Celebrated Naval and Military TrialsW.H. Allen, 1866 - 399 էջ |
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... been added the following : - c : - " You go , and round that head , like banners in the air , Shall float full many a loving hope and many a tender prayer . ” ployed in the Mediterranean trade . Captain Benbow had grown ADMIRAL BENBOW . 5.
... been added the following : - c : - " You go , and round that head , like banners in the air , Shall float full many a loving hope and many a tender prayer . ” ployed in the Mediterranean trade . Captain Benbow had grown ADMIRAL BENBOW . 5.
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... hope it will appear to the court , that neither knowledge of my profession , prudence in con- ducting the expedition , nor duty to my king and country , appear to be deficient in me . " When , then , from the inferiority of the English ...
... hope it will appear to the court , that neither knowledge of my profession , prudence in con- ducting the expedition , nor duty to my king and country , appear to be deficient in me . " When , then , from the inferiority of the English ...
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... hope your lordships will not think an afflicted sister's application ill - founded , in a case so hardly circumstanced , and which the judges ( though by the severity of the law they thought themselves obliged to pronounce the fatal ...
... hope your lordships will not think an afflicted sister's application ill - founded , in a case so hardly circumstanced , and which the judges ( though by the severity of the law they thought themselves obliged to pronounce the fatal ...
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... hope your lordships will not think he ought to suffer , either under a law unexplained or doubtful , or under a sentence erroneously passed , if the law has been mis- understood ; and if my unfortunate brother has been condemned under ...
... hope your lordships will not think he ought to suffer , either under a law unexplained or doubtful , or under a sentence erroneously passed , if the law has been mis- understood ; and if my unfortunate brother has been condemned under ...
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... hope I shall stand excused , if I beseech your lordships ' immediate intercession with His Majesty in his behalf . 17th February , 1757. " This letter passed unheeded . Byng prepared himself for death . He was ordered to be executed on ...
... hope I shall stand excused , if I beseech your lordships ' immediate intercession with His Majesty in his behalf . 17th February , 1757. " This letter passed unheeded . Byng prepared himself for death . He was ordered to be executed on ...
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Admiral Buckner Admiral Byng Admiral Keppel admiral's Admiralty afterwards appeared Armstrong arrived asked battle Bligh board the Sandwich Bounty British fleet brought Captain Kidd Captain Lacy cavalry charge Colonel Despard command conduct court court-martial crime death defence deponent duty Earl Edward Marcus Despard enemy engagement England evidence execution favour Ferrol fire France French fleet frigates garrison gentlemen George Sack Governor Wall guilty guns heard honour indictment island John John Benbow John Byng jury justice king Lavallette letter Lord George Sackville lordship Majesty's ment Minorca morning murder mutiny naval navy o'clock occasion officers Palliser Parker passed persons pirates Pitcairn's Island Portsmouth President Prince prisoner proceeded punishment received regiment Robert Calder sail seaman sentence ship signal Silas Deane Sir Robert Calder soldiers squadron Thomas tion told took trial vessel Vice-Admiral whole William witnesses
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Էջ 313 - An Act to empower His Majesty to secure and detain such persons as His Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and government.
Էջ 220 - I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Էջ 70 - Every person in the fleet, who through cowardice, negligence, or disaffection, shall in time of action withdraw or keep back, or not come into the fight or engagement, or shall not do his utmost to take or destroy every ship which it shall be his duty to engage, and to assist and relieve...
Էջ 337 - ... be taken to the place from whence you came, and from thence you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Էջ 151 - ... that she had lived in credit, and wanted for nothing, till a press-gang came and stole her husband from her ; but, since then, she had no bed to lie on ; nothing to give her children to eat; and they were almost naked ; and perhaps she might have done something wrong, for she hardly knew what she did.
Էջ 198 - It was painted by an artist worthy of the subject, the excellent friend of that excellent man from their earliest youth, and a common friend of us both, with whom we lived for many years without a moment of coldness, of peevishness, of jealousy, or of jar, to the day of our final...
Էջ 204 - The gentle island, and the genial soil, The friendly hearts, the feasts without a toil, The courteous manners but from nature caught, The wealth unhoarded, and the love unbought ; Could these have cfcrms for rudest sea-boys, driven Before the mast by every wind of heaven ? And now, even now prepared with others' woes To earn mild Virtue's vain desire, repose?
Էջ 151 - It is a circumstance not to be forgotten, that she was very young (under nineteen), and most remarkably handsome. She went to a linen-draper's shop, took some coarse linen off the counter, and slipped it under her cloak ; the shop-man saw her, and she laid it down : for this she was hanged.
Էջ 128 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Էջ 199 - ... and virtue in it, things had taken a different turn from what they did, I should have attended him to the quarter-deck with no less good will and more pride, though with far other feelings, than I partook of the general flow of national joy that attended the justice that was done to his virtue.