The Assassination of Mountfort in Norfolk street, Strand

The murder of Mountfort is related with great particularity in Galt's *Lives of the Players*, and is also detailed in, if I recollect aright, Mr. Jesse's *London and its Celebrities;* but in neither account is the following anecdote mentioned, the purport of which adds, if possible, to the blackness of Mohun's character:— "Mr. Shorter, Horace Walpole's mother's father, was walking down Norfolk Street in the Strand, to his house there, just before poor Mountfort the player was killed in that street by assassins hired by Lord Mohun. This nobleman lying in for his prey, came up and embraced Mr. S…