here to find him."
CHALMER'S "Biographical Dictionary."

[56] The history of the closing years of Henley's life is thus given
in "The History of the Robin Hood Society," 1764, a political
club, whose debates he occasionally enlivened:--"The Orator,
with various success, still kept up his _Oratory_, _King
George's_, or _Charles's Chapel_, as he differently termed it,
till the year 1759, when he died. At its first establishment
it was amazingly crowded, and money flowed in upon him apace;
and between whiles it languished and drooped: but for some
years before its author's death it dwindled away so much, and
fell into such an hectic state, that the few friends of it
feared its decease was very near. The doctor, indeed, kept it
up to the last, determined it should live as long as he did,
and actually exhibited many evenings to empty benches. Finding
no one at length would attend, he admitted the acquaintances
of his door-keeper, runner, mouth-piece, and some other of his
followers, gratis. On the 13th of October, however, the doctor
died, and the Oratory ceased; no one having iniquity or
impudence sufficient to continue it on."--ED.

[57] Hogarth has preserved his features in the parson who figures so
conspicuously in his "Modern Midnight Conversation." His
off-hand style of discourse is given in the _Gray's-Inn
Journal_, 1753 (No. 18), in an imaginary meeting of the
political Robin Hood Society, where he figures as Orator Bronze,
and exclaims:--"I am pleased to see this assembly--you're a
twig from me; a chip of the old block at Clare Market;--I am
the old block, invincible; _coup de grace_ as yet unanswered.
We are brother rationalists; logicians upon fundamentals! I
love ye all--I love mankind in general--give me some of that
porter."--ED.

THE MALADIES OF AUTHORS.

The practice of every art subjects the artist to some particular
inconvenience, usually inflicting some malady on that member which has
been over-wrought by excess: nature abused, pursues man into his most
secret corners, and avenges herself. In the athletic exercises of the
ancient Gymnasium, the pugilists were observed to become lean from
their hips downwards, while the superior parts of their bodies, which
they