The high German method of destroying vermin at Rat-stadt [graphic].Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[22 May 1799]eng"Two ferocious Austrian hussars have decapitated the two French envoys. One (left) holds his victim feet in air, the head between the feet. The other stands still, blood spouting from his neck, while the soldier displays to the victim the head spiked on his sabre. The third (De Bry), slashed with sabre-cuts and dropping a dispatch-box, flees before a mob of soldiers. On the left is the back of the travelling carriage, with three trunks inscribed respectively: 'Roberjot', 'Bonnier', 'Jean Debry'. An open dispatch-box with papers is on the ground. After the title: '"Now you shall see! how the cruel Austrians turn'd the Heads of \ "two French Gentlemen, whose brains were deraigned.'"--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.Artist questionably identified in the British Museum catalogue as Marquis Townshend, based on the drawing for this print in the British Museum collection.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Temporary local subject terms: Military uniforms: Austrian hussars -- Congress of Rastadt, April 1799 -- Plenipotentiaries: French envoys -- Murder : decapitation -- Vehicles: carriages.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.0 x 36.6 cm, on sheet 30.0 x 39.9 cm.Mounted on leaf 20 of volume 5 of 12.