Sir Robert Peel leads a queue for a coach but is told by the keeper of the coach-office, James Abercromby (Speaker of the House of Commons) that the coach has already gone. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.

Also waiting are Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Lord F. Egerton and Sir William Follett. The radical, C. Buller, his arms crossed, has a smug countenance. The scene refers to a somewhat farcical occasion when Lord Eliot brought before the Commons the question of Spanish policy. When nobody rose to begin the debate a decision was passed that effectively ended the debate