File:The Minister diving into the Secrets of the Tobacco Trade (BM J,4.85).jpg

English: Pitt is in the upper part or hopper of a 'Snuff Mill'; an artisan (left) turns the handle and from its spout emerge Pitt's legs, inscribed 'Popularity', broken in fragments. His hair stands on end, and he screams, holding up his arms; his body is inscribed 'Tobacco Bill'. Various persons connected with the tobacco trade attack and insult him. On each side stands a stout citizen puffing smoke at him from a long pipe; an artisan (right) with a shovel throws snuff at him from a basket inscribed 'Snuff'. An artisan (left) belabours him with a club (or stick of tobacco), saying, "Here's a bit of Pig-tail for you, Master Billy derry down, down, derry down." A fat man stands in the foreground (left) holding a frothing quart-pot inscribed 'True man's Entire', and a paper inscribed 'License 5s Trial without Jury open to excise Officers &c.'; he says to the man with the 'Pig-tail': "That's right give the poor Devil his due". Behind him and on the extreme left is a grinning profile. On the right an artisan belabours Pitt with a rod made of tobacco leaves, saying, "You must be prying into our secrets, must you? take that for it - you Puppy - ". Another in the foreground flings snuff into his face with a shovel. Behind him is a woman about to strike with a broom made of 'Real Virginia'; she says, "A Man! Zounds I would not give a grain of Shag for such a shabby Thing". On the extreme right are a barrel of 'Tobacco' and a grinning man holding a bundle of tobacco leaves. Beneath the title is etched: 'Addressed to the Manufacturers of and Dealers in Tobacco and Snuff, throughout Prince Pitt's Dominions, and recommended to all Publicans to hang in their smoaking Rooms, in commemoration of the extention of the Excise Laws, which took place. October the 10th 1789: with a Song to the Tune of Derry down.'

The verses follow in two columns, the first and last being:

'I A prattling young Minister, not long ago,
As proud as the Devil, we very well know,
Fell foul of Tobacconists', and thought it no sin
For Excisemen, day and night, to enter in.
Derry down, down, down, derry down.

VIII Smuggling to crush, we are told, Excise laws were made,
Not to enslave us, but to encourage fair Trade;
And yet, was Billy in France, tho' they are well bred,
For Excise they'd not scruple to smuggle his head Derry down &c.' 14 November 1789

Etching with hand-colouring