Beggar’s Opera  linked First Lord of the Treasury Robert Walpole with the notorious mobster  Jonathan Wild , Walpole used  his influence to have the sequel  Polly  banned. In Henry Fielding ‘s  Tom Thumb  (1730),  Covent Garden Tragedy  (1732), and  Pasquin  (1736) the playwright once more aimed his poisonous pen at the Walpole,