| Description | Includes references to having been called to London for a week; Mrs Grimston and the young gentleman; the town amusements improving in elegance, there being at present 2 Italian operas supported, that at the Haymarket being extremely well performed, Visconti being the finest singer he ever heard for execution; the composition being nothing above pretty and quite confin'd to one Taste, as he thinks all Ciampi's composit[ions] are; the Burletta or Comic Opera being acted every other night at Covent Garden; the performers all except one being of the Family Giordano, Neapolitan Strollers; besides the Dramatic persona another brother plays the Harpsichord; their voices are bad except one; every place in the boxes being taken for a month to come and the Pitt and Galleries being filled with auditors; Nicolina Giordani being a fine person, having a very agreeable voice and an inexhaustible fund of the true vis comica; making attempts to Comedy from Mrs Clive or any other woman the lowest Buffoonery; the Burletta; Nicolina Giordani being a universal linguist; Polly being a great deal mended and Sir Charles Grandison |