“Several persons taken into custody by the soldiers; and two were taken by Lord Talbot, who was the only minister who had sufficient resolution to come down among the mob; his lordship had secured another, who was rescued, and his lordship received a violent blow on the head, by being thrown against a coach, and then thought it prudent to take shelter among the soldiers.” A grand council at St. James’s was held on the afternoon of these events, and in the evening a _Gazette Extraordinary_ was published, with a proclamation by the king--who had in person witnessed the disturbances attending the sham address,--“for suppressing riots,” etc., beginning-- “Whereas it has been represented to us that divers dissolute and disorderly persons have most riotously and unlawfully assembled themselves together, to the disturbance of the public peace, and have, in a most daring and audacious manner, assaulted several merchants and others, coming to our palace at St. James’s, and have committed many acts of violence and outrage before the gates of our palace,” etc. The proclamation further charges the lord mayor, and justices of the peace for the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and counties of Middlesex and Surrey, to prevent and suppress all riots, tumults, and unlawful assemblies, etc. Another engraving on the same topic--as described by Mr. Edward Hawkins, from whose collection, bequeathed to the British Museum, many of these early illustrations are selected--was entitled:-- “THE GOTHAM ADDRESSERS; OR, A PEEP AT THE HEARSE.” “Sing the Addressers who lately set out To flatter the great and honesty rout, Where Frenchmen, and Swiss, and Hollanders shy United their forces with Charley Dingley,” etc.