Engraving (coloured impression) by Isaac Cruikshank. The Prince of Wales stands (Ieft) turning from, but looking towards, Fox and Sheridan, ragged sansculottes, who kneel (right) on the farther side of a rail inscribed 'Hitherto shall ye go & No Further'. In the background and on the extreme left is the King, saying, "Bring hither the fatted Calf we will rejoice & make merry for I have found the sheep that was lost". The Prince says, "I know ye not, Vain Proffligates. fall to your prayers; how ill White hairs become a fool & jester...", the quotation continues, written as prose, and slightly altered, to adapt it to the change from 'Old man' to "Vain Proffligates'. It ends: "The tutors & the Feeders of my Riots; vd Henery 4 [Second Part, v. v]". "I will return to my Father & say unto him. Father I have Sinned against heaven & in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy Son make me as One of thy Hired Servants" Fox and Sheridan weeping, making imploring gestures towards the Prince. From Fox's coat-pocket projects a letter with a tricolour cockade: 'Your affectionate Brother Egalité'. From Sheridan's pocket issues a paper: 'After you have caused the same Disturbances in Your country that we have long enjoyed here, fly to the Arms of your Dear Brother Condorcet'. Both are saying: "We have often Devised matter enough to keep him in Continual Laughter, the wearing out of Six fashions, which is four terms, or two Actions; & he has Laughed without Intervalliums, a lye with a strong Oath, & a Fest with a Sad Brow, has done with a Fellow that never had the ache in his Shoulders, we have seen him Laugh, till his Face has been like a Cloak ill laid Up; v Henery 4 (Incorrectly quoted from v. i.)". Below, the title: 'No more Coalitions no more French cut Throats'. The Prince had ranged himself against the Foxites in an effusively loyal speech on the proclamation against seditious writings (May 1792). He was anxious to serve abroad ('Letters of Sir G. Elliot', ii. 125), and his hopeless financial position made him wish for reconciliation with the King. After the breach in 1792 he did not again meet Fox and his friends till a dinner at Carlton House in Mar. 1797. 'Diaries of Lord Glenbervie', 1928, i. 134; 'Farington Diary', i. 201. Partial description from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII. 8311.