aster, uses the power for his own ends. He
fills the positions at court with wretches subservient to his own
interests. "He next proceeded to seize the publick Treasure into his own
Hands, which he converted not to Works of Justice or Charity, or any
Uses for the Honour of the Kingdom, but in building stately Palaces for
himself, his Wives, and Concubines, and enriching his mean Family, and
others who adhered to him, and assisted in his Enterprizes." Lest this
reference should not be plain enough in its application to Walpole's
extravagances at Houghton, Mrs. Haywood adds in a footnote, "Our Author
might have saved himself the Trouble of particularizing in what manner
Ochihatou apply'd the Nation's Money; since he had said enough in
saying, he was a _Prime Minister_, to make the Reader acquainted with
his Conduct in that Point." Further allusions to a standing army of
mercenaries and to an odious tribe of tax-collectors--two of the most
popular grievances against Walpole--give additional force to the satire.
There is a suspicion that in the character of the young prince banished
by Ochihatou readers of a right turn of mind were intended to perceive a
cautious allusion to the Pretender.
[Transcriber's note: Quotes in paragraph in original, not block quote.]

That Walpole not only perceived, but actively resented the affront, we
may infer, though evidence is lacking, from the six years of silence
that followed the publication of the satire. Perhaps the government saw
fit to buy off the troublesome author by a small appointment, but such
indulgent measures were not usually applied to similar cases. More
probably Eliza found it wise to seek in France or some neighboring
country the safety from the malignant power of the Prime Minister that
her heroine sought in the kingdom of Oozoff.

The "Adventures of Eovaai" contains almost the last of the dedications
written in a servile tone to a patron whose favor Mrs. Haywood hoped to
curry. Henceforward she was to be more truly a woman of letters in that
her books appealed ostensibly at least only to the reading public. The
victim of her final eulogy was the redoubtable Sarah, Duchess Dowager of
Marlborough, who, when finding herself addressed as "O most illustrious
Wife, and Parent of the Greatest, Best, and Loveliest! it was not
sufficient for you to adorn Posterity with the Amiableness of every
Virtue," etc., etc., may perhaps have recalled how her shining character
had been bla