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got his opera on the stage, he should be entirely at my service. Upon my telling him that my time for remaining at Na- ples was very short, that I should even then have been on the road in my way home, but for his opera, which I so much wished to hear; that besides ur- gent business in England, there was great probability of a war, which would keep me a prisoner on the continent: he, in answer to that, and with great ap- pearance of sincerity, said, if after I re- turned to England, any thing of impor- tance to my plan occurred, he would not fail of sending it to me.
In short, I went away in high good humour with this truly great composer, who is indisputably one of the first of his profession now alive in the universe; for were I to name the living composers of Italy for the stage, according to my idea of their merit, it would be in the following order; Jomelli, Galuppi, Pic- cini, and Sacchini. It is, however, dif-
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