I was to whistle an angel from Heaven, or you were full; though you brought out a raw nothing last year, and have taken Mrs. Jewell and a Jewess[24] this season. I hope you will, as you have kindly done, excuse this frankness in me, and give me leave to add that I will positively bet a hundred pounds upon Miss Jameson, against any singer you can name in either theatre--I might safely a hundred to one. I wish you would ponder on the contents--not now, because your cast is rather overloaded--but hereafter, when it may not be so. And now, Sir, to the last matter I shall at present trouble you with. Bickerstaff added songs to the Oracle, and brought it out by the title of 'Daphne and Amintor,' at Drury Lane, which succeeded very well. I remember a piece of Mr. Lloyd's, called the 'Capricious Lovers,' when performed in Clive's time. Every body liked the Burletta, but none were pleased with the music--which has induced me to reset it. Now, Sir, if you think it will (with the addition of my new music) fill up a vacancy, till the town fills, the vocal, instrumental, and speaking parts, are ready drawn out: the title may, and should be altered to 'The Country Girl at Court,' being the original one, viz.: 'La Contadina in Cort,' and (for a sixth night) I will attend the getting up of the musical part, and deliver up the composition to your use. If you don't want it, make no ceremony in saying so; for it will be of use to me, with my catches and glees. Have I been studying the longitude? Perhaps so; but if I have tired you, it is more than _you_ could do by _me_, were you to fill a ream of paper. "This requires no other answer, than just whether you can, with advantage to your undertaking, make use of my new composition or not. I am, Sir, with due respects, ever your friend and humble servant, "THOMAS AUGUSTINE ARNE." There is another letter from Arne to Garrick, without date; it reads as follows: