Well if you are not qualified to talk knowingly about Music, you can talk knowingly about Musicians at least. What you say about the boundless love of noise, & quantity of sound accords well with a great connoisseur, — the reviewer of Dr. Burney. I suppose you have read what he says about the intemperance of the commemorative Monthly Review for March last, p. 268? We have had a little of their musical gourmandise here. Upon the whole, however, it gave me considerable pleasure; particularly [Ann Selma] Storace’s singing. Locality, too, is a great matter. The same performance which, in London, would give me but little pleasure, in Colchester wd. give me a good deal. It is always a great enhancement to find any sort of pleasure where one had no right to expect it. … << less