 The Act revealed a disdain for Swift, Pope, Fielding, and other literary figures who had attacked his government in their works.While the "country party" attacked Walpole relentlessly, he subsidised writers and lesser-known journalists such as William Arnall and Bishop Benjamin Hoadly as well as two men he named to the role of poet laureate, Laurence Eusden and Colley Cibber.They defended Walpole from the charge of evil political corruption by arguing that corruption is the universal human condition.