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The Anchor Brewery

playing a horn

'Mount Vesuvius

View of the White Tower at the Tower of London

A corporate body under the operation of the Royal Commission Finish:Stretched The Anchor Brewery'A corporate body under the operation of the Royal Commission', c1835. A fat Lord Mayor sits in the stocks. On the right Lord John Russell attacks him. Satire alluding to the concern of the City about possible loss of its ancient privileges by the Royal Commission on Municipal Corporations.

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