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ingly, while I entered them in my pocket- book.
He still retains a few words of the Eng- lish language, which he had picked up during his residence in London, and en- tertained me a great part of the day with accounts of his reception and adventures there, he repeated a conversation which he had had with Queen Caroline about Cuzzoni and Faustina; and gave me an account of his first performance at court to his late majesty George the IId. in which he was accompanied on the harp- sichord by the princess royal, afterwards princess of Orange, who insisted on his singing two of Handel's songs at sight, printed in a different clef, and composed in a different stile from what he had ever been used to. He told me of his journey into the country with the Duke and Dutchess of Leeds, and with Lord Cob- ham; of the feuds concerning the two operas; of the part which the late Prince of Wales took with that managed by the
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