A rough visual paraphrasing of a speech made in the House of Commons on the 30th of December 1796 by Henry Dundas, at that time Secretary of War, in which he answered Charles James Fox's criticisms of the handling of the War in France by characterising his opponent as a strident paper-boy. Fox, wearing a tattered uniform, broken sandals, and a Phrygian cap pinned with a 'Daily Advertiser' tricolor, knocks on the doors of the Treasury, advertising "Bloody News! Bloody News! Bloody News!!! glorious bloody News, for old England! Bloody News! Traitrous Taxes! Swindling Loans! Murd'ring Militia's! Ministerail Invasions! Ruin to all Europe! alarming-bloody-News! Bloody-News!!!" The knocker is held in the teeth of a gorgon in the pinched-face likeness of Pitt. From above the barbed gates, a reply erupts from the Treasury "Lord! Fellow! pray don't keep such a Knocking & Bawling there; we never take in any Jacobin-papers here! & never open the doors for any, but such as can be trusted: True Briton's & such!" On the wall beside the doorway, an advertisement for a new edition of the 'Cries of the Opposition' has been pasted on the wall beside the doorway. Fox has tucked his herald's trumpet through the buttonhole of his coat, and carries a copy of the 'Paris Papers' under his left arm. In his left hand, he carries an unfurled copy of the Daily Advertiser listing a series of Wanted ads, most of which request sinecures, parliamentary pensions, or cushy governmental positions. Below the scene, following the title, the context of the satire is explained in an inscription which reads: "Vide Dundas's Speech in the House of Commons. "_for a dozen Years past, he has follow'd the business of a Daily Advertiser, daily stunning our Ears with a noise about "Plots & Ruin & Treasons & Impeachments; while the Contents of his Bloody News turns out to be, only a Daily Advertisement for a Place & a Pension." BM Satires 8981. Ex. Coll.: Minto Wilson.