Cartoon on the French plans for an invasion of England, 1798, The Storm rising - or - the Republican Flotilla in danger (title on object), Cartoon on the French plans for an invasion of England, February 1798. A French armed raft sailing under the flags of 'Liberty' and 'Slavery' four English men (Whigs: Bedford, Sheridan, Fox and Tierney) are pulled towards the land with a cable and a windlass, at the same time a storm (Pitt) blows it with high waves smoothly off the coast. At Brest on the other side of the Channel, a violin-playing devil dancing on a guillotine., print, print maker: James

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