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APPENDIX TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE LORD VISCOUNT KEPPEL, ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2011

Edited by
James Stanier Clarke  and
John McArthur
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An Account of the Trial, to which is subjoined all the principal Official Documents relative thereto.

The peculiar interest with which an account of this memorable Trial must ever continue to be read by every British seaman, has induced us to step beyond our usual limits in the following Abstract, and to omit nothing that tended to elucidate so extraordinary an occurrence; so that the Navy will now for the first time be presented at one view with a complete account of the Life and Trial of this distinguished Officer.

ON the 7th of January, the signal was made for all the Admirals and Captains of his Majesty's fleet, to come on board the Britannia, in Portsmouth harbour. When they were assembled, the names of the Admirals and Captains on board, according to their rank and seniority, were called over by George Jackson, Esq. the Judge-Advocate, till a sufficient number answered to their names to compose the Court, those being passed over who had been summoned to give evidence on the trial. This being objected to by the Hon. Captain Walsingham, the Judge-Advocate read the following case, and the opinion of his Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor General, and Mr. Cust, thereon, to the Court :— […]

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The Naval Chronicle
Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
 , pp. 389 - 452
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1802

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