Description
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- London. Pub'd March 1st 1798, by Js Gillray, 27 St James's Street -- Price 6d -- Colourd 1sh 3d.
- Text: Description -- "A Row of English People in Tatters, and wooden Shoes, hoeing a Field of Garlic. A tall raw-boned Frenchman, with a long Queue behind, like a Negro Driver with a long Waggoner's Whip in each Hand, walking by their side. The people very sulky, but tolerably obedient & tractable for so short a Time; John Bull being a bad Lad only when you are very good to him. The Group of the hoers are, a Husbandman, his Wife, a Manufacturer, a Curate, & an Old man; -- in another Part of the Field, four other English people, a Father & Son (Husbandmen) with two Seamen, in a Yoke, drawing a Plough; a French Farmer guiding it with one Hand, & with the other flourishing & cracking a French Postillion's long Whip; a French Boy walking by the side of the Yoke with a Goad, which has a Point as sharp as a Needle. the French Hoe-driver gives his Instructions thus; "Jacques Roast-Beef, hoe straight, deep, quick & rest not." -- The Instructions of the French Holder of the Plough are --"Monsieur John Bull mon Ami." (in English) My Friend, Mr John Bull, pull hard, plough deep, trot quick, turn sudden, & rest not," -- A Messager d'Etat, (in English) A Messenger of State in his Habit of Office, with a Letter in his Hand, comes to hurry on the work for the Exigencies of War. -- In another part of the Plate stand the Farm Offices; a vast oak, withered, above them, -- A Caldron boiling, on which is engraved, Soup Maigre, with a stack of Onions & Turnips close by it. On a large Board is painted -- "Regulations of this Farm, -- "At Five o'clock in the Morning the Hogs & English Slaves are to be fed; at Twelve o'Clock at Nigh they are to be suppered, & littered up with the best Straw that the Scotch & Irish part of the Slaves can steal from the neighbouring Farms, & then locked up. But there are Holes in the Bottom of the Walls for the Hogs to go out, & get the Benefit of Fresh Air. -- Punishment of Laziness, for the first Offence, five hundred Lashes; for the second, the Guillotine. All other Crimes, except those which affect Frenchmen, are forgiven on Promise of Amendment." -- A Ballad is lying on the Ground in the English Language, entitled "Recantation of British & Irish Republican Husbandmen & Manufacturers. -- The Burden of the Song is -- "Oh, England, England! / "King, Wife, Sons & Daughters of our King, of /"whom the Sons are all brave, & the Daughters / "all beautiful: Parliament Judges, who covered / "us with Blessings, which are repaid with Reproaches. / "Clergy who taught us to die as well as to live for / "our country -- Landaff, Landaff. -- Nobles & / "Squires in whose Hospitality & Bounty we shared. -- / "St Vincent & Duncans. Merchants, Master Manufacturer[s] / "who lived as simply as ourselves, but both of us well; "how could we forget you? You would not have de- / "serted us; but we deserted you. -- But with the same / "Weapons which should have defended you, we will / "punish ourselves. We despise Life, we could submit to / "Misfortune, but cannot bear the Consciousness of / "not having stood or fallen with you. Oh England, / "England, Country of every Bliss, for ever farewell!"
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Citation
"Consequences of a successful French invasion, no. III, plate 2"
(1798).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Napoleonic Satires from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232477/
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