An English Regency naval captain with news of victory is met by an excited crowd at an inn. Captain Bowsprit waves his bicorne and a captured French flag from a post chaise. "Nip Cheese Portsmouth" on the carriage door. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford.

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