Royal Navy sailors from the Leander drinking and carousing with prostitutes on Point Street, Portsmouth, in peace time after the Napoleonic Wars. The Coxwain's Carousal. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.

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