CELEBRATED NAVAL AND MILITARY TRIALS. BY PETER BURKE, =Serjeant-at-Law.= AUTHOR OF “CELEBRATED TRIALS CONNECTED WITH THE ARISTOCRACY,” AND OF “THE ROMANCE OF THE FORUM.” LONDON: WM. H. ALLEN & CO., 13, WATERLOO PLACE, S.W. 1866. =To his friend,= JAMES HOLBERT WILSON, WHOSE TASTES ARE SO CONGENIAL WITH HIS OWN, THE AUTHOR, WITH MUCH PLEASANT REMEMBRANCE, INSCRIBES THIS VOLUME. 3, SERJEANT’S INN, _Christmas, 1865_. CONTENTS. PAGE Admiral Benbow and his Treacherous Captains 1 Captain Kidd, a Pirate with a Royal Commission 21 Soldiers and Civilians in the time of William III. 49 The Trial of Admiral Byng 60 The Trial of Lord George Sackville 93 The Dockyard Incendiary, Jack the Painter 118 The Trial of Admiral Keppel 158 The Mutiny of the “Bounty” 200 The Mutiny at the Nore 229 The Trial of Governor Wall 264 The Trial of Colonel Despard 307 The Court-Martial on Vice-Admiral Calder 349 Trial of General Sir Robert Wilson and others for the Escape of Lavallette 376 CELEBRATED TRIALS, CONNECTED WITH THE ARMY AND NAVY. ADMIRAL BENBOW AND HIS TREACHEROUS CAPTAINS.