cond was
met by an amendment to put off the consideration for four days. This
gave rise to a discussion, during which Lord George went out several
times into the lobby and harangued the multitude, encouraging them to
persevere, inasmuch as terror would be sure to induce the king and his
ministers to grant the prayer of their petition. On his return into the
house, after one of these harangues, Colonel Holroyd took hold of his
lordship, saying, that hitherto he had imputed his conduct to madness,
but that he found there was more malice than madness in it; and that
if he proceeded to the lobby again, he would immediately move for his
commitment to Newgate. At the same time Holroyd called upon him to
remove the blue cockade from his hat. Lord George timidly obeyed the
order, and did not venture to go down into the lobby again; contenting
himself with addressing the mob from the gallery stairs; denouncing in
his harangues from thence the more Popishly inclined members of the
house. Their yells and menaces continued, but undeterred by them the
house adopted the amendment, six members only voting with Lord George.
By this time Mr. Addington, an active Middlesex magistrate, arrived
in Palace-yard, with a party of horse and foot guards, and induced the
multitude to disperse. But mischief was afloat. In the course of his
harangues in the lobby, Lord George had suggested that there was no
remedy for them till they had pulled down all the Popish chapels. This
was remembered; and as the multitude returned to their homes, the chapel
of the Bavarian minister, in Warwick-street, Golden-square; and
the chapel of the Sardinian ambassador, in Duke-street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields, were burnt to the ground. The military were
ordered out and some rioters were apprehended, while the rest went home
to rest. The next day, Saturday, passed off quietly; but a discussion.
took place in the lords, in which some sentiments were uttered by
the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Shelburne, on the subject of the
concessions made to the Roman Catholics by a Protestant government,
which were well calculated to rekindle the fanatic fire out of doors.
These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had
been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that
his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most
effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages
committed both in the vicinity