Connoisseur. Of these papers it may be truly said they are not inferior to any in the collection. That Mr. Cowper always had a quick sense of the ludicrous in character and behaviour, is sufficiently evident from many passages in the TASK; and his John Gilpin, had it appeared in the days of Colman, Thornton, Lloyd, Churchill, &c. would have been considered as an acquisition of the first importance to the lovers of humour.
Mr. ROBERT LLOYD, the unfortunate poet, was a contributor to the Connoisseur, as was also ORATOR HENLEY, which the author of the concluding paper affirms in the following words: "There are still remaining," says he, "two correspondents, who must stand by themselves; as they have wrote to us, not in an assumed character, but in propria persona. The first is no less a personage than ORATOR HENLEY, Who obliged us with that truly original letter, printed in N° 37. The other, who favoured us with a letter, no less original,— N° 70, we have reason to believe, is a Methodist teacher, and a mechanic: but we do not know either his name or his trade.”