If he can look upon the stage it is as much as he can expect, for there is such a confused noise without of drums and fifes, clarionets, bassoons, hautboys, triangles, fiddles, bass-viols, and, in short, every possible instrument that can make a noise, that if a person gets safe from the fair without the total loss of his hearing for three weeks he may consider himself fortunate.

Contiguous to the theatres are the exhibition rooms of the jugglers and buffoons, who also between their exhibitions display their tricks on stages before the populace, and show as many antics as so many monkeys.

But were I to attempt a description of everything I saw at Bartholomew Fair my letter, instead of being a few sheets, would swell to as many quires; so I must close it.
"I shall probably soon witness an exhibition of a more interesting nature; I mean a coronation.

The King is now so very low that he cannot survive more than a week or two longer, and immediately on his death the ceremony of the coronation takes place.

If I should see it I shall certainly describe it to you." The King, George III, did not, however, die until 1820.
In a letter of September 20 to his parents he says: "I endeavor to be as economical as possible and am getting into the habit very fast.