Engraving (coloured impression) by Gillray. Three busts on pedestals under two pictures: Fox, very lifelike, without inscription, between' Demosthenes against AEschines' (left) and 'Cicero against Cataline' (right), both of whom look straight before them, frowning severely, as if outraged at their new companion. Above Demosthenes is 'Justice': a picture of Catherine II, raising a dagger to stab the to the heart of the Sultan, who lies on his back, his sabre and a bag of '16000000 Roubles' beside him. On the right is 'Moderation': the Empress in back view stands facing a wall-lamp of 'Moldovia Bessarabia Wallachia' over which she stretches her stout arms with widespread greedy fingers. Between the pictures and above Fox is a circle surmounted by an imperial crown and inscribed 'Conjugal Love A Cure for the Haemerroidical Cholic'. It encloses a noose of rope, and another rope is looped around the exterior of the circle, indicating Catherine's complicity in the murder of his husband Peter III. Catherine ordered a bust of Fox to be placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero. The visit of Adair to Russia and his intrigues against the British embassy there increased the belief that Fox was acting against British interests. Rose, 'Pitt and the National Revival', pp. 622-4. Wraxall, 'Memoirs', 1884, i. 202, ii. 34. 'Political Memoranda of the Duke of Leeds', ed. O. Browning, p. 204. The verses on the plate are reprinted (with slight alterations) in the 'Anti-Jacobin' of 12 Feb. 1798 as 'Written ... by an English Traveller just returned from Petersburg'. They are attributed to Pitt by James Boswell un., on the authority of Pitt's nephew. C. Edmonds, 'Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin', 1890, xxi, 99-101 (reproduction). The print is said to have given much pleasure to George III. Grego, 'Gillray', pp. 158-9. Wright and Evans, No 76. Reprinted, G.W.G., 1830. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VI. 8072.