Celebrated Naval and Military TrialsW.H. Allen, 1866 - 399 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 44
Side 4
... effects of this gracious promise ; for the sense of the king's gratitude and goodness so overcame his spirits , that , sitting down on a bench , he there breathed his last , before the king was well out of the Tower . John Benbow , the ...
... effects of this gracious promise ; for the sense of the king's gratitude and goodness so overcame his spirits , that , sitting down on a bench , he there breathed his last , before the king was well out of the Tower . John Benbow , the ...
Side 22
... effects thus fraudulently obtained . This coming to the knowledge of King William III . , he , in the year 1695 , bestowed the government of New England and New York on his devoted follower , Richard Coote , Earl of Bellamont , an Irish ...
... effects thus fraudulently obtained . This coming to the knowledge of King William III . , he , in the year 1695 , bestowed the government of New England and New York on his devoted follower , Richard Coote , Earl of Bellamont , an Irish ...
Side 25
... effects , and left the Quedagh Mer- chant , with eighteen of the ship's company , in Bolton's care . While at St. Mary's , ninety men of Kidd's crew left him , and went on board the Mocca Merchant , an East India ship , which had just ...
... effects , and left the Quedagh Mer- chant , with eighteen of the ship's company , in Bolton's care . While at St. Mary's , ninety men of Kidd's crew left him , and went on board the Mocca Merchant , an East India ship , which had just ...
Side 43
... effect : and further said , ' he must answer these people , that his men will not part with it : ' and a Frenchman was to be set up for a mock business , as you have heard ; and if the witness say true , they were said by the captain of ...
... effect : and further said , ' he must answer these people , that his men will not part with it : ' and a Frenchman was to be set up for a mock business , as you have heard ; and if the witness say true , they were said by the captain of ...
Side 47
... effect , and so they made presents one to another ; and Captain Kidd left three of his men with him . Whilst men pursue their commissions they must be justified ; but when they do things not authorised , or never acted by them , it is ...
... effect , and so they made presents one to another ; and Captain Kidd left three of his men with him . Whilst men pursue their commissions they must be justified ; but when they do things not authorised , or never acted by them , it is ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
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
Populære avsnitt
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 128 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Side 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.