This cartoon pictures Neptune and Britannia to the right laughing at America pictured as a young man with an American flag and a cock (representing France) on his shoulder to the left. In the background the English fleet, under Augustus Keppel, and the French fleet, under D'Orvilliers out of Brest are engaged in battle. This cartoon, and the explaination accompanying it in the London Magazine, defended the action by Admiral Keppel, who was brought before a court-martial in 1778, charged with lack of agressiveness against the French in a battle in the Channel during that summer. Keppel drew the cartoon to show that his victory over the French would pave the way to untimate victory over the Americans. This copy is the original from the London Magazine, August 1778, opposite p. 339.