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Lettered inside image, upper right: "'There! that is what you are to gain by an alliance | with France! such are the Instruments with which | they ave determin'd the destruction of the Human- | -race! Three Thousand such Daggers are now manu- | -facturing for this Country! for where French princi- | -ples are introduced, you must prepare your hearts | for French Daggers! Nineteen Assassins are al- | -ready here, who aided & abbetted by wretches who | do not believe in a God, are preparing to scour | the filth from your Streets with the Blood of all | who are Virtuous and Honorable!!'"; upper center: "O Charley, Charley! farewell to all our hopes of Leveling Monarchs! farewell to all hoprs paying off my debts by a general Bankruptcy! farewell to all hopes of plunder!! in the moment of Victory we're trap'd & undone!!!' | 'Confusion! one of Our daggers, by all thats bloody! how the devil did he come by that? ha! what's that? Nineteen Assassins? O damnation! we're found out & all our schemes ruin'd forever!!!'"; upper left: "'The blood of the Virtuous and Honorable? them Lord have mercy upon Me!' | 'And upon Me!'"; lettered below image, lower left: "Pubd. Decr. 30th 1792 by H, Humphrey N.18 Old Bond Street"; lower center: "The Dagger Scene: or The Plot Discover'd."; lower right: "Js. Gy. dn. et ft. probono publico"