Public Reform meeting : A droll and laughable account of that comical meeting which took place yesterday, in the large hall of Cockpen Palace, Grassmarket, of all the speech-cryers, ballad-singers, hawkers, tinkers, gundy-sellers and Bone-gatherers, of Edinburgh, and surrounding districts, to take into their consideration, in imitation of their superiors, the propriety of petitioning both Houses of Parliament to take off the blockade on trade, which prevents them from exercising their different vocations ; with a copy of the petition agreed to at the meeting ; as also the comical speeches which were made by the different members on the occasion ; with an account of the grand battle which took place, when stilts, sticks, stools and chairs were beating at quick time upon the skulls of the combatants, before adjourning to wet their thraples wi' a drap o' the real threepenny.
[Edinburgh] : Printed by order of the chairman, the laird of Cockpen, alias T M'Clure,
[1832]
In four columns.
Satire on the Reform meeting, in the King's Park, Edinburgh, 24th April, 1832.
'Price one penny'.
Inscription in ink at the foot of the sheet - 'June 1832'.
Great Britain Parliament
Scotland Edinburgh.