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OF

THE HONOURABLE

ANDREW COCHRANE JOHNSTONE;

INCLUDING A

VIEW OF THE EVIDENCE

PRODUCED ON HIS TRIAL;

WITH THE

Sentence

AND VARIED COMMENTARIES THEREON,
BY THE

JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL;

AND WITH A

RELATIVE SERIES OF INTERESTING LETTERS PREVI-
OUS AND SUBSEQUENT TO THE PROSECUTION:
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

A LETTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK,
On the present Administration of Military Law.

TO THIS EDITION IS ADDED,

A CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF
THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF,

AND THE

SPEECHES IN THE HOUSES OF LORDS AND COMMONS
ON THE RESULT OF THE TRIAL.

EDINBURGH:

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1806.

General the Right Honourable the EARL of

HARRINGTON,

General PETER CRAIG,

Lieutenant-General GEORGE HARRIS,

Major-General JOHN WHITELOCK,

Major-General the Hon. EDWARD Finch,

Major-General the Right Honourable

LORD SOUTHAMPTON,

Major-General SIR JOHN STUArt,

Major-General the Hon. EDWARD Paget,

Major-General BRENT SPENCER,

Brigadier-General WILLIAM HOUSTON,

Brigadier-General ANTHONY LEWIS LAYARD,

Brigadier-General FRANCIS CARRuthers,

Brigadier-General HENRY MONTREsor,

Brigadier-General ALBERT GLEDSTANES,

AND

Brigadier-General JAMES HAY,

TO WHOM THIS PUBLIC APPEAL IS MADE
FOR THE TRUTH OF THEIR CONTENTS,
THE FOLLOWING PAGES

ARE

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

THEIR MOST OBEDIENT

AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT,

ANDREW COCHRANE JOHNSTONE.