The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-04 00:00:00

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

This morning, shortly before twelve o'clock,
as her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert were proceeding in their carriage from the
Palace, through the Park, for the purpose of attend.
ing Divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's,
a person about 18 years of age, with a hump back,
rather shabbily attired in a brown frock coat, and
light coloured fustian trousers, was observed by two
youths, brothers of the name of Dassett, to pull from
his pocket a pistol. Suspecting that he contemplated
mischief, they immediately seized the pistol, but by
the rush which took place at the moment to get a
view of the Queen as she passed, the ruffian's escape
was favoured, and we regret to say that, up to this
moment (half-past four o'clock), the police have not
succeeded in apprehending him. It is stated that
Dassett immediately informed a policeman of the cir-
cumstance, and showed him the pistol. The police-
man however treated the matter lightly, but the by-
standers, seeing the instrument in his hand, insisted
upon his being taken to the station-house, believing
that he was the delinquent. He was accordingly
conveyed to Gardiner's-lane, where he still remains
in custody.
Intelligence of these circumstances was instantly
dispatched to the Secretary of State fur the Home
Department, who at once directed summonses to be
issued for holding a Privy Council. At half-past two
o'clock, Lord Stanley, Sir E. Knatchbull, and several
other members of the Cabinet, and Sir George Clark
and Mr. Phillips, Under-Secretary of State, had as-
sembled at the Treasury, where they remained inves-
tigating the matter for nearly two hours. Sir R.
Peel, we understand, is at Cambridge. We believe
that Prince George of Cambridge, Sir George Clark,
and many of the heads of the public departments, had
been in the course of the day at the station-house, to
learn the fullest particulars of this extraordinary
affair.

On inquiry at the station-house, at four o'clock,
we learned that the Commissioners of Police, Colonel
Rowan and Mr. Mayne, were then making a most
rigid investigation of what had taken place, but any
information on the subject was not suffered to
transpire.
(From the Third Edition of the Weekly Chronicle.)
The horror created by the third attempt on the
life of her Majesty (the details of which will be
found in another column) is on the increase, and we
now give the latest particulars of this diabolical
affair :—This day, at a few minutes before twelve
o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Albert were pro-
ceeding in their carriage through St. James's Park,
attended by their suite, from Buckingham Palace to
the Chapel Royal, St. James's. When the Royal
cortege had proceeded a short distance towards the
Duke of Sutherland's, a young man of the name of
Dassett, residing in Church-street, Paddington, ob-
served a deformed lad, having a large hump on his right
shoulder, and dressed in a long, shabby, brown frock-
coat, and fustian trousers, lying halfcrouched down by
the side of one of the trees opposite the railings• of the
Green Park ; he saw that he had a pistol in his hand,
which he at once seized and wrested from him, but
not before it had been snapped and missed fire,
although there was powder in the pan. Dassett, who
was in company with his brother, collared the lad,
and informed a policeman of what he had seen, but it
is stated he did not seem inclined to take the charge,
and the lad in some way escaped. A crowd soon col-
lected, and it was thought the guilty party was Dassett
himself, who had then possession of the pistol, and he
was taken to the station-house in Gardner's-lane. The
pistol, upon being examined, was found to be loaded
with a small quantity of powder and some gravel
stones. The- Royal carriage, on each side of which
an Equerry was riding, was about twenty paces dis-
tant when the lad, for he did not appear to be above
sixteen years of age, was first seen as above described,
and, of course, there was an instantaneous rush to see
her Majesty as she passed, and this confusion it was
that favoured the escape of the really guilty party.
Up to two o'clock Dassett was at the station-house,
and the other lad had not been traced. Intelligence
of these circumstances was instantly despatched to the
Secretary of State for the Home Department, who at
once directed summonses to be issued for holding a
Privy Council.
The report of the third diabolical meditated assassina-
tion of our beloved Queen has, as may naturally be ex-
pected, caused an extraordinary degree of excitement,
and at 5 o'clock, on our Reporter proceeding to the Park,
he found it crowded to excess by persons of all ranks,
most of whom had gathered together in the immediate
vicinity of the Palace, awaiting, with the utmost
anxiety, the arrival of any intelligence respecting the
infamous occurrence above alluded to, and also with
the view of giving vent to their feelings of loyalty,
should her Majesty (as it was reported she would,
notwithstanding what had taken place) go out again
to enjoy her usual afternoon's ride.
On the Reporter hastening to the station-house, in
Gardner's-lane, Westminster, where, it was stated, the
youth, who happily frustrated the regicidal attempt was
taken, he accosted a diminutive inspector, who was
sitting very comfortably at the entrance door, in order
that he might, if possible, be enabled to elicit from him
some facts; but, after putting several questions to him,
at which he gave either negative or evasive answers,
he at length admitted that h€ was not at liberty to
communicate particulars to any one. Amongst the
rumours now current is one to the effect that the
pistol taken possession of had no lock, neither was it
loaded. Another report is that the youth who is said
to have presented it at her Majesty did not in point of

fact do so, but merely ran alongside the carriage with
the implement in his hand, and that the probability
is that it was nothing more than a foolish joke, but
that finding it was taken up in so serious a way,
he deemed it prudent to effect his escape.
Her Majesty has not left Buckingham Palace th!s
afternoon.

[FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.]
The latest particulars of the villain who presented a
pistol at her Majesty in the grand mall, St. James's
Park, while proceeding to chapel yesterday morning,
is described in a notice which was sent from Scotland-
yard to the various police stations, at a late hour last
night, as follows : _

He was a young man, apparently about 16 or 18
years of age, very fair, long hair, has a mark or black
patch on the side of his nose, of very dirty appearance
and was dressed in a coat much too large for
him (a dark brown surtout) and a small dark
cloth cap. He has a hump-back, and was in com-
pany of another man, who was suffered to escape by
the police. The other man was captured and de-
tained until further inquiry is made. A young man
of the name of Wright, a cripple, well known in
the neighbourhood of Lambeth, was near the offender
when he presented the pistol. Orders were also sent
from Scotland-yard to the different police stations,
for the ins?ectors to send out a num )er of men
incog. to endeavour to apprehend the man who had
been let go by the constable of the A Division,
which was acted upon last night, there being about
six men of each division despatched in various quarters
for thut purpo3e.
The two police-constables (one 156 A), who let
the fellow escape, are suspended, the person having
been given in their charge for the attempt, which
they laughed at.