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are situate lower, nearer the mouth, and more forward in 

 the African Elephant than in its Asiatic congener. 



him, if possible, while Mr. Cross rapidly proceeded to Somerset- 

 house, where he found a sentry on duty, who did not dare to quit 

 his post, and referred him to the guard-room, where there were 

 only two other privates and a corporal, who, at first, declared his 

 utter inability to lend him either men or arms ; but on the earnest 

 entreaties of Mr. Cross for aid, and his repeated representations, 

 that he would be responsible in purse and person, and compensate 

 any consequences that could be incurred by a dereliction from the 

 formalities of military duty on so pressing an occasion, the cor- 

 poral relented, and with one of the privates hastened to the me- 

 nagerie. 



" Mr. Cross now met Herring, of the public office, Bow-street, to 

 whom he communicated the situation of affairs at Exeter 'Change, 

 and requested his assistance in obtaining arms. Herring suggested 

 an application to Bow-street for that purpose. It appears that 

 from accident they were not procurable there, and deeming it pos- 

 sible that they might be got at Sir W. Congreve's office, Mr. Cross 

 ran thither, where he was also disappointed. Mr. Brooks, glass- 

 man of the Strand, informed Mr. Cross there were small arms in 

 the neighbourhood of Somerset-house ; these, on returning to that 

 place, were discovered to be old howitzers, and therefore useless. 

 From thence he went on board the police-ship stationed on the 

 Thames, near Waterloo-bridge, expecting to find swivels, and was 

 again disappointed; being informed, however, that swivels were 

 fired during civic processions from Hawes's soap-manufactory, on 

 the Surrey side of the river, near Blackfriars-bridge, he rowed 

 over and obtained a swivel, with a few balls, and the head of a 

 poker, and the assistance of one of Mr. Hawes's men. The use 

 for either, however, ceased to exist; for they arrived at the mena- 

 gerie within a few minutes after the conclusion of such a scene as 

 had never been exhibited in that place, nor, probably, in any other 

 in this country. The elephant, was dead. 



To describe the proceedings of Exeter 'Change, from the time 

 of Mr. Cross's leaving it, it is necessary to recur to the period of 

 Mr. Herring's appearance thither, on his return from Mr. Stevens's, 

 in Holborn, with the three rifles, and. one of Mr. Stevens's assist- 

 ants. He found that the violence of the elephant had increased 

 every minute from the period of his departure with Mr. Cross, and 



