Queries addressed to Capt. C-----ll, late of His M's ship Revenge
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
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Title
Queries addressed to Capt. C-----ll, late of His M's ship Revenge
Variant Title
Queries addressed to Capt. Cornwall|Queries addressed to Capt. Cornewall
Published
[London? : s.n., s.d.]
Description
1 leaf ; 34 cm. (fol.)
Call Number
IN L2005F180 1698/1811 ff
Note
Anonymous; not in Halkett & Laing.
Addressee's full name supplied from Alan Valentine. The British establishment, 1760-1784, vol. I, p. 204. His surname is sometimes spelled Cornewall.
Suggests that Cornwall was more to blame for the failure of the 20 May 1756 battle off Minorca than was Admiral Byng.
Capt. Cornwall, referred to as Frederick Cornwall in D. Pope's At twelve Mr. Byng was shot, was the one-armed commander of the 64-gun ship Revenge which was pitted against the French ship Foudroyant that had disabled the Intrepid during the battle off Minorca. After the battle, Cornwall requested a court martial on himself, which court sat prior to that of Byng against whom Cornwall testified. This broadside presents a series of questions which conclude: "In the course of your own evidence on Admiral Byng's trial, did not your own conscience work thro' the subtle substance of your usual fawning art, and reveal that dread that passed within, by confessing 'you were apprehensive what you might say, would tend to accuse yourself?'"
Closely trimmed at margins.
On leaf 257r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
Addressee's full name supplied from Alan Valentine. The British establishment, 1760-1784, vol. I, p. 204. His surname is sometimes spelled Cornewall.
Suggests that Cornwall was more to blame for the failure of the 20 May 1756 battle off Minorca than was Admiral Byng.
Capt. Cornwall, referred to as Frederick Cornwall in D. Pope's At twelve Mr. Byng was shot, was the one-armed commander of the 64-gun ship Revenge which was pitted against the French ship Foudroyant that had disabled the Intrepid during the battle off Minorca. After the battle, Cornwall requested a court martial on himself, which court sat prior to that of Byng against whom Cornwall testified. This broadside presents a series of questions which conclude: "In the course of your own evidence on Admiral Byng's trial, did not your own conscience work thro' the subtle substance of your usual fawning art, and reveal that dread that passed within, by confessing 'you were apprehensive what you might say, would tend to accuse yourself?'"
Closely trimmed at margins.
On leaf 257r of The Tragedy of Admiral Byng, 1756-1757
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L2005F180
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