(with the exception of the Turks

[2]

and your humble servant) you were in very good company. I defy Murray to have exaggerated his Royal Highness's opinion of your powers, nor can I pretend to enumerate all he said on the subject; but it may give you pleasure to hear that it was conveyed in language which would only suffer by my attempting to transcribe it,

[and]

with a tone and taste which gave me a very high idea of his abilities and accomplishments, which I had hitherto considered as confined to

manners

, certainly superior to those of any living

gentleman

[3]

.