The National Register.
London, England, 1815-03-12 00:00:00

About seven o'clock, before the soldiers had •arçived at lord car-
tiereagles, a mob, consisting e j not above 40 07 010 person*,
_broke,
the tower windows of leis house, and then ward leisurely messy.
We have, however, to lament a melancholy -• occurrence which took
owe opposite to the house of Mr. Robinson. Our readers will have
perivived above, that the windows of the house of that gentleman
had been completely demolished on Monday night. Some persons
Assembled again this evening, and between nine and.ten o'clock pro-
ceeded to further. mischief, ,bv flinging stones at the shutters : some
soldiers, who, it now appeared, had been stationed in the parlonri.
feed from the windows : severs shots were distioctly heard, but five
of them were supposed to be the report of blank cartridges. Two
shots, however, unfortunately took effect. and a man and woman
were killed. The crowd then dispersed ; flue man who was struck
was quite lifeless, having been shot through the head. His name
Vysc, a young midshipman; he was struck by some slugs on the
kft side of the head, which broke the skull. The %lowan, who it
appears had also been drawn to the spot from idle curiosity, was
likewise shot through the head. Upon examination, it was ascer-
tained that her name was Watson, and that her lodgings were in
Chalks street, Long-acre, She was the widow of a sailor, ant had
lett her fends with a promise to return in half an hour.
k The soldiers fired front the house into the office of Mr.
_Eaton, the
surveyor, %thieli is opposite, and ►therein five or six clerks were then
writing, and a ball is now lodged in the shutters of the drawing,
room. It is supposed they filed five or six rounds of blank car,
tridges. A servant belonging to Lord Somerville was wounded io
the fare, and one man, who apparently from his habit, was a-stone
mason, was carried as far as StAird street, and there abandoned to
his tide ; he was found lying on the railing of Mr.. Kerby, the honks
seller, covered with blood, being desperately wounded in the head
and other places ; he was ronveyed.in a coach to St. George's Ho*,
pital, in a very doubtful state.
In various parts of town, there were also riotous proceeding* this-
evening, and doors, windoses, and the railing before the houses.
were demolished without mercy.,-Among the houses attacked.were,'
those of Lord King and Sir W. Rowley, in Wimpoleadreet ; Los 1,
Bathurst, Mansfield street ; and several others whose houses, were.
mistaken for those of the supporters of the obnoxious Corn
In, no one instance did the destroying parties exceed fifty in num-
ber. Acting in detachments they distracted and eluded the attesa
tion of the Guards, and the whole of the mischief was effected in
the momentary absence of the military..
In the City also there was some appearance 6f a disposition to
riot. After dark a mob collected soddenly in the vicinity of Fins.
bury-square, whence they proceeded down Chiswell-street to Mr.
Whitbread's brew-house, where they destroyed the whitlow' with •
shower of stones, and instantly dispersed, having heard that some
Blakely were at hand.
Shortly after the Hopse
people proceeded down Si
Corn Bill, and threat(

supported.. The crown
of Cotnmotts, where the

that an adjourninent

expectation of meeting ,
menced an attack on the

mins which laces St.

themPelves hooting the sal

amtiseil
• Cur■

In the evening, two persons of respectable appearance, assembled
in the crowd in Palace-yard, invited the multitude to retire with
them into St. James's Park. where they proposed haranguing their
friends upon the true nature of the Corit lays. The proposal vas
instantly accepted, and a vast collection 01-pea:sons of every descrip-
tion followed the volunteer orators until they reached an elm, upon
the branches of which they soon mounted. Here they commenced
an appeal totlie passions and feelings of the people. Thetrhad not
proceeded far, however, in their menacing oration, when the arrival
of horse quickly put assembly to the road, and taking one of the
speakers down from the tree, delivered hint into the safe custody of
the peace officers.
A minor accident, but of a most, seriotts nature, occurred on Mon-
day night, when Mr. Hinrick, of Cecil•street, Strand, who was quietly
going to the House of Commons on business, was sabred by one of
the Life Guards, and received a severe wound in his arm. A person
who was near him had his thigh broke.
WEDNESDAY.
The rain continued to full during the whole of this day, and there
Wetl ver) little crowd in the greets. Mont ten o'clock at atigUt,
however, the work of devastation began. again. A small party made
a slight attack upon Lord Castiereasb's boose in St. Jantestsitnare,

mist of Commons adjottripd, a great body of
von St. Martin's-'ape, exclaiming against the
toning destruction to those bx whom it was
ed increased as it advanced towards the House
le rioters learned, mush to their diseatisfaction,
had taken place. Being disappointed in the
ig any of the obnoxious members, they cow•
the windows of that part of the House of Coin-
Margaret's Church- yard, where they amused
e soldiery, and vociferating curses on the Coro