordinary political violence'. 'Cornwallis Corr.' ii. 142. For Shelburne as Malagrida. A burlesque copy of the print, by Newton, was published 25 March 1797. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 139-40. Wrights and Evans, No. 77. Reprinted G.W.G, 1830. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8069.