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.
_FINIS._
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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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As Wynde in a Bladdere ypent...
[_printed in black-letter type_]
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Most closing quotes were supplied by the transcriber.
_Introduction_
Dr. Wood (pp. 442-447) [pp.442-447]
_Dumpling_ and _Key_
Note author's correction:
Page 5. line 15, _&c._ for _Barnes_ read _Brand_.
Tu mihi Mecaenas Eris! [_spelling unchanged_]
but for the Relief I find at AUSTIN's [' invisible]
and trac'd in them the exact Lineaments [' invisible]
and is call'd BRAND's to this Day [' invisible]
his real Name was _John Brand_,
[_here and above, see Author's Correction_]
not one of the King's Cooks [' invisible]
There is not so much difference between [differenee]
some of Mother _Crump_'s Sausages [' invisible]
See-and-Saw and Sacch'ry down [' invisible]
with Elegies, Pastorals, Epithalamium's
[_comma after "Elegies" invisible;
apostrophe in "Epithalamium's" unchanged_]
[->] _Pray mistake not the House; [-> represents pointing finger]
that both the Gentlemen play a good Knife and Fork
[_unchanged: error for "ply"?_]
having at that Time, Credit with the Pork-Woman
[_printed text reads "ha-/ing" at line break_]
made-away with his Wine [_hyphen in original_]
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