[TRIAL.]

The Trial of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Wall, Late Governor of Goree, at the Old Bailey, on Wednesday, January 20, 1802; for the Wilful Murder of Benjamin Armstrong, A Serjeant of the African Corps, July 10, 1782.

London, printed and sold by Sabine and Son, 81, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street. N.D. [1802?] Stitched as issued preserving the original (?) upper wrapper. 12mo. pp. 40. Wall was the Governor of the island of Goree in African Senegal. He had Armstrong sentenced to 800 lashes to be delivered in batches of 25 by "black men under the Governor's orders." Crucially, these were not native troops, making both the scale of the punishment and the way it was administered most unusual. Not surprisingly Armstrong died from his injuries. After escaping from custody in Reading Wall spent the next 18 years on the run. Thinking that sufficient time had elapsed for a degree of clemency to be afforded him, he surrended to the authorities. At his trial he was duly found guilty and executed. Several accounts of the trial exist, mostly verbatim transcripts; this chapbook edition is scarce and not recorded in COPAC. Frontispiece. Wrappers worn with a a few short tears, frontispiece torn in the blank margin without loss.

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