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populace immediately dispersed 
in various directions, and soon af- 
ter formed a junction in Grosve- 
‘mor-square, where, after giving 
three cheers before the house of 
Sir Gilbert Heathcote, they: as- 
sembled in front of the earl of 
Derby’s and tore down the whole 
of the iron railing which encloses 
that side, of the square. -. The ap- 
proach of cavalry being announ- 
ced, the mob again dispersed. 
In Baker-street, No. .21, the 
house of John Morris, esq. one of 
the. Directors of the. East India 
Company, was beset by another 
division of the mob. Mr. Mor- 
ris’s house is situated within three 
minutes’ walk of the horse bar- 
racks, in King-street; but before 
the life guards were mounted, the 
mob had completely de iolished 
his windows, and were off; -and 
about eleven o'clock, re-assem- 
bled, calling out, “bread, bread !” 
opposite the house of Sir Joseph 
Banks, in Soho-square, and de- 
manding admission. When. Sir 
Joseph was first apprized of the 
quality of his visitors, he desired 
his servants to admit them; but 
they had already forced in through 
the doors and windows. Ina few 
minutes the parlour door was 
demolished, and boxes of valuable 
papers scattered in the street and 
area; the whole angle of the rail- 
ing of the square was also level- 
led with the ground before a de- 
tachment of the military arrived, 
when there was a general cry of 
«s Off, off!’ and the mob imme- 
diately dispersed.. 
Late in the evening the mob 
which broke the windows of the 
Morning Herald printing-office, 
proceeded to. the house of Mr. 
Tomkins, in. Serle-street, Lin- 
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coln’s Inn-fields, where they broke 
several windows: they next.at- 
tacked the house of Sergeant Best, 
in Lincoln’s Inn-fields, and demo- 
lished the windows in front, pull- 
ed up the iron railings, and threw 
them into the area, together with 
the stone steps at the door: they 
also broke some windows at -the 
house of Mr. Peacock, in the same 
square, but being fired upon from 
the inside with blank cartridges, 
they went off towards Bedford- 
square. Their object here, it ap- 
peared, was to find out the pri- 
vate house of Mr. H. Meux—No. 
28 being pointed. out to them, 
they proceeded to break the win- 
dows, but seeing bills for .the 
house to let, they were, for some 
time, at a loss to find out the real 
object,. when a party of consta- 
bles and several light horsemen 
appeared and totally dispersed 
them. 
The house of Mr.-Robinson 
was on Wednesday night particu- 
larly strongly guarded. . Parties 
of the horse guards were gallop- 
ing through all the neighbouring 
streets. 
9.—On this night nothing took 
place either at the east or -west 
end of the town that could be 
called by the name of riot, with 
the exception of a disturbance in 
Holles-street, Cavendish-square, 
before the house of Mr. Davies 
Giddy, M. P. for Bodmyn. A few 
disorderly persons, chiefly boys, 
passed through the street hoot- . 
ing and whistling, when one of 
them broke a window in Mr. D. 
Giddy’s house, and this assault 
was immediately answered by a 
shot from the first floor. The 
breaking of the windows did not 
discontinue on this acccount, but 
