'I saw the Man, that saw the Man, that said he saw this wondrous Sight': Mediating the Spectacle of George III's Coronation in the Newspapers

As I have seen it, I declare I would not have missed the Sight upon any Consideration. The Friendship of Mr. Rolles, who procured me a Pass-Ticket, as they call it, enabled me to be present both in the Hall and the Abbey; and as to the Procession out of Doors, I had a fine View of it […] I wish you had been with me: But as you have been deprived of a Sight, which probably very few that were present will ever see again, I will endeavor to describe it to you as minutely as I can, while the Circumstances are fresh in my Memory; though my Description must fall very short of the Reality. (Letter from a Gentleman to his Friend in the Country, containing a circumstantial Detail of every Particular that passed at the Coronation, St. James’s Chronicle, 24-26 September 1761)