The Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire
into the conduct of the. Police at the Coldbathfields meeting have also made their report. It is exculpatory of the Police; who are stated to have used no greater violence in dispersing the mob than the resistance of the latter rendered necessary. After the dispersion had been ef- fected, however, the Committee think that they were allowed to follow persons too far, and were not subjected to that " efficient control, which, in a moment of excitement and irritation, and after much provocation, could alone • prevent individual instances of undue exercise of power." It is especially noted, that while one Policeman was killed; and two were dangerously wounded, none of the mob received serious injury. The Report concludes with decliring, that "the conduct of the Police as a body, on the occasion in question, affords no just cause of com- plaint ;" but recommends great caution and vigilance on the part of their officers " to check any approach to unnecessary violence among their men on all occasions."
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