Catalogue description Folio(s) 70-73. Letter from Charles Herries, Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers, at...

Folio(s) 70-73. Letter from Charles Herries, Colonel of the Light Horse Volunteers, at Hastings [Sussex], enclosing a report of the conduct of the Light Horse Volunteers from the time they were called out until they were stood down by the Secretary of State. Herries notes that there were 354 men on duty from 16 September 1800 to 22 September 1800.

Attached report states that the Light Horse Volunteers were called out by Lieutenant Colonel Beauchamp, Field Officer, and reported to the stables at Grays Inn Lane [London]. Herries and Beauchamp visited the Secretary of State to satisfy themselves as to the propriety of calling out the corps although not strictly within its remit. They then met the Lord Mayor to report the situation in which the Light Horse Volunteers found themselves, receiving the insults from a lawless mob without having the authority to use force to disperse the mob. It was agreed that forces should only be send into the City on the written authority of the Lord Mayor and that they would be empowered to use such force as necessary to clear the streets. This had been complied with except on the occasion where Major Hoare had returned from his mother's burial and given assistance to Alderman Price in Grays Inn Lane without being aware of the arrangement.