Artist: Charles Williams. Published: S. W. Fores. The duc d'Enghien (left) is spread-eagled against the trunk of a large tree, tied by wrists and ankles. Napoleon, lunging forward, stabs him with his sabre, while two ruffianly French soldiers hold up flambeaux. The scene is a dark forest, with a partly-obscured moon. The handsome young duke, who wears a star, says: "Assassin! your Banditti need not cover my Eyes, I fear not Death tho perhaps, a Guiltless Countenance may Appall your blood thirsty Soul." Napoleon says: "Now de whole World shall know de courage of de first grand Consul, dat I can kill my Enemies in de Dark as well as de light, by Night as well as by Day dare and dare I had him - hark vat Noise vas dat, ah ti's only de Wind dare again and dare - now I shall certainly be made Emperor of de Gulls". From behind (right), five little demons fly towards Napoleon; the two foremost carry between them a crown made of daggers; all have bonnets rouges, the last three wave them ecstatically. Their leader says: "This glorious deed does well deserve a Crown thus let us feed his wild ambition, until some bold avenging hand shall make him All our Own." Behind and on the extreme right. four men in armour, with shields and plumed helmets, watch in horror; one, on whose shield is a bear, indicating the Tsar, says: "Brothers! if these are the Treacherous Blood thirsty designs of this Tyrant, it is high time we united with England in one common cause for the sake of suffering Humanity, and to arrest the progress of his Infernal Machin-ations." On another shield is the Habsburg eagle, indicating Francis II; a plain cross decorates the other two. Description from the British Museum.