- ducive to Gallantry. Conjecture that Ovid
would have approved of Methodists in one Respect.
A Digression concerning the Scottish
Missionaries. Hamilton meets with an Acquaintance.
Mr. Manchester accompanies
them to the Rooms. Account of the Company.
A fashionable Clergyman. Ingenious Scheme
for dramatizing the Pulpit, and rendering
Action and Spouting a Substitute for Genius,
Learning, and Eloquence. Pulpit Exhibitions
of Parson Gilliflower. Rendezvous of the
Preacher and Gambler for comparing their
Proceeds. Hamilton and his Companions leave
Bath. Incident at Cherril Downs. They relieve
a Lady in great Distress, and convey her
to Marlborough. Page 60
CHAP. III.
History of the distressed Lady. Her former Happiness
as the Wife of a worthy and estimable
Man. Acquaintance with the Countess of
Cheatwell; who introduces Mrs. Raymond to
her own particular Friends. Mrs. Raymond begins
to have a Relish for those Parties: tries
