Whig Patriotism, or the Struggle for the Kitchen Stuff. 1812

The Regent, wearing feathered hat, garter robes, with the collar George, stands in a kitchen between a tub of Kitchen Stuff and Grenville and Grey on the left, behind whom are their followers, a crowd of aspirants for office, seen through a doorway, those behind armed with mops and brooms. Grey asks eagerly: but shall we have all the Kitchen Stuff? Grenville: Ay, all the Kitchen Stuff? The Regent points to the tub: take every dab of it, if that will do you any good. Behind him stands Moira, in uniform, saying your honour shall not part with a single pennyworth of it. There are four maid-servants wearing mob caps. Liverpool, as head cook, stoops over the tub, from which he has taken a candle end, putting a hand on the shoulder of lord Eldon (in wig and gown) who is groping in the tub. Two maids stir a pot on the fire, one using a short gold stick, the other the long wand of the Lord Chamberlain, showing that they are Cholmondeley the Lord Steward, and Hertford. Sheridan, as Harlequin, embraces the maid with a mop (Yarmouth), saying, take the advice of an old friend and don’t throw away Your mop in a hurry. Rats scamper towards the tub.
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