EditorialPortrait of the author, Major-General Sir Rober Rollo Gillespie. A Memoir of Major-General Sir R. R. Gillespie. T. Egerton: London, England 1816. Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie (1766–1814) was an officer in the British army. In 1786 he was involved in a ...
EditorialThomas White, midshipman, on trial for the drunken murder of the sailor William Jones. Found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to 14 years transportation. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etch...
EditorialRepresentation of the Chinese court of justice held at the British factory of Canton on the 8th of March 1807 in the presence and at the special requisition of the British Authorities for an enquiry into a charge of homicide laid against the seamen of ...