During my confinement to my chamber, I have had leisure to extract the foregoing observations, anecdotes, and adventures from my journal, and which I present to the world as the first hints of my undertaking. If they tend in any shape to promote the study and practice of music in this country, and by that means lessen our national reproach of being _The Savages of Europe_, immersed in politics, philosophy, metaphysics, mathematics, and other sour and abstruse speculations, I shall have gained my end, and shall congratulate myself on having in some humble degree assisted the generous efforts of the great musical Doctor, and the governors of the _Foundling Hospital_, to polish and _Italianize_ the genius, taste, and manners of the _English_ nation. I shall trespass on the reader’s patience but one moment longer, to inform him that as soon as I had perfectly recovered my health, Signor _Manselli_ instituted a grand _Fête Cbampêtre_ to celebrate what he was pleased to call my victory over the flesh and the devil; and to crown the whole, the idol of my soul, the fair _Gluckinella_, was that day pleased to condescend publicly to avow her platonic harmonic passion for me; and to promise me in the most endearing manner, that if ever she entered into the holy slate of matrimony, I should be her CECISBEO. THE END. _Speedily will be published_, An ENQUIRY into the PRESENT STATE OF THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. To which will be prefixed, The OVERTURE to the last ECLIPSE of the MOON; And, a Dissertation on the Structure and Use OF THE CELESTIAL BOW, commonly called the RAIN-BOW. By JOEL COLLIER, Organist. _Avia Pieridum perago loca nullius antè Trita solo._ LUCR. ⁂ Price to Subscribers, Two Guineas; Non-Subscribers Three Guineas and an Half.