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301. The trial of Thomas Muir, Esq., younger of Huntershill, before the High Court of Justiciary, upon Friday and Saturday the 30th and 31st days of August 1793, on a charge of sedition / the whole accurately taken down in shorthand ; with an elegant portrait of Mr. Muir ; to which is annexed an appendix, containing all the papers referred to in the course of the trial

303. The business man's assistant : being an improved edition of the "Business guide and legal companion," containing useful forms of legal instruments: enlarged by the addition of forms of acknowledgments, agreements, assignments, awards, bonds, leases, mortgages, and legal opinions, found in no other work : Adapted to the wants of business men throughout the United States / By an attorney ; To which is added tables: of interest--of U.S. Custom House value of foreign currencies--and of all the gold and silver coins in circulation

308. The confession of Jereboam Beauchamp (written by himself) who was executed at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of Col. Solomon P. Sharp, a member of the legislature, and late attorney-general of Ky. To which is added some poetical pieces written by Mrs. Ann Beauchamp, who voluntarily put a period to her existence on the day of the execution of her husband, and was buried in the same grave with him

314. The battles of "Gravelly Run", "Dinwiddie Court-house", and "Five Forks", Va., 1865. Argument on behalf of Lieut Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U.S.A., respondent , by Asa Bird Gardner L.L.D., judge - advocate, U.S.A., of council before the court of inquiry convened by the President of the United States, (S.O. 277, ex. 6, Army hd. qrs., A.G.O., 9 Dec. 1879,) in the case of Lieut. Col. and Bvt. Major-General Gouverneur K. Warren, Corps of Engineers, formerly Major-General commanding the 5th Army Corps, applicant. Delivered July 27th, 28th, and 30th, 1881.

316. An analytical statement of the case of Alexander, Earl of Stirling and Dovan ... : containing an explanation of his official dignities and peculiar territorial rights and privileges in the British colonies of Nova Scotia and Canada, &c. &c. and also shewing the descent of the Stirling peerage honours, supported by legal evidence, and the law and usage of Scotland, appertaining thereto ... / By Thomas C. Banks ...

318. General division of the argument. A-Statement of the charges and imputations against Warren. B-Certain general considerations as to the case and testimony. C-The facts as to the engagement of the 31st March. D-The facts as to the movements to reenforce General Sheridan. E-The facts as to the Battle of Five Forks. F-General examination of Warren's conduct through the two days covered by the investigation of the court / Gouverneur Kemble Warren.

324. The life and confession of Carolino Estradas de Mina : executed at Doylestown, June 21, 1832, for poisoning with arsenic, William Chapman / written by himself in the Spanish language, while under sentence of death in the jail at Doylestown, and delivered by him to the sheriff of Bucks County, with a request to have the same translated into English ; translated from the original ms. in Spanish, by C.G.

328. High-treason : The whole proceedings on the trial of James Watson, the elder, surgeon, Arthur Thistlewood, gent., Thomas Preston, cordwainer, and John Hooper, labourer, for high-treason ... Together with the whole proceedings in this highly interesting and important trial, given at full length / Taken in short-hand by a gentleman of the bar, expressly for this edition.

339. The whole proceedings on the trial of indictment against Thomas Walker of Manchester : merchant, Samuel Jackson, James Cheetham, Oliver Pearsal [sic] Benjamin Booth, and Joseph Collier : for a conspiracy to overthrow the constitution and government, and to aid and assist the French, (being the King's Enemies) in case they should invade this Kingdom.

344. Life, trial, and particulars of the execution of Governor Wall : who was executed on Thursday morning last, fronting Newgate, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, nearly 20 years ago, at Goree, in Africa. By causing him to receive, without trial, 800 lashes, which we inflicted by Black Slaves, changed at every 25 lashes.

348. The whole proceedings on the trial of indictment against Thomas Walker of Manchester : merchant, Samuel Jackson, James Cheetham, Oliver Pearsal [sic] Benjamin Booth, and Joseph Collier : for a conspiracy to overthrow the constitution and government, and to aid and assist the French, (being the King's Enemies) in case they should invade this Kingdom.

349. The trial at large on an action for damages, brought in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer before the Right Hon. Lord Chief Baron Yelverton and a jury of citizens, on Saturday the 20th of February, 1796, by the Right Hon. George Fred. Earl of Westmeath, against the Honourable Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, for adultery with the Right Hon. Mary Anne, Countess of Westmeath.

372. The trial of Humphry Finnimore, Esq. (reputed to be worth forty thousand pounds), who was tried at the quarter session holden for the county of Surrey in the Town-Hall, Southwark, on Thursday the 14th day of January 1779 and convicted of felony in stealing of five turkies, the property of Thomas Humphries.

381. The trial at large, of Joseph Wall, esq. : late governor of Goree Island, on the coast of Africa, for the wilful murder, of Benjamin Armstrong, in July, 1782, by causing him to be tied to a gun-carriage, and flogged with a piece of rope, on his bare back, by Black Men: Who was tried, and found Guilty, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, on the 20th of January, 1802.

383. The trial of Governor Wall : executed at the Old Bailey, Jan. 28th, 1802, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, in the Garrison at Goree, upon the coast of Africa, July, 1782; with the extraordinary particulars of his escape at Reading, after being captured under a warrant from the Privy Council in 1784, and his subsequent surrented in 1802, having lived twenty years in exile.

389. Trial of Henry Rogers, the captain, William Miles, first mate, and Charles E. Seymour, second mate, of the ship ""Martha and Jane,"" of Sunderland, for the wilful murder on the high seas, of Andrew Rose, a seaman, tried at the Liverpool summer assizes, before Mr. Baron Watson, on the 19th August, 1857, with the particulars of the execution of the captain, the fate of the two mates being yet undecided. The evidence given verbatim from the report made for Her Majesty's government. By Bond Hughes, esq.

394. An account of the arguments of counsel, and the directions of the court, on a plea of auterfois acquit : pleaded by James Foy at the Summer Assizes 1786, holden for the county of Mayo at Ballinrobe, on the fifth day of June : to an indictment for procuring, stirring, and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig and others, to slee and murder Patrick Randal M'Donnell, Esquire and Charles Hipson, with the pleadings in that case