I can recollect nothing else—so adieu!

One word, however, more, by way of my last speech and confession on

this subject. Should you demand, now that I have seen, in their own

social circles, the two first men of letters of our day, how, in one

word, I should discriminate them; I answer, that I think Dr. Johnson

the first Discourser, and Mr. Burke the first Converser, of the

British empire.