He [Signor Guarducci] was so obliging as to sing me a delightful song of Sacchini's composition [...] which I accompanied on a little octave spinet or rather virginal, miserably out of tune - but he sung it divinely - such smoothness taste and expression! and the few notes he put in, so select that I was truely charmed. He treated me with 2 long and learned cadences. He says the English love only a few notes in gracing, but they must be good - that they have been of great use to him - but this is rather civil than true, I believe, for he was a very chaste singer when he arrived in England. The Italians all say now that he is the 1st in Italy and I can venture to say so with truth, as far as I have yet heard. Mansoli's voice is much dropped and his is better than ever it was in England. I have not yet heard Nicolini - who they say is nasal. He was at Siena this summer and pleased there, but is now at Lucca where they dont like him. [...]