Society for the Reformation of Manners Society would pay others to bring prosecutions, or bring prosecutions on its own account. A prominent supporter of the Society was John Gonson, Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the City of Westminster for 50 years in the early 18th century. He was noted for his enthusiasm for raiding brothels and for passing harsh sentences, and was depicted twice in William Hogarth's "A Harlot's Progress" series of paintings and engravings. In around 1770, the Society denounced Covent Garden as: The Society sought and gained the patronage of both Church and Crown: John Tillotson, the Archbishop
18th-century French literature de Sade (the Marquis de Sade) (1797); "Le Sopha- conte moral" ) ("The Sopha - a moral tale") by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1745), and "les Bijoux indiscrets" ("The indiscreet jewels") (1748) and "La Religieuse" ("The Nun") by Diderot (1760). The novel of feelings appeared in the second half of the 18th century, with the publication of "Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse" ("Julie, or the New Heloise"), in a novel in the form of letters, written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1761). It was modelled after the English novel "Pamela" by Samuel Richardson, which was the best-selling novel of the century,