Rode in the park with Mrs Mytton, Capt. Meynell, Horace Seymour. At about 6 o'clock I heard a report that the Queen had been shot at in St. James' Park, while taking her daily drive with Prince Albert.

On reaching Hyde Park Corner I found all the carriages in the park assembled there 4 or 5 deep on each side of the road all the way from Cumberland Gate to Apsley House. All the horsemen too had assembled there and many thousand of foot people, all wanting to see the Queen return, for she had immediately after the attempt driven to her mother and then had gone round the park.

As her carriage, drawn by four horses entered the narrow alley left for it, it slackened its pace to a walk and as it was drawn slowly down the line every hat, far and near, went off and such a roll of cheers accompanied her as must have tried her nerves more than the shots. She looked pale and made continual acknowledgments by bending forwards and bowing right and left, while Prince Albert kept his hat raised from his head.