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N the summer of 1819, when travelling in Ayrshire with Mr. H———, preaching in the various towns and villages which we visited; arriving at a considerable town in the south, we stopped at the principial inn. After dinner, was requested the master of the inn to send for the bellman of the town, to give notice of a sermon for the evening. In about a quarter of an hour he reported that neither the bellman nor boy were at home. In a little time he returned to tell us he had seen a Drummer belonging to an English regiment then stationed in the town, whom he had asked to intimate the sermon, and that he was gone to the commanding officer to obtain his permission'. In a short time the Drummer, about forty years of age, came into our room, wearing a large Hungarian cap. He told us that the commanding officer had no objection to his intimating the sermon, and asked us what he should, say. We desired him to inform the inhabitants that there would be sermon in the middle of the town precisely at seven o’clock in the evening.

When he was gone, we wept out to take a walk along the banks of the river which ran at the back of, one of the streets. When we came to a part of the river where there was only a high wail between us and the street, the Drummer beat his drum behind it. We stopped to overhear what he would say. After intimating what we had desired him, he made the following address;