Gentle measures

GENTLE MEASURES or Voluntary Confessions\nLondon Pub.d by SW Fores No 50, Piccadilly Sep.r 1st 1798\nTo the/ F.S. privil. Industrie Comptoir/ Weimar.\nIrish rebels are stroked to the blood with the \"cat o' nine tails\", a scourge otherwise/ only common on the ships of war, to confess where they have hidden their pikes, pistols, carbines, in short/ their weapons. The just suffering arre/ stant is tied to two rebel pikes and during the chastisement/ the above dialogue is spoken. Most of it is easy. When the soldier/ says: you have buried weapons; so the arrestant answers they were (yes not pikes/ but only) pistols Soldier: Shut up! Arrestant only four thousand p. No thirty/ thousand. - be easy hold still guy! - a. oh dear, oh dear he'll tell you the rest/ \"O Jemine, Jemine, he'll tell you the rest there.\" You can tell right away that the chastising soldier is Pitt, that the suffering one is Fox, and that the character standing in agony is Sheridan. In the dialogue, the answers are taken from Fox's mouth, e.g. when he calls the correspondent company "worthy men",/ when he says that the delegates the Irish rebels had sent to France were all just "blind noise". So far, one might think the paper was against the op-ed position. But the pointed signature "mild means" or "voluntary confession"/ indicates the caricaturist's point of view: it is all so against the government.