The Sun. — 1833-05-15 (London, England)

STIR. LING, the Coroner, and a very respectable Jury of seventeen gentlemen, on the body of the policeman who lost his life on Monday last. Considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood. The Jury having been sworn proceeded to view the body, which was still dressed in the police uniform, When they returned, the following witnesses were called and examined : Nathaniel Stalwood, of Calthorpe-street, was on his balcony, at the corner of the street, from three o'clock in the after. noon until late in the evening ; he saw the whole space where the meeting was to be held. About three o'clock he saw a caravan belonging to a person named Reynolds drawn up opposite Calthorpe.street as a hustings. A boy, he believed, called Lee, got upon it, and proposed that a Chairman should be elected, others followed him, among whom was the person who afterwards acted as chairman. Reynolds got up into the caravan and, finding the party in it did not pay him, drove off with the whole committee up Calthorpe-street. The persons in it then jumped out, and Lee got upon the rail, and supporting himself with a placard board, proposed that Mr. Mee should be elected chairman of the meeting, which proposition was carried by not more than 100 hands. Mee then got up beside him and addressed the meeting. The witness gave the substance of the chairman's speech as it appeared in The Sun of Monday evening. Soon after the chairman had begun his address, a body of the police made their appearance at the east end of Calthorpe-street, when he observed the chairman turn extremely pale. They formed across the street, and marched up towards the crowd. Another body of police came out of the White Horse Liverystables into Gough-street. The body that came down Calthorpestreet halted within 20 yards of the chairman, the other body did the same, and the men took out their staffs. They were then ordered to charge indiscriminately, and the two bodies united began by knocking every body down, men, women, and children. There was no order for the people to disperse ; the Riot Act was not read, neither was the proclamation. The ground was covered with bodies lying in all directions. No resistance was offered by the mob at any time, except when a policeman was making his way towards the Chairman, when a stout man put his hand against the policeman's breast to stop him, but he was instantly knocked down. The system of knocking down every one continued for near an hour, without any attempt to take any one into custody. Observing the policemen still continuing to ill treat the people, he addressed them from the balcony, saying, if the people were doing wrong, they should take them into custody ; that as the Riot Act had not been read, nor the Proclamation, nor any opportunity given the people to disperse, in his opinion the police themselves were the only disturbers of the public peace, and acted illegally. Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of police, called witness a scoundrel, and said that it was such men as he that encouraged mobs like that then present. He went into the street to put two ladies into a car. riage from his house, and then demanded Mr. Thomas's name, which was given him, and he begged to apologize for the language he had used, for one of their body had been murdered, which had very much exasperated him. He also asked witness to go with him and see the body, which he did, at the Calthorpe Arms. The body was laying on a table, with a slight, but sharp wound on the left side of the breast, and as it appeared to him must have reached the heart instantly. All the inhabi. tants who saw the attack of the police, shouted " Shame, shame."  By a Junoa—There were about 300 people assembled, and he thought there were more than fifteen hundred police. Did not think that any breach of the peace would have taken place had the police not interfered ; with six men he would have taken the whole into custody. The officers of the police did not appear to have any command over their men, nor did he see any of them attempt to stop them from their barbarous usage of the poor women and old men. (To be concluded in our Second Elitism)