A Chop House forgery barges and rowing boats on

barges and rowing boats on the Thames

The house had been erected by Sir Thomas Pope on the site (and had incorporated several of the buildings) of the dissolved Bermondsey Abbey

attended by hangers on of various professions

Buckingham Gate

The allusion is to Sheridan's loyalty after the breach with the whigs

A Chop House forgery barges and rowing boats onInterior view of a chop house supposed to be Dollys Chop House, Paternoster Row, near the St Paul's Cathedral end of Ludgate Hill. Two men are eating as two hungry dogs look on, whilst at another table a man sits reading a newspaper. Behind the two tables a man looks in a mirror and a waiter brings out a plate of food.