ctance; 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