Fletcher has been wont to preach now and then, in the
church here, (Nyon,) at the request of one or oth^r of
the ministers. But some time ago he was summoned
before the Seigneur Bailiff, who sharply reprehended
him for preaching against Sabbath-breaking and stage

"plays. The former, he said, implied a censure on the
magistrates in general, as if they neglected their duty.
And the latter he considered as a personal reflection on
himself, he having just then sent for a set of French
comedians to Nyon. Accordijpfly he forbade Mr. Flet-
cher to exercise any more any of the functions of a
minister in this country. However, one of the ministers
here has given him a room in his own house to preach
in. Here Mr. Fletcher meets a few serious persons,
particularly a number of children, two or three times a
week. And hereto his lordship has not thought proper
to interfere with respect to this mode of exhortation.
