Artist: James Gillray. Published: Hannah Humphrey. The stage, flanked by the stage-boxes, extends across the design, the base of which is the orchestra, where the new Ministry perform. George III has stepped on to the stage from the royal box (left) and confronts Napoleon, who stands arrogantly upon clouds and points to an enormous scroll held up by Talleyrand. This stretches across the cloud to rest on the stage. The Emperor, in uniform, with spurred jackboots and wearing a large, feathered bicorne, holds a sword in his right hand and says fiercely: "There's my Term's." The King, who wears uniform with a small cocked hat and buckled shoes, holds his sword against his shoulder. He inspects the scroll through his glass, saying: " - Very amusing Terms indeed! - and might do vastly well with some of the new-made little Gingerbread kings - but WE are not in the habits of giving up either "Ships, or Commerce, or Colonies", merely because little Boney is in a pet to have them!!!" The scroll is inscribed: 'TERMS OF PEACE - Acknowledge me as Emperor - "mantle your Fleet, - Reduce your Army - Abandon Malta & Gibraltar, - Renounce all Continental Connection - Your Colonies I will take at a Valuation, - Engage to pay to the Great-Nation for 7 Years annually £1.000.000. and Pace in my Hands as Hostages the Princess Charlotte of Wales, with Ten of ye late Administration whom I shall name.' Talleyrand kneels on one knee, displaying a deformed left leg, on a cornupia which rests on the clouds that support Napoleon. He wears a long gown with a rosary (denoting the ex-Bishop of Autun); a pen is behind his ear. From the cornucopia papers, money-bags, and coin pour down on to the stage. The papers are: 'Address to the Papists'; 'Loan to the - ['Prince' implied]; 'To the United Irishmen'; 'To the London Corresponding Society'; 'The Press'; 'The Argus'; 'For the Whig Club'; 'To the Army; 'To the Navy', 'To [the] Volunteers'. Money-bags are labelled: 'Maynooth [word illegible]', 'Horne Tooke', 'Morning Chronicle', '[Cobbett's] Weekly Register', 'Thelwall.' Immediately behind Talleyrand, and also on the Napoleonic clouds crouch Arthur O'Connor, looking down conspiratorially at Fox in the orchestra below. His words extend in a long label towards Fox: "Remember m Friend your Oath, - " Our Politicks are the same!"" He holds a paper: 'at Maidstone Not Guilty - N.B - my Confederate Quigley only, was Hanged there.' Behind Talleyrand and O'Connor three desiccated corpses wearing French Grenadier's uniform hold up three eagles to each of which a banner is attached: 'Army of England', 'Army of Ireland', 'Army of Scotland'. Their caps are decorated with an 'N' surmounted by a crown. Behind them bayonets recede in perspective, their holders hidden by the peace scroll. Most of the orchestra sit facing each other at a long desk whose slopes hold their music. At its head (left) sits Grenville, the First Violin, saying "Attention!"; in his pocket is a paper: 'Broad Bottom Concert'; his music is 'Britons Strike Home'. Facing him at the opposite end sits Moira, very erect, blowing a trumpet; his music is 'See the Conquering Hero comes'. Four performers sit on each side; nearest the stage and on Grenville's left, sit (left to right) Fox, with a violin, pausing with extended bow to look up at O'Connor; his music is 'God save the King'. Next him is Lord Spencer, playing a violin, but without music Windham, also playing a violin, his music is 'Cheese Parings'. Next, and on Moira's r., Sheridan, fat and bloated, sleeps with folded arms, clasping a bassoon; his music is 'The Midwatch' [for Sheridan as the sleeping watchman]. The others, facing the stage, turn their heads in profile. Little Lord Henry Petty, on Grenville's r., wearing his Chancellor's gown, plays the triangle; his music is 'the little Jesuits Jig' [he is the son of 'Malagrida']. Next Sidmouth performs on a clyster-pipe; his music is 'Water-Gruel'. Lauderdale blows the French horn, his music is 'Brissots Delight'. Tierney, self-absorbed, plays two pipes: one inscribed 'Grenville' the other 'Fox'; his music is 'How Happy could I be with either', with another paper headed 'Borough' [he was M.P. for Southwark, and regarded as eager for office under any Government]. The rest of the orchestra are on the left, behind Grenville's back. On the extreme left. Erskine, the egotist, full face, regardless of the others, beats a drum with the mace. Lord Ellenborough stands as if conducting, holding up a rolled document: 'Bill of Indemnity' [the Bill for giving indemnity to witnesses against Melville, it was opposed by Ellenborough,'Parl. Hist.' vi. 248 f.]. Bedford plays the harp: 'Harp of St Patrick'. In his pocket is 'a Serious Ballad Burke to Duke' [Burke's 'Letter to a Noble Lord' was to his brother]. Grey, his music 'Rule Britannia', hanging over the back of Grenville's chair, plays the 'cello. The royal box is sumptuously draped, and surmounted with a crown and crossed sceptres, with the inscription: 'Ge IIId | whom God long preserve'. Behind his empty chair is the pompously projecting stomach with Garter ribbon, and hand holding the wand of the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Dartmouth. On the front of the box lies an open book: 'Shakespeare - I know You all.' Next the box and immediately behind the King is a lifelike statue of Pitt, wearing (like Petty) the gown of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. One hand rests on a pillar inscribed 'Integrity'. The high pedestal is inscribed 'Non sibi sed Patriae vixit' [the motto on the badges of the Pitt Clubs which came into existence on Pitt's death. Broadley, i. 242]. Beside the King is an anchor and rope. At the back of the stage, behind the King, is the sea with a man-of-war in full sail: 'The Royal Sovereign'. On the r. are four stage-boxes. On the level of the stage the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert sit gazing at each other; he holds his cocked hat, she has a fan with the Prince's feathers and holds a playbill: 'Shortly will be Perform'd the Farce Dolly made a Dutchess.' In the box immediately above are Horne Tooke (in clerical dress) and his friend Burdett, holding up his cocked hat. Both applaud vigorously, saying respectively 'Bravissimo!' and 'Bravo'; they look towards Talleyrand and Napoleon. The former's playbill is 'Duet on a Pair of Portraits', the latter's 'The Brentford Bully, a new Song - Liberty and Equality down with all the Prisons'. Over this box are the Prince's feathers. Next it, and above the door leading to the stage, is a small box from which Grattan leans delightedly, his playbill is 'Irish-Jig - Report of the secret Committee - Neilson told me he had Sworn Mr Grattan.' Above Grattan, in a small box at the upper edge of the design, are the Duke of Clarence and Mrs. Jordan, both grossly caricatured. Their playbill is 'Jobson & Nell'. Partial description from the British Museum.