"Orator" Henley exemplifies the hack writer and ambitious clergyman paradigms. When he first arrived in London, he met Curll, for whom Henley produced typical Grub Street hack work between 1720 and 1725, including his "compleat linguist". Henley also became a spy in Robert Walpole's secret service, joining the whigs more to satisfy his ambitions than for ideological purposes. However, he was unable to achieve his goal of living in City decadence this way, so he broke from the Anglican Church and became a dissenter. He opened up his own "Oratory" and took the nickname "Orator" Henley. With the earnings from the Oratory's entrance fee, the sale of his books, and some government payments, Henley managed to survive, but he became increasingly impoverished over time. His eccentric oratory techniques inspired satirical attacks on him in the Grub Street Journal by Pope and his circle. It is interesting to note the sudden increase in dedications to nobility in the early 1730s in his publications.