Ambassadors Homeward Bound Two carriages, both containing diplomats, pass each other on the road. The carriage on the right contains the English ambassador; he wears a blue coat and a round hat and is smiling. The pair of galloping horses are driven by a rider wearing top boots, mustard-coloured breeches, a short red coat and a black jockeys cap. He too is smiling. The coach on the left is marked 'F.R.' and contains a depressed looking French ambassador, wearing a red coat edged with gold and a bicorn hat with a revolutionary cockade. The horse is walking and is ridden by an equally glum coachman wearing a red coat, cocked hat with a revolutionary cockade and the large 'milk-churn' boats often worn by French riders. Piled on top of the French carriage are three green bags labelled 'Ultimatum', 'Ultimatum No 30', 'Ultimatum No 50'. 18 May 1803