L'Assemblée Nationale (sic, 1804) a été considérée comme « la caricature la plus talentueuse qui ait jamais paru », en partie du fait qu'elle colle admirablement à la réalité du propos. On notera au passage la coupe du cadre de la scène à droite, qui, sectionnant un personnage, donne le sentiment d'une « prise sur le vif ». Le prince de Galles a déboursé une forte somme d'argent pour qu’elle soit retirée de la vente et sa plaque détruite[4].
English: L'Assemblée Nationale ; —or —Grand Co-operative Meeting at St. Ann's Hill.— Respectfully Dedicated to the admirers of "A Broad-Bottom'd Administration" Js. Gillray, invt. & fect. SUMMARY: Print shows a reception given by Charles James Fox and wife for various groups and friends of the Prince of Wales, all opposed to the government. MEDIUM: 1 print : etching, hand-colored. Plate size is 337 mm × 463 mm. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Published by H. Humphrey, 1804 June 18. According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. ix, "This we have no hesitation in asserting to be the most talented caricature that has ever appeared. The king is supposed to have been executed, the republic proclaimed, and Fox, as first consul, is holding his levée at his house at St. Anne's Hill. All the leading Whigs are present, of whom the likenesses are most admirable, and in the right corner is seen a portion of the figure of the Prince of Wales. This caricature gave so much offence to the prince that he offered a large sum of money for its suppression, which being accepted, he ordered the plate to be destroyed. It was the misfortune of the prince and those by whom he was surrounded to place reliance on each other; the plate was not destroyed, it was secreted, and still exists. It will be found in the collection published by Mr. Bohn." According to the National Portrait Gallery those depicted include: Sir Robert Adair (1763–1855) Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765–1802) Henrietta (Spencer), Countess of Bessborough (1761–1821) Richard Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776–1839) George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (1753–1813) Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire (died 1816) Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt (1770–1844) Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (1748–1825) George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley (1749–1827) Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby (1752–1834) Elizabeth (née Farren), Countess of Derby (1759?–1829) Georgiana (Spencer), Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (1750–1823), Lord Chancellor Maria Anne Fitzherbert (née Smythe) (1756–1837), morganatic wife of George IV Charles James Fox (1749–1806) Elizabeth Bridget Fox (née Cane) (1750–1842) Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827), Son of George III; Commander-in-Chief of the Army George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820) George IV of the United Kingdom (1762–1830), Regent 1811–1819 Jane (Maxwell), Duchess of Gordon (1749?–1812) William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville (1759–1834), Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845), Prime Minister Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826) Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones (1765–1811) Dorothea Jordan (née Bland) (1761–1816) John Macmahon (circa 1754–1817) Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), Emperor of France John Nicholls (1745?–1832) Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk (1746–1815) James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (1748–1823), Lord Chamberlain Mary Amelia, Marchioness of Salisbury (1750–1835) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834), First Lord of the Admiralty Michael Angelo Taylor (circa 1757–1834) George Tierney (1761–1830) John Horne Tooke (1736–1812) George Walpole (1758–1835) William IV of the United Kingdom (1765–1837) William Windham (1750–1810)