A hackney meeting / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

Print shows the two members for Middlesex, Byng and Mainwaring, simultaneously address a meeting of freeholders from a hustings against a building (The Mermaid, at Hackney) which forms a background. From Byng's pocket issues a paper: 'Treatise on the use of Cocoa'. On the extreme left, behind Byng, stands Fox, holding Byng's hat. On the wooden barrier of the hustings are two bills, the lower part of which is concealed by the heads of the spectators, which reach across the lower edge of the design: 'Mermaid Hackney Meeting of the Freeholders for obtaining a Repeal of the odious, detestable, obnoxious, unconstitutional oppressive treasonable . . .' and 'Address to his Majesty by the Freeholders.'