Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. Rats in uniform make military evolutions, &c, on a large cheese which stands outside an inn, with a projecting sign, 'Hard Cheese'. On the inn (right) is a placard: 'wanted a number of able Bodied young Men for the Suffolk Fencibles &c enquire at the Sign of the Hard Cheese.' Over the door is 'Stablin[g]'; from a window the (?) landlord looks out complacently. In front of the inn is a long line of saddle-horses with a notice: 'Saddles to let'. A number of soldier-rats fire muskets from a cavity in the front of the cheese at a large fierce cat (left). Others scamper away into holes, or rush up the face of the cheese. On the top, in a wide depression, a body of rats with muskets is being drilled. They have a large flag: 'To Honor we call you not press you like slaves'. On the top of the cheese a drummer-rat beats his drum. Description from the British Museum.