Anti-police handbill

Transcript

Peel’s Police

RAW LOBSTERS

Blue Devils,

Or by whatever appropriate Name they may be known.

Notice is thereby given,

That a Subscription has been entered into, to supply the PEOPLE with STAVES* of a superior Effect, either for Defence or Punishment, which will be in readiness to be gratuitously [freely] distributed whenever a similar unprovoked, and therefore unmanly and blood-thirsty Attack, be again made upon Englishmen, by a Force unknown to the British Constitution, and called into existence by a Parliament illegally constituted, legislating for the individual interests, consequently in opposition to the public good.

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“Put not your trust in Princes”- DAVID.

“Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.” -FRENCH MOTTO

10th October 1830

Eliz. Soulby, Printer, 91 Gracechurch Street.