Title derived from first line of accompanying verse.
Date from pencilled note on item.
Detached from an unidentified larger work.
Printed signatures within image, lower left: "W. Brown"; lower right: "T. Mosses".
Two stanzas of verse printed below image. First stanza: "By our rise, and Charley's fall / By our constitutional / Regard for king and country all, / Ye shall, ye shall be free! / Lay the Hunts and Cobbetts low, / Tyrants they in every row, / At Spa Fields, or at Peterloo, / Let us do, or die! / Vide Sir Robert P___'s Address to his Army, p. 20." Second stanza: "From my Box, with all its pleasures, / Torn away, and shewn no quarter; / To suit new diplomatic measures, / Banished now across the water. / In former times, I sang the hour / In revelry, and sprang my rattle; / But now my song of night is o'er, / And for ever mute my prattle! / Vide Charley's Complaint."
Peel and his new uniformed police force stand at the left of the frame in the background as a procession of characters, mostly looking down and out, striede by, with the lead figure carrying a "Petition [illegible] New Police" in one hand.