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immaculate C e, designed as a speaking figure ; he is 
represented with his mouth wide open ; the background is a 
pleasant view of a botanical garden ; behind the canvas is 
placed an aparatus to pour forth noisy, empty sounds.” 
This contrasts with the verdict of his own party : — 
“ J S C E. 
“ His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, his heart as 
free from fraud as earth from heaven.” 8 
On September the 15th the contest for the representation 
of the city led to a riot, which Mr. Smith describes to his 
son James, who was then in Paris: — 
“ About five o’clock it began to be assured that Mr. Hobart 
had a majority upon the Poll About six o’clock a fray 
began at the chain ” (across the Market-place) “ amongst the 
Stavesmen, and in a little time, how it happened we cannot 
exactly tell, but missile weapons began to be made use of . . . 
at last, the pavement was pulled up, and the heaviest stones 
flew about very thick, many were very badly wounded, some 
laid sprawling and senseless ; the King’s head from whence 
Bottles, Bricks, a Poker and a Knife were thrown, was 
violently assaulted, not a window unbroken and the walls of 
the house much batter’d ; at last the Sherifs interposed and the 
Riot subsided after about an hour’s continuance, in a very 
dreadful manner several were carried to the hospital 
who were among the worst, and the Druggists’ and Surgeons’ 
shops about the Market were crowded with those who wanted 
plaisters, happily no lives were lost that I hear of”' 17 ; but the 
election was afterwards declared void. 
Mr. Crowe took some time to recover from the excitement, 
for on February 21st. 1788, T. J. Woodward writes to James 
Smith : — “ I can hardly think Crowe could have any illwish to 
your Father in respect to the election, and he seems to have 
estranged himself equally from us all. I have not seen him 
more than a year, and I believe Pitchford very rarely.” 61 
But he returned again to public work, for in 1802 James 
Crowe was on the Board of Management of the Norfolk and 
Norwich Hospital ; and in 1805 Alderman Crowe was one of 
