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Niles' Weekly Register Volume 8. William Ogden Niles

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Author: William Ogden Niles
Number of Pages: 746 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2360/9781236023810.jpg
ISBN: 9781231212226
Download Link: Niles' Weekly Register Volume 8
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...of investigation on the nil. Colonel Ayre arrived from Plymouth and took command of the military department of this depot. Shortland sent in a message to the committee, request ing their attendance at this office, to which was returned for answer, that considering him a murderer, they were determined to have no furtlier communication with him--but added if the commanding officer from Plymouth had any tiling to communicate, they would wait On him; and, at Ins request, they went up to the gte, where they stated to him all liie particulars of the affair. He expressed great regret for what had occurcd, and assured the prisoners that no further violence should be used upon lluiu. In the mean time Shortland made his appearance. Instantly the indignant' cry of murderer, scoundrel, villain, burst from the lips of hundreds. The guilty wretch stood appalled, not daring to offer a sjllible in vindication of his conduct; but with a pallid vissage and trembling step returned to his guard house, from whence he was never seen to emerge while we remained there. In the course of the day a rear admiral and post captain arrived from Plymouth, sent by Sir J. T. Duckworth, commander in chief on that station, to enqnire into the transaction; to whom was likewise fully stated, by the committee, all the particulars, together with ShortUnd's previous infamous eonduct. Their scandalous misrepresentation of the same to the admiralty board, as will be seen in their statement No. 20, is truly characteristic of British official accounts. We likewise wrote to Mr. Henly on that daj, giving him a short history of the affair, but as he' did not acknowledge the receipt of the letter we concluded it had been intercepted. On the 14th we received a letter from him dated the 12tb, of which No. 18...

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