Stupidity and Ill Breeding

Sun 23 Aug 1778: At seven, I preached in our room and, at one, on the quay at Plymouth. The common people behaved well; but I was shocked at the stupidity and ill-breeding of several officers, who kept walking and talking together all the time, with the most perfect unconcern. We had no such Gallios in the evening at the Dock, though the congregation was four times as large. Surely this is an understanding people; may their love be equal to their knowledge.