Hand-coloured etching. The Lord Mayor, wearing his gown, has risen from his chair at the head of a table laid with gold plate, the upper end of which, with the three principal guests, is on the right, to push back with his mace a crowd of unwelcome civic guests. The Prince of Wales is on the Mayor's right; he faces a lady wearing jewels and feathers; next her is (?) the Duke of Cumberland. Both Princes are in uniform. Other would-be guests crowd in behind the two Sheriffs, trying to advance from the left. The Mayor says: "stand off Stand off if I invited the two principal Staunch feeders, I shall not allow the whole Pack". One Sheriff says, looking over his shoulder: "Come on my lads we shall have rare sport, Well make a desperate Attack at the Baron of Beef". A grinning parson, slim and smartly dressed, says: "We'll show his Hignness what a desperate Knife and Fork City Chaplins can play". Only the gate-crashers are caricatured.