Vice Admiral Lestock's defence to the Court-Martial : giving a short view of the nature of his evidence

Vice Admiral Lestock's defence to the Court-Martial : giving a short view of the nature of his evidence

London : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1746.

[2], xxii, 67, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

L2019F69 1782

(OCoLC)228744899

Title vignette.
Signatures: pi1 a-b4 c4(-c4) B-K4.
Deals with Vice-Admiral Lestocks defence over his conduct at the Battle of Toulon in 1744. Richard Lestock was in hopes of commanding the Mediterranean Fleet but Vice-Admiral Thomas Mathews was appointed in his stead and the two men were unfriendly toward each other and their actions precipitated the eventual failure of the blockade of Toulon. Both were court-martialled and after a trial Lestock was acquitted and Mathews eventually dismissed the service.
With: Facts and their consequences ..., 1782; To the independent freeholders of the County of Surry, [1780]; Considerations on the state of the Roman Catholics in Scotland, 1779.

ESTC T005368

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