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Liberal and radical politicians as ballad singers (Thomas Wakley, Charles Buller, D. W. Harvey, Joseph Hume, Lord Brougham and J.A. Roebuck) sing a song sympathetic to Canadian rebels below the window of John Bull, who proposes to drench them with the contents of the house pail. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

Two men sing from a songbook they are both holding, while a younger man has fallen asleep at the table; a young woman looks on. Engraving by T.E. Nicholson after J.M. Wright.

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Two men sing from a songbook they are both holding, while a younger man has fallen asleep at the table; a young woman looks on. Engraving by T.E. Nicholson after J.M. Wright.