Edmund Burke, arguing in favour of control of immigration from France, points towards the dagger he has just thrown on the floor of the House of Commons; William Pitt the younger and Henry Dundas are seated on the Treasury bench, while Charles James Fox, R.B. Sheridan and M.A. Taylor look on with alarm. Etching by J. Gillray.

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