Charles James Fox (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) flogs the exhausted horse of Hanover towards the Valley of Annihilation. Gillray references Lord Shelburne, who said: 'The sun of Great Britain will set whenever she acknowledges the independence of America'. Fox is depicted wearing Spanish leather boots and carrying a French cock, accusing him of traitorous foreign allegiances. He has cast aside the crown and the Magna Carta in his pursuit of ambition
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