To bring this directly to you:  know that no man can make a figure in this country, but by parliament.  Your fate depends upon your success there as a speaker; and, take my word for it, that success turns much more upon manner than matter.  Mr. Pitt and Mr. Murray the solicitor-general, uncle to Lord Stormount, are, beyond comparison, the best speakers; why? only because they are the best orators.  They alone can inflame or quiet the House; they alone are so attended to, in that numerous and noisy assembly, that you might hear a pin fall while either of them is speaking.  Is it that their matter is better, or their arguments stronger, than other people’s?  Does the House expect extraordinary informations from them?  Not, in the least:  but the House expects pleasure from them, and therefore attends; finds it, and therefore approves.  Mr. Pitt, particularly, has very little parliamentary knowledge; his matter is generally flimsy, and his arguments often weak; but his eloquence is superior, his action graceful, his enunciation just and harmonious; his periods are well turned, and every word he makes use of is the very best, and the most expressive, that can be used in that place.  This, and not his matter, made him Paymaster, in spite of both king and ministers.  From this draw the obvious conclusion.  The same thing holds full as true in conversation; where even trifles, elegantly expressed, well looked, and accompanied with graceful action, will ever please, beyond all the homespun, unadorned sense in the world.  Reflect, on one side, how you feel within yourself, while you are forced to suffer the tedious, muddy, and ill-turned narration of some awkward fellow, even though the fact may be interesting; and, on the other hand, with what pleasure you attend to the relation of a much less interesting matter, when elegantly expressed, genteelly turned, and gracefully delivered.  By attending carefully to all these agremens in your daily conversation, they will become habitual to you, before you come into parliament; and you will have nothing then, to do, but to raise them a little when you come there.  I would wish you to be so attentive to this object, that I, would not have you speak to your footman, but in the very best words that the subject admits of, be the language what it will.  Think of your words, and of their arrangement, before you speak; choose the most elegant, and place them in the best order.  Consult your own ear, to avoid cacophony, and, what is very near as bad, monotony.  Think also of your gesture and looks, when you are speaking even upon the most trifling subjects.  The same things, differently expressed, looked, and delivered, cease to be the same things.  The most passionate lover in the world cannot make a stronger declaration of love than the ‘Bourgeois gentilhomme’ does in this happy form of words, ‘Mourir d’amour me font belle Marquise vos beaux yeux’.  I defy anybody to say more; and yet I would advise nobody to say that, and I would recommend to you rather