VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Perfons of all ranksj as well in carnages as equeftrians and 
pedeftrians, joined in the crowd ; but Vv^hat was the purpofe 
of this cavalcade, or to what circumftances it owed its 
origin, I am flill at a lofs to know. Gloria church, which 
is rather neat than rich, was decorated with various flowers 
(in the difpofal of which fome tafte was difplayed), and mofl: 
brilliantly illuminated. I obferved that the multitude ge- 
nerally flopped here, in fucceflion, and employed themfelves 
in fome religious ceremonies, fuch as praying and flnging 
hymns, before they returned to the city. This kind of 
parade was continued the whole day ; the better fort of peo- 
ple, however, made their appearance only in the afternoon. 
Returning with the reft of the crowd, after it was dark, to 
the town, I perceived a fmall church, in one of the bye 
ftreets, richly ornamented and elegantly illuminated. As I 
faw men, women, and children, ftruggling for entrance, 
I joined in the throng out of mere curioflty, and with no 
little difficulty made my way in ; but all the fatisfadion I 
reaped from being thus fqueezed and joftled was, feeing 
fuch as could gain admiflion fall on their knees, and praying 
with more fervor, to appearance, than real devotion. On 
one fide of the church ftood a fliabby ill-looking fellow, 
H 2 felling 
