pective, from
the Blair of Athol. The Pretender's Popery. Murder! Fire!
Where! Where!----178. Taking Carlise, catching an eel by the
tail. Address of a Bishop, Dean, and Clergy. Swearing to the
P----r, &c. Anathema denounced against those parents,
Masters, and Magistrates, that do not punish the Sin at
Stokesley. A Speech, &c. A Parallel between the Rebels to K.
Charles I. and those to his successor. _Jane Cameron_ looked
killing at _Falkirk_.----179. Let Stocks be knighted, write,
Sir Bank, &c., the Ramhead Month. A Proof that the Writers
against Popery, fear it will be established in this Kingdom.
A Scheme wisely blabbed to root and branch the Highlanders.
Let St. Patrick have fair Play, &c.----Of ORATOR HENLEY I
have not been able to collect any biographical details, more
interesting than those which are to be found in Warburton's
notes to Pope's Dunciad: He was born at Melton Mowbray, in
Leicestershire, in 1692, and was brought up at St. John's
College, in the University of Cambridge. After entering into
orders, he became a preacher in London, and established a
lecture on Sunday evenings, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, and
another on Wednesday evenings, chiefly on political and
scientific subjects. Each auditor paid one shilling for
admission. "He declaimed," says Warburton, "against the
greatest persons, and occasionally did our poet (Pope) that
honour. When he was at Cambridge, he began to be uneasy; for
it shocked him to find he was commanded to believe against
his own judgment in points of religion, philosophy, &c.: for
his genius leading him freely to _dispute all propositions_,
and _call all points to account_, he was impatient under
those fetters of the free-born mind." When he was admitted
into priest's orders, he thought the examination so short
and superficial that he considered it "_not necessary to
conform to the Christian religion_, in order either to be a
deacon or priest." With these quixotic sentiments he came to
town; and "after having, for some years, been a writer for
the booksellers, he had an ambition to be so for ministers
of state." The only reason he did not rise in the church, we
are told, "was the envy of others, and a disrelish
entertained of him, because _he was not qualified to be a
complete spanie