[Rome]September 24 [1770].

There was a grand Funzione at the Santi Apostoli, on the account of the reconciliation of the Pope and the King of Portugal.

It was at this church that I first saw his Holiness, and a great number of Cardinals, and heard Te Deum.

There were two large bands of music, and an immense crowd. The music was composed by Signor Mosi. Cristofero sung charmingly; the airs were pretty, but the choruses poor.

In the evening the outside of cupola, church, and colonnade of St. Peter, together with the Vatican palace, were finely illuminated, which affords a spectacle to the inhabitants of Rome, not to be equaled in the universe.

And in the balconies, next to the street, at the palaces of most of the Cardinals, besides illuminations, there were concerts of very numerous bands of instrumental performers; but chiefly at the residence of the Portuguese Ambassador,

where the hands employed amounted to above a hundred, and these continued their performance all night. However, this music, though in the open air, was too noisy for me, and I retreated from it early, in order to have my ears foothed

with more placid founds at the Duke of Dorset’s concert.