The secure and luxurious retreat which he had, some months ago, prepared for himself was awaiting him.

He took the Auditorship, and resigned his other places.

Smith became Chancellor of the Exchequer.

A new commission of Treasury issued; and the first name was that of Tankerville.

He had entered on his career, more than twenty years before, with the fairest hopes, young, noble, nobly allied, of distinguished abilities, of graceful manners.
There was no more brilliant man of fashion in the theatre and in the ring.