Part 4
"This was a great Eye-sore, and Heart-burning to some lubberly Abbots, who lounged about the Court; they took it in great Dudgeon they were not invited, and stuck so close to his Skirts, that they never rested till they outed him. They told the King, who was naturally very hasty, that Sir _John_, made-away with his Wine, and feasted his _Paramours_ at his Expence; and not only so, but they were forming a Design against his Life, which they in Conscience ought to discover: That Sir _John_ was not only an Heretic, but an Heathen; nay, worse, they fear'd he was a Witch, and that he had bewitch'd his Majesty into that unaccountable Fondness for a _Pudding-Maker_. They assured the King, that on a _Sunday_ Morning, instead of being at Mattins, he and his Trigrimates got together hum jum, all snug, and perform'd many hellish and diabolical Ceremonies. In short, they made the King believe that the Moon was made of Green-Cheese: And to shew how the Innocent may be bely'd, and the best Intentions misrepresented, they told the King, That he and his Associates offered Sacrifices to _Ceres_: When, alas, it was only the Dumplings they eat.
"The Butter which was melted and poured over them, these vile Miscreants, called _Libations_: And the friendly Compotations of our Dumpling Eaters, were called _Bacchanalian Rites_. Two or three among them being sweet tooth'd, would strew a little Sugar over their Dumplings; this was represented as an _Heathenish Offering_. In short, not one Action of theirs, but which these rascally Abbots made criminal, and never let the King alone till Sir _John_ was discarded; not but the King did it with the greatest Reluctance; but they made it a religious Concern, and he could not get off on't." _Diss. pag._ 10.
All the World knows that the _Tory_ Ministry got uppermost, for the four last Years of the Queen's Reign, and by their unaccountable Management, teaz'd that good Lady out of her Life: Which occasion'd the D--n in his eleventh Page to say; "Then too late he saw his Error; then he lamented the Loss of Sir _John_; and in his latest Moments, would cry out, Oh! that I had never parted from my dear _Jack-Pudding_! Would I had never left off Pudding and Dumpling! then I had never been thus basely poison'd! never thus treacherously sent out of the World!----Thus did this good King lament: But alas! to no purpose, the Priest had given him his Bane, and Complaints were ineffectual."
This alludes to Sir **** Imprisonment and Disgrace in the Year ---- Nay, so barefaced is the D--n in his Allegory, that he tells us, in his 12th Page, _Norfolk_ was his Asylum. This is as plain as the Nose on a Man's Face! The subsequent Pages are an exact Description of the Ingratitude of Courtiers; and his Fable of the _Court Pudding_, Page 13. is the best Part of the whole Dissertation.
One would imagine the D--n had been at Sea, by his writing Catharping-Fashion, and dodging the Story sometimes Twenty-Years backwards, at other Times advancing as many; so that one knows not where to have him: for in his fifteenth Page, he returns to the present Scene of Action, and brings his Hero into the Favour of K---- _Harry_, _alias_ **** who being sensible of his Abilities, restores him into Favour, and makes Use of his admirable Skill in Cookery, _alias_ State Affairs.
"Not one of the King's Cooks could make a Pudding like Sir _John_; nay, though he made a Pudding before their Eyes, yet they, out of the very same Materials, could not do the like: Which made his old Friends, the Monks, attribute it to Witchcraft and it was currently reported the Devil was his Helper. But good King _Harry_ was not to be fobb'd off so; the Pudding was good, it sat very well on his Stomach, and he eat very savourly, without the least Remorse of Conscience." _Diss. Page_ 15.
This seems to hint at the Opposition Sir **** met with from the contrary Party, and how sensible the K---- was, that they were all unable to hold the Staff in Competition with him.
After this the D--n runs into a whimsical Description of his Heroes personal Virtues; but draws the Picture too much _Alla Carraccatura_, and is, in my Opinion, not only a little too familiar, but wide of his Subject. For begging his Deanship's Pardon, he mightily betrays his Judgment, when he says, Sir _John_ was no very great Scholar, whereas all Men of Learning allow him to be a most excellent one; but as we may suppose he grew pretty warm by this Time with the Booksellers Wine, he got into his old Knack of Raillery, and begins to run upon all Mankind: In this Mood he falls upon _C---- J----n_, and Sir _R---- Bl----re_, a pair of twin Poets, who suck'd one and the same Muse. After this he has a Fling at _Handel_, _Bononcini_ and _Attilio_, the Opera Composers; and a severe Sneer on the late High-Church Idol, _Sacheverel_. As for _Cluer_, the Printer, any Body that knows Music, or _Bow Church Yard_, needs no farther Information.
And now he proceeds to a Digression, which is indeed the Dissertation it self; proving all Arts and Sciences to owe their Origin and Existence to _Pudding_ and _Dumpling_ (_i.e._) Encouragement. His _Hiatus_ in the 20th Page, I could, but dare not Decypher.
In his 22nd Page, he lashes the Authors who oppose the Government; such as the _Craftsman_, _Occasional Writer_, and other Scribblers, past, present, and to come. _The Dumpling-Eaters Downfal_, is a Title of his own Imagination; I have run over all _Wilford_'s Catalogues, and see no Mention made of such a Book: All that Paragraph therefore is a mere Piece of Rablaiscism.
In his 23d Page, he has another confounded Fling at Foreigners; and after having determinately dubb'd his Hero, the Prince of Statesmen, he concludes his Dissertation with a Mess of Drollery, and goes off in a Laugh.
In a Word, the whole Dissertation seems calculated to ingratiate the D--n in Sir **** Favour; he draws the Picture of an able and an honest Minister, painful in his Countries Service, and beloved by his Prince; yet oftentimes misrepresented and bely'd: Nay, sometimes on the Brink of Ruin, but always Conqueror. The Fears, the Jealousies, the Misrepresentations of an enraged and disappointed Party, give him no small Uneasiness to see the Ingratitude of some Men, the Folly of others, who shall believe black to be white, because prejudiced and designing Knaves alarm 'em with false Fears. We see every Action misconstrued, and Evil made out of Good; but as the best Persons and Things are subject to Scandal and Ridicule; so have they the Pleasure of Triumphing in the Truth, which always will prevail.
I take the Allegory of this Dissertation to be partly Historical, partly Prophetical; the D--n seeming to have carried his View, not only to the present, but even, succeeding Times. He sets his Hero down at last in Peace, Plenty, and a happy Retirement, not unrelented by his Prince; his Honesty apparent, his Enemies baffled and confounded, and his Measures made the Standard of good Government; and a Pattern for all just Ministers to follow.
Thus, gentle Reader, have I, at the Expence of these poor Brains, crack'd this thick Shell, and given thee the Kernel. If any should object, and say this Exposition is a Contradiction to the D--n's Principles; I assure such Objector, that the D--n is an errant _Whig_ by Education, and Choice: He may indeed cajole the _Tories_ with a Belief that he is of their Party; but it is all a Joke, he is a _Whig_, and I know him to be so; Nay more, I can prove it, and defy him to contradict me; did he not just after his Arrival and Promotion in _Ireland_, writing to one of his intimate Friends in _London_, conclude his Letter in this Manner?
_Thus Dear **** from all that has occur'd, you must conclude me a _Tory_ in every Thing, but my Principle, which is yet as unmoved, as, that I am,_
Yours, _&c._
This Letter, his Tale of a Tub, and in a Word, all his Invectives against Enthusiasm and Priestcraft, plainly prove him to be no _Tory_; and if his Intimacy, not only with Sir **** himself, but most of the prime Men in the Ministry, cannot prove him a _Whig_, I have no more to say.
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NOTES TO _DUMPLING_
Pp. [ii].2-[iii].25. The information on Brand, Braund, and Marsh is confirmed by records in the Willesdon Public Library and by Lyson's _County of Middlesex_.
P.2.30-31. Carey also attacks the Freemasons and Gormogons in _Poems_, ed. Wood, p. 118.
P.5.3. Old Mr. Lawrence is mentioned several times (see particularly _Key_, pp. 16-17). There was a farmer Lawrence of 70 in Willesdon at the time, but I have found no direct connection with an antiquary, with Swift's Namby Pamby talk (see _OED_ under _Namby Pamby_) and his _Wilsden Prophecy_; nor with Jonathan Richardson (see note to _Key_, p. 17). On another level, the laziness attributed to Swift (_Key_, p. viii) and the gridiron here connected with the Kit Cat club are both commonly associated with Saint Lawrence.
P.6.11-12. "Bull and Mouth" refers to a tavern known as the Boulogne Mouth (John Timbs, _Clubs and Club Life in London_ [London, 1872], p. 529).
Pp.6.13-9.6. Knight of the Gridiron: Walpole was a member of the Kit Cat club, which originally met at the pie shop of Christopher Cat in Shire Lane. The "Second Edition" probably refers to the fact that the Order of the Bath was reintroduced for Walpole's benefit in June 1724. (See also _Key_, p. 19.) There is intentional confusion with Estcourt, who as providore of the Beefsteak club wore about his neck a small gridiron of silver and was made a Knight of Saint Lawrence. The Knights of the Toast were an associated group. The gridiron is a symbol both of gormandizing and of the roasting of Saint Lawrence.
P.9.9. J[acob] T[onson], the publisher, founded the Kit Cat club which also met at Tonson's home in Barns Elms, and in Hampstead (which was only a few miles northeast of Willesdon).
P.11.15-18. King John is reputed either to have been poisoned or to have died from overeating at Swineshead Abbey (18-19 October 1216).
Pp.14.15-16.24. See also _Key_, pp. 25-26. King Harry, at this point, would appear to be George I, with either Walpole or Marlborough as Sir John Pudding. Nevertheless, there are carefully interpolated overtones regarding Falstaff and Hal. "One knows not where to have him" (_Key_, p. 25) is one of several apt Shakespearian allusions in the work.
Pp.17.25-18.26. In _Dumpling_, pp. 17-18, and _Key_, pp. 26-27, the references are to the writers Sir R[ichard] B[lackmore] and C[harles] J[ohnso]n; opera in the hands of Nicolino, Senesino, Handel, Buononcini and Attilio; the high-church idol, Sacheverel (d. 1724); the _Craftsman_ (founded to attack Walpole) and the _Occasional Writer_ (Bolingbroke's 4 pamphlets of Jan/Feb. 1727); and finally the discredited music printer, Cluer. Carey's relationship to opera was ambivalent, but in _Mocking is Catching_ he strongly attacked Senesino.
P.24.5-29. Matt. Prior (d. 1721), despite his aristocratic pretensions, had been earlier associated with the Rummer Tavern. He was a member of the Kit Cat club until he became a Tory for Dumpling.
P.[32].28. E[dmund] C[url] of the "ADVERTISEMENT" was a publisher notorious for stealing material. Carey complained frequently of his writings having been "fathered" by others.
NOTES TO THE _KEY_
Title Page. "J. W.": Dr. Wood suggests this is the fictitious John Walton of the "Proposals" at the end of _Dumpling_. My own preference is for Dr. John Woodward, the famous antiquarian and physician. As late as Fielding's "Dedication" to _Shamela_, Woodward was being mocked for suggesting that the "Gluttony [which] is owing to the great Multiplication of Pastry-Cooks in the City" has "Led to the Subversion of Government...." (See Woodward's _The State of Physick and of Diseases_ [London, 1718], pp. 194-196 and 200-201. Compare this with _Dumpling_, pp. 22-23, on the _Dumpling-Eaters Downfall_, also pp. 9 and 16, and _Key_, p. 17.) Swift deals with "repletion" in _Gulliver's Travels_ (ed. Herbert Davis [Oxford, 1941], pp. 253-254 and 262).
P.iii.1-22. L[intot] was Pope's publisher. B[ooth], W[ilks], and C[ibber] were the managers of Drury Lane. _The London Stage, Part 2: 1700-1729_, ed. Emmett L. Avery (Carbondale, Ill., 1960), shows that J. M. Smythe's _Rival Modes_ was first played 27 January 1727 at Drury Lane; John Thurmond's pantomime _The Miser: Or Wagner and Abericock_ was first played 30 December 1726 at Drury Lane; and Lun's pantomimes _Harlequin a Sorcerer: With The Loves of Pluto and Proserpine_ and _The Rape of Proserpine_ were first played at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre 21 January 1725 and 13 February 1727 respectively.
P.iv.16-25. The preface ends on a similar note to Carey's _Of Stage Tyrants_ (p. 108).
P.[v].3-4. To "it never wants a Father," compare _Of Stage Tyrants_ (p. 107).
P.vi.1-9. Swift's "old Bookseller" had been T[ooke] (though there may be overtones here regarding Tonson). His new publisher was [Benjamin] M[otte].
Pp.viii.24-ix.14. The "Hackney Writer out of _Temple Lane_" could very well be Carey. (See Carey's _Records of Love_ [London, 1710], pp. 175, 93, and 104.)
P.13.6-9. Carey's poem "The Plague of Dependence" cautions: "You may dance out your shoes in attendance;/ [while you] .... wait for a court dependence" (p. 90).
Pp.14.7-15.2. Here Carey cleverly ties in Swift's surgeon Gulliver, through the "Pancake of Rabbets" (_Dumpling_, p. 17), with the topical and notorious case of Mary Tofts, who in November 1726 was "delivered" of fifteen rabbits. All the people mentioned were connected with this case. Nathaniel St. Andre was the surgeon and anatomist to the King, and Cyriacus Ahlers the King's private surgeon; John Howard was the apothecary. The imposture was finally brought to light before Sir Richard Manningham (the famous man-midwife who probably influenced Sterne) and Dr. James Douglas. Among the many contemporary pamphlets on this subject is one by Thomas Braithwaite.
Pp.16.14-17.13. The following is a very revealing quotation from records in the Willesdon Public Library under F. A. Wood [not Dr. F. T. Wood], _Willesdon_ I, 99: "These nurse children must have been sent from workhouses round Willesdon ... the parish must have become a baby farm.... The large number of deaths between 1702 and 1727 ought to have caused some official enquiry, which probably did take place, as after 1727 they soon ceased altogether."
P.17.14-22. See Jonathan Richardson, _Works_, Strawberry Hill Press (London, 1792), pp. 198-199: "...had the honour of a letter ... the term _Connoisance_ was used.... I must not conceal the name it was Mr. Prior." Richardson, a frequent visitor to Hampstead, painted both Prior and Pope. His essay on "The Connoisseur" was frequently published.
P.18.6-22. See also p. 24 and _passim_. Robert Walpole was born and died at Houghton in Norfolk; he was helped up by Marlborough but lost power with him under the Tories. Walpole went to the Tower for five months in 1712 before going to his home county, where Defoe calls him "King Walpole in Norfolk."
P.24.19-20. The "Fable of the _Court Pudding_" (see also _Dumpling_, pp. 13-14) ties together both meanings of the scatological Latin-English pun on the title page of _Dumpling_.
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