His last act, before going out of office, in 1783, was to procure for Dr.Burney the appointment of organist at the chapel of Chelsea.
We have spoken of the dislike of these excellent women for Sheridan and Fox.

In Sheridan's case Burke did not much disagree with them.
Their characters were as unlike and as antipathetic as those of two men could be; and to antipathy of temperament was probably added a kind of rivalry, which may justly have affected one of them with an irritated humiliation.

Sheridan was twenty years younger than Burke, and did not come into Parliament until Burke had fought the prolonged battle of the American war, and had achieved the victory of Economic Reform.

Yet Sheridan was immediately taken up by the party, and became the intimate and counsellor of Charles Fox, its leader, and of the Prince of Wales, its patron.

That Burke never failed to do full justice to Sheridan's brilliant genius, or to bestow generous and unaffected praise on his oratorical successes, there is ample evidence.