120 Memoir of Tom Smith. 



all was finished to see that all was as it should 

 be, and that there were no over-charges. In 

 consequence of this yigilance, the whole ex- 

 pense was but 2,600/. It certainly gave him 

 a good deal of trouble, but it was a business 

 of much interest to him; and he felt amply 

 repaid when Lord Gardner sent him for his 

 own use his peer's ticket for the Queen's 

 coronation, wliich occurred in the next sum- 

 mer. He went early, and secured an excel- 

 lent i^l^ce next to the peeresses. Eeing so 

 advantageously placed, he made some pencil- 

 sketches of various parts of the grand cere- 

 mony, and returned home most highly gra- 

 tified. 



