Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor outside John Lever's bookshop on

outside John Lever's bookshop on Broker Row

In the centre of the group is a mounted cavalry officer in uniform

J Stafford Smith

An outside staircase leads to a balcony on the first floor

'The Merry MilkMaid'

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor outside John Lever's bookshop on'Patriotic Petitions on the Convention', 1808. Four scenes: top left The Cockney Petition; top right The Westminster Petition; bottom left The Chelmsford Petition; bottom right The Middlesex Petition. A satire on the Convention of Cintra of 1808, which permitted the French to withdraw their surrounded troops from Portugal unmolested and was seen as a national disgrace back in Britain.