whole, the individuals that composed it, would not be found
deficient in good manners and decorum. 'But let us have recourse
to experience (said I) -- Jack Holder, who was intended for a
parson, has succeeded to an estate of two thousand a year, by the
death of his elder brother. He is now at the Bath, driving about
in a phaeton and four, with French horns. He has treated with
turtle and claret at all the taverns in Bath and Bristol, till
his guests are gorged with good chear: he has bought a dozen
suits of fine clothes, by the advice of the Master of the
Ceremonies, under whose tuition he has entered himself. He has
lost hundreds at billiards to sharpers, and taken one of the
nymphs of Avon-street into keeping; but, finding all these
channels insufficient to drain him of his current cash, his
counsellor has engaged him to give a general tea-drinking to-morrow
at Wiltshire's room. In order to give it the more eclat,
every table is to be furnished with sweet-meats and nosegays;
which, however, are not to be touched till notice is given by the
ringing of a bell, and then the ladies may help themselves
without restriction. This will be no bad way of trying the
company's breeding.'

'I will abide by that experiment (cried my uncle) and if I could
find a place to stand secure, without the vortex of the tumult,
which I know will ensue, I would certainly go thither and enjoy
the scene.' Quin proposed that we should take our station in the
music-gallery, and we took his advice. Holder had got thither
before us, with his horns perdue, but we were admitted. The tea-drinking
passed as usual, and the company having risen from the
tables, were sauntering in groupes, in expectation of the signal
for attack, when the bell beginning to ring, they flew with