text:  To the peculiar quietude of manner and characteristic gentleness of persons of fashion in their intercourse with each other we have many concurring testimonies of impartial observers: of these the most just at once and eloquent that we remember to have read is that contained in an ever-memorable letter from a Mr Tomkins to a Mrs Jenkins attributed (with what justice deponent knoweth not) to a noble and learned lord supreme in natural theology and excitability remarkable for versatile nose and talents and distinguished for chequered fortunes and "inexpressibles" to match