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15. M. Harrison, Crowds and History: Mass Phenomena in English Towns, 1790-
    1835 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 32-42. Harrison thus
    is critical of E.P. Thompson, George Rude and some of their admirers for using
    crowd and riot synonymously. See esp. pp. 3-31. See also Dickinson, Politics of
    the People, Chap. 4.


16. Palmer, Police and Protest, p. 166.


17. Liverpool Mercury, 20 July 1821, quoted in Harrison, Crowds and History, p. 170.


18. Harrison, Crowds and History, p. 316.


19. Harrison, Crowds and History, p. 316.


20. Cobbett's Pari. Debates, vol. XXXIII, cols. 888-91.


21. The Times printed extensive excerpts of the testimony given before the Police
    Committee, including Colquhoun's evidence. See, for example, 2-4 Sept. 1816. ·


22. L.B. Allen, Brief Considerations on the Present State of the Police (J. Bretell,
    1821), pp. 3-4.


23. BSP, House of Commons, 1818, vol. VIII, Third Report of the Committee to
    Enquire into the Police of the Metropolis, p. 25. Hereafter cited as 1818 Police
    Committee Report.


24. 1818 Police Committee Report, pp. 25-7.


25. 1818 Police Committee Report, pp. 25-6.


26. Thompson, Working Class, pp. 644-62; Royle and Walvin, Radicals and Refor-
    mers, pp. 112-17. For a view that challenges Thompson, see Thomis and Holt,
    Threats of Revolution, pp. 42-61.


27. 1818 Police Committee Report, p. 26.


28. For a debate about spies and informers, see Cobbett's Pari. Debates, vol.
    XXXVII, cols. 820-62.


29. St James, Piccadilly, VM, 10 March, 11 March, 13 March 1815. See also
    G. Pellew, The Life and Con-espondence of the Right Honourable Henry Adding-
    ton, First VIScount Sidmouth (John Murray, 1847), vol. III, pp. 126-7.


30. Devon County Record Office, Sidmouth Correspondence, C. 1815, OA, Hugh
    Hammersley to Sidmouth, 6 May 1815.


31. St Leonard, Shoreditch, Parish Meeting Minutes, 1 June 1814, 2 March 1815,
    22 March 1815.


32. Stevenson, 'The Queen Caroline Affair', p. 129 and Sheppard, London 1808-
    1870, p. 306.


33. Quoted in D. Read, Peterloo: the 'Massacre' and its Background (Manchester:
    Manchester University Press, 1958) p. 145. See also R. Walmsley, Peterloo: The
    Case Reopened (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969) p. 252.


34. Quoted in A. Mitchell, The Whigs in Opposition 1815-1830 (Oxford: Oarendon
    Press, 1967) p. 126. See also Walmsley, Peterloo, pp. 264-5; Thompson, Worlcing
    Class, pp. 685-7 and P. Lawson, 'Reassessing Peterloo', History Today, 38
    (1988), pp. 24-9.


35. 13 Oct. 1819, col. 676.


36. Devon County Record Office, Sidmouth Correspondence, C.1819 OH, Sid-
    mouth to Lord Kenyon, 3 Sept. 1819.


37. See Read, Peterloo, pp. 186-7 and Thompson, Working Class, pp. 699-700.


38. Ginter, 'The Loyalist Association Movement', pp. 179-90; Bohstedt, Riots and
    Community Politics, pp. 49-51; Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-
    1837 (New Haven, Cf: Yale University Press, 1992) pp. 283-91 and 316-19.


39. Devon County Record Office, Sidmouth Correspondence, C.1819 OH, Sid-
    mouth to Canning, 12 Dec. 1819.


40. Quoted in Philips, 'Law Enforcement in England, 1780-1830', p. 183.