Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
On Thursday night this
mob of 20 thousand had been collected at the above theatre in
consequence of the appearance on the stage of Mr Macready
an English actor
There had been also a riot of late in Canada
Seven thousand mob surrounded the Parliament House broke
in the windows stoned and egg'd the Governor Lord Elgin
and all the members of Parliament burned the Parliament
House to the ground and the Canadian records of five
hundred years destroyed.
