Sir Charles Wetherell collapsed in a chair surrounded by both smiling and weeping fellow politicians; referring to reactions to the Plan of Reform which disenfranchised sixty boroughs. Coloured lithograph by J. Doyle, 1831.

Wetherell's constituency, Boroughbridge, was included in the sixty to be disfranchised. He says: "All over my friends! just in time to hear my last speech and dying words! But don't look so grave about it, I assure you we treat the matter in our house as if it was an excellent joke to be sent out of the world with a dose of Russell's purge! is so droll; & then, we are to have such a merry funeral." Eldon mournfully says: "Poor Boroughbridge! how is it with you?", the Duke of Cumberland says: "Facetious to the last! - It is quite effecting!". On the table is a medicine bottle labelled: "Russell's purge"