38 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
or marble or bullet, broke one of 
the windows. In returning, the 
moment his majesty entered the 
park, the gates of the Horse Guards 
were shut, for the purpose of ex- 
cluding the mob who followed ihe 
carriage; at which, as it passed 
opposite Spring Gardens Terrace, 
another stone was thrown, but it 
fortunately struck the wood-work 
between the windows. 
The crowd now pressed closely 
round the coach, and his majesty, 
in considerable agitation, signified, 
by waving his hands to the horse- 
guards on each side, his anxiety 
that the multitude should be kept 
atadistance, Inthis way hepassed 
on through the park, and round by 
the Stable-yard, into St. James’s 
palace at the front gate, the bottom 
of St. James’s street. A consider- 
able tumult took place when his 
majesty was about to alight, and 
one of the horses in the state coach 
took fright, threw down an old 
groom of the name of Dorrington, 
and broke one of his thighs, but it 
proved fortunately a simple frac- 
ture. His other thigh was consi- 
derably bruised, but not dange- 
rously. 
A few minutes after his majesty 
had entered the palace, the mob 
attacked the state coach with 
stones, and did it greatinjury. In 
its way along Pall Mall to the 
Mews, ‘many things were also 
thrown atit. After.a short time 
the king went in his private coach 
from St. James’s to Buckingham- 
house; but on his way through the 
park, the mob surrounded the ear- 
riage, and prevented it from pro- 
‘ceeding, crying out, ‘* Bread! 
Bread! Peace! Peace !’?—— The 
guards were, however, speedily 
prought up, a#nd they protected 
the carriage till his majesty got safe 
into Buckingham-house. 
When his majesty entered the 
house of peers, the first words he 
uttered were these, to the lord 
chancellor : 
_ ‘© My lord, I have been shot at!?” 
This alluded to the . substance 
which had broke the window while 
passing the Crdnante office. 
Thrée or four persons were ap- . 
pechened on suspicion of having 
thrown stones, &c. at the king, 
and one of them was charged with 
having called out ‘* No king,’’ 
and other such expressions. They 
were all examined at the duke of 
Portland’s office; and, waiting the 
result of this business, nothing was 
done in the house of lords till near 
six o’clock, when lord Westmore- 
land, who rode in the carriage with 
the king, having previously moved 
that strangers be ordered to with- 
draw, stated the insult and outrage 
with which the king had been treat- 
ed: and added, that his majesty, 
ana those who had accompanied 
him, were of opinion, that the 
glass of the coach had been broken 
by a ball from an air-gun, which 
had been shot from a bow-window 
of a house adjoining the Ordnance- 
ofice, with a view to assassinate 
the king. 
The king, through the whole of 
ithe riot, displayed the cool mag. 
nanimity for which the family 
have ever been distinguished. —At 
the time that the glass of the coach 
was broken, he said to lord West. 
moreland—‘* That’s a shot !”’ and, 
instead of leaning back in the car. 
riage, or striving to avoid the assas. 
sin, he pointed to the round hole 
in the pane, and examined it. But 
this was not all;—he went into 
the private coach, to go from St. 
James’s 
