Good Republicans all, The Directory’s call Invites you to visit JOHN BULL; Oppress’d by the rod Of a King, and a God,[37] The cup of his misery’s full. Old JOHNNY shall see What makes a man FREE; Not parchments, nor Statutes on Paper; And stripp’d of his riches, Great Charter, and breeches, Shall cut a FREE Citizen’s caper. Then away, let us over To _Deal_, or to _Dover_— We laugh at his talking so big; He’s pamper’d with feeding, And wants a sound bleeding— _Par Dieu!_ he shall bleed like a pig! JOHN, tied to the stake, A grand baiting will make, When worried by mastiffs of France; What REPUBLICAN FUN, To see his blood run, As at _Lyons_, _La Vendée_, and _Nantz_![38] With grape-shot discharges, And plugs in his barges, With _National Razors_ good store, We’ll pepper and shave him, And in the _Thames_ lave him— How sweetly he’ll bellow and roar! What the villain likes worse, We’ll vomit his Purse, And make it the guineas disgorge; For your RAPHAELS and RUBENS We would not give two-pence; Stick, stick to the PICTURES OF GEORGE. No Venus of stone, But of good flesh and bone, Will do for a true Democrat; When weary with slaughter, With JOHN’S Wife and Daughter, We’ll join in a little _chit-chat_. The Shop-keeping hoard, The Tenant and Lord, And the Merchants,[39] are excellent prey: At our cannon’s first thunder, _Rape_, _pillage_, and _plunder_ The _Order_ shall be _of the day_. French fortunes and lives, French daughters and wives, Have _five honest men_ to defend ’em! And BARRAS and Co. When to _England_ we go, Will kindly take JOHN’S _in commendam_. [Illustration] No. XI. Jan. 22, 1798. We have said in another part of our paper of this day, “that though we shall never begin an attack, we shall always be prompt to repel it”. On this principle, we could not pass over in silence the EPISTLE TO THE EDITORS OF THE _Anti-Jacobin_, which appeared in the _Morning Chronicle_ of Wednesday, and from which we have fortunately been furnished with a motto for this day’s paper.