Engraving (coloured and uncoloured impressions) by Isaac Cruikshank. Burke, a colossal figure, lunges forward and to the right, a dagger in each hand. Behind, the House of Commons is indicated, empty except for the Speaker (Addington) in the background, raising his arms in dismay, and Fox in the middle distance, who flees, looking over his shoulder to say, "D—m he's got the French Disorder". Burke frowns; a scroll issues from his fiercely closed lips: 'Plunderers Assassins Republicans Villians Cut Throats Levellers Regicides Lovers of Disorder Exporters of Treason & Rebellion These are Articles they Deal in'. A satire on the famous dagger scene during the debate on the Alien Bill on 28 Dec. 1792, when Burke said it was his object 'to keep the French infection from this country; their principles from our minds and their daggers from our hearts'. 'Parl. Hist.' xxx. 189. In this speech Burke acknowledged his indebtedness to Fox, but said that 'from the moment hesaw him countenancing the proceedings in France. . . no public connexion could subsist between them. . .' Ibid., p. 181. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII. 8285.