One night, a court official pays a clandestine visit to Gulliver. He tells him that two of the Lilliputian Emperor's advisers—Skyresh Bolgolam, the high-admiral, and Flimnap, the high-treasurer—are plotting to have him arrested, tried, and executed. Technically speaking, Gulliver is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors—treason, no less—for urinating on the royal palace. Of course, Gulliver only relieved himself on the palace to put out a large fire; he thought he was doing the right thing. But his enemies at court have seized on this as a pretext for destroying him. They're fiercely jealous of Gulliver for his leading role in the defeat of the Blefuscans and want to get back some of the power and influence they believe he has taken away from them.
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