The mob threatened Lord North's house.

There were soldiers at the windows, and an immense and furious crowd in Downing Street.

She saw, she said, from her nursery the fires in different parts of London; but she did not understand the danger; and only exulted in being up at midnight.

Then she was conveyed through the Park to the Horse Guards as the safest place; and was laid, wrapped up in blankets, on the table in the guardroom in the midst of the officers.

"And it was such fun," she said, "that I have ever after had rather a liking for insurrections." I write in the midst of a crowd.