The singing here is the most extraordinary I ever heard, - there is no Instrument, but the People attempt to sing in Parts - with such Voices! such expression and such Composition! They to Day, in honour, I presume, of the Dean, performed an Anthem. It was really too much to be borne decently - it was set by a Weaver, - and so very unlike any thing that was ever before imagined, so truly barbarous, that with the addition of the singers trilling and squalling, - no Comedy could have afforded more Diversion: Mrs Rishton and I Laughed ourselves sick - though we very much endeavoured to be grave... << less