occasion recover his liberty; and with an intention to conduct him to
the House of Commons. On being disappointed, they grew tumultuous, and
an additional party of the third regiment of Guards were sent for. Some
foolish paper had been stuck up against the prison wall, which a
justice of the peace, then present, was not very wise in taking notice
of, for when he took it down the mob insisted on having it from him,
which he not regarding, the riot grew louder, the drums beat to arms,
the proclamation was read, and while it was reading, some stones and
bricks were thrown. William Allen, a young man, son of Mr. Allen,
keeper of the Horse Shoe Inn in Blackman Street, and who, _as appeared
afterwards, was merely a quiet spectator_, being pursued along with
others, was unfortunately singled out and followed by three soldiers
into a cow-house, and shot dead! A number of horse-grenadiers arrived,
and these hostile measures having no tendency to disperse the crowd,
which rather increased, the people were fired upon, five or six were
killed, and about fifteen wounded; among which were two women, one of
whom afterwards died in the hospital."

The author adds,--

"The soldiers were next day publicly thanked by a letter from the
Secretary-at-War in his master's name. McLaughlin, who actually killed
the inoffensive Allen, was withdrawn from justice and could never be
found, so that though his two associates Donald Maclaine and Donald
Maclaury, with their commanding officer Alexander Murray, were
proceeded against for the murder, the prosecution came to nothing and
only contributed to heighten the general discontent."

With respect to the monument in St. Mary's, Newington, I extract the
following from the _Oxford Magazine_ for 1769, p. 39.:--

"Tuesday, July 25. A fine large marble tombstone, elegantly finished,
was erected over the grave of Mr. Allen, junr., in the church-yard of
St. Mary, Newington, Surry. It had been placed twice before, but taken
away on some disputed points. On the sides are the following
inscriptions:--

_North Side._

Sacred to the Memory of
William Allen,

An Englishman of unspotted life and amiable disposition, [who was
inhumanely murdered near St. George's Fields, the 10th day of May,
1768, by the Scottish detachment from the army.][1]

"His disconsolate par