of C."-- _Annual Register_, 1770, pp.

59-67.] [Footnote 15: On more than one occasion there had been disturbances in the City, and in the streets adjacent to the Houses of Parliament, which were little short of riot.

One day the mob paraded effigies of the principal ministers, which, after hanging and beheading them, they committed to the flames with great uproar.

On another day Mr.Charles Fox (as yet a vehement Tory) complained to the House that the mob in Palace Yard had insulted him, breaking the glasses of his chariot, and pelting him with oranges, stones, etc .-- _Parliamentary History_, xvii., 163.].