Burdett, Peel, O'Connell and Wellington in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare, suffocating John Bull with a rope; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching by A. Sharpshooter, 1829.

John Bull lies on the floor being suffocated by four politicians in favour of Catholic Emancipation: Sir Francis Burdett, Robert Peel, Daniel O'Connell and the Duke of Wellington. In the background, behind a dissecting table, stand four anatomists represented by the Catholic kings of Spain (left) and France, the Pope and the devil: the devil whispers in the Pope's ear. Far left, the King (George IV) is gagged by Lady Conyngham, a confidante of the King's reputed to be in favour of Catholic Emancipation. Right, Britannia is gagged with a plaster and is restrained at the elbows; she sits on the British lion which is also muzzled with a plaster. Suffocation with a pitch plaster was reputed to be one of the methods of murder used by bodysnatchers (see the caricature "Present mode of applying a pitch plaister!!" by Dickey Fubs, Wellcome Library catalogue no. 663319i)