Consequences of a successful French invasion, no. III, plate 2 Me teach the English republicans to work -- scene a ploughed field Gillray, James 1757-1815 caricaturist Dalrymple, John (Sir) caricaturist London, GBR 1798 1 print; 40.5 x 43 cm London. Pub'd March 1st 1798, by Js Gillray, 27 St James's Street -- Price 6d -- Colourd 1sh 3d. 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!" Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1769-1821 Caricatures and cartoons Blacks Napoleonic Satires 2 http://dl.lib.brown.edu/napoleon Bullard E-196(2) John Hay Library 1147746028812338 still image No Copyright - United StatesCollection is open for research.