quired  for  him  a  reputation  which  extended  beyond  the  garden-
walls  of  Purley,  and  procured  him  other  benefactors  hardly  less
generous  than  its  large-hearted  owner.      At  every  successive
crisis  in  our  liberties, — when  tyranny  was  so  firmly  in  the  ascen-
dant that  the  hour  demanded,  not  a  champion,  but  a  victim, —
all  eyes  were  turned  on  the  man  who  had  braved  the  terrors  of
Privilege  ;  and  Home  Tooke  always  responded  to  the  call,  less
eagerly  and  less  boisterously  as  age  and  wisdom  grew  on  him,
but  with  the  same  constancy  and  self-possession  as  of  old.     He
subsisted  till  past  sixty  upon  means  that  were  small  and  pre-
carious ;  but  at  length  the  people,  mindful  of  the  hardships
which  he  had  undergone  in  their  cause,  resolved  that  so  much
of  his  life,   as  was  passed  outside  Newgate  and  the  Tower,
should    be   passed   comfortably.     Liberal   subscriptions, — fol-
lowed, as  time  went  on,  by  substantial  legacies, — made  him  richer
than  he  would  have  become  if  he  had  been  permitted  to  wear  the
one  gown,  or  had  never  thrown  off  the  other. '     City  merchants,
and  Cornish  Dissenters,  could  refuse  nothing  to  one  whose  pro-
test against  the  coercion  of  America,  by  fire  and  sword,  had
landed  him  in  a  prison  from  which  he  did  not  issue  until  he  had
left  his  health  behind  him  ;  and  who  had  been  placed  in  jeo-
pardy of  the  gallows  by  his  declared  determination  that  he  would
not  cease  his  advocacy  of  parliamentary  reform,  as  a  remedy  for
domestic  misgovernment,  because  we  happened  to  be  fighting
with  Jacobins  in  the  Netherlands.
