Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor These properties were affected by

These properties were affected by the construction of Holborn Viaduct in the 1860s

J Stafford Smith

alongside which lies a sword inscribed Blucher's carving Knife

with a carriage in the foreground

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor These properties were affected by'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.