John Bull the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike Uncle Sam later, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. John Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg
John Bull (1800 ship) John Bull (1800 ship) "John Bull" was a French vessel that from 1800 became a British privateer operating out of Jersey. She entered the "Register of Shipping" in 1800, and her captain, John LeGeyt, acquired a letter of marque on 4 February 1800. His successor, Noah Le Sueur acquired on 29 July 1801. The size of her crew for these two letters is such that it is clear that "John Bull" was a privateer. After the resumption of war with France, Noah Le Sueur acquired a new letter of marque on 16 July 1803. Her crew was one-tenth the size