10 Memoir of Tom Smith. 



agreed tiiat they slioulcl toss up for tlie but- 

 cher. Mr. Smith won, and carried him off; 

 but he was obliged to keep a very sharp eye 

 on his man until he had voted. Mr. George 

 Eose, the '' old George Eose" whom Cobbett 

 used to abuse so much, was on a visit to 

 Mr. Smith soon after; he pronounced this as 

 pretty a piece of electioneering as ever he had 

 known, and he had the credit of understand- 

 ing such matters. 



Among the visitors to Mr. Smith was, on 

 one occasion, the Due de Bourbon (the father 

 of the unfortunate Due d'Enghien), who came 

 for a little sport, accompanied by a servant 

 carrying two double-barrelled guns : he was 

 then a guest of Lord Elcho, at South Warn- 

 borough, not far from Shaldon. Though very 

 young at the time, Tom well remembers the 

 stately royal emigrant, and the tears that he 

 shed at seeing, in the dining-room at Shaldon, 

 a picture representing the capture of the Bas- 

 tille. 



