You ask my opinion of the Commemoration Performance - have a little patience, my dear friend, & you shall have it in print. Wd you believe it, that after expecting little more than noise & confusion, as I believe I told you in my last letter, things went so much better, & afforded me so much more pleasure & satisfaction than I expected, that in a kind of Rodemontade gratitude I told Lord Sandwich I had some notion of writing an acct of the Commemoration Performances for immediate publication, & showed him the sketch of some such promise wch I intended putting into the Papers, to prevent other from spitting i'th' Porridge? He jumpt at the Idea... << less