At six I waited upon my new friend, Sir Thomas M'Kenney, and met a party of fourteen.... In the evening we had music, in which every one occasionally joined. I was called upon to sing, or tell a story, and after much entreaty I sat down to the piano-forte, and touched a few notes of a love song. Surrounded as I was with beauty, I sang it with feeling, and had the applause of the ladies. As it was late I would have retired, but I was a fresh actor in the scene, and the men became clamorous for another song. I thought I had touched the sensibility of the ladies, and that was enough. Like Timotheus I changed hand, and sang - "Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain,” &c. The applause was loud, fresh wine was ordered, and we began the evening anew. << less