6. _The Trial of Governor Wall._ With particulars of his escape at Reading in 1784 and his subsequent surrender in 1802. Fred Farrah, 282 Strand, (The Only Edition Extant). Brit. Mus. Copied from earlier accounts. II. CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES 1. _The Public Advertiser_, March 1784. 2. _The Gazetteer and New Advertiser_, August 14, 1783, and March 1784. 3. _The General Evening Post_, March 1784. 4. _The Bath Chronicle_, do. 5. _The Bristol Journal_, do. 6. _The London Gazette_, March 9, 1784. 7. _The Times_, March 1784, January 1802. 8. _Morning Post_, July 21 and August 12 and 13, 1783, March 1784, January 1802. 9. _Morning Chronicle_, March 1784, January 1802. 10. _Morning Herald_, do. do. 11. _St James’ Chronicle_, do. do. 12. _Lloyd’s Evening Post_, do. 13. _The True Briton and Porcupine_, do. 14. _The Star_, do. In the _Morning Post_ of August 13, 1783, there appears the report of the court-martial held at the Horse Guards on July 7 and following days, which practically acquitted Wall of the charges brought against him by Captain Roberts. The _Gazette_ of March 9, 1784, contains the King’s Proclamation, dated March 8, describing the personal appearance of the escaped prisoner, and offering a reward of £200 for his apprehension. To those who consult contemporary journals for a first time there will come a surprise, for they will learn that Governor Wall on July 10 and 11, 1782, flogged to death not _one_ man but _three_. No account later than the Espriella Papers, and not one of the many _Newgate Calendars_, gives this information. Surgeon Ferrick’s letter appeared in _The Times_, February 5, 1802. 15. _The Gentleman’s Magazine_ (1784), part i. p. 227; (1802), part i. p. 81. The January number, 1802, endorses the statement that Augustine Wall, the brother of the Governor of Goree, was “the first person, who presumed to publish Parliamentary Reports with the real names of the speakers prefixed.” This evidence is important, as Sylvanus Urban might have grudged such an admission. His own claims, however, are set forth very modestly. “Dr Johnston (in our magazine) dressed them (_i.e._ the speakers in Parliament) in Roman characters. Others gave them as orators in the senate of Lilliput. Mr Wall laid the foundation of a practice which, we trust for the sake of Parliament, and the nation, will never be abandoned.” 16. _The European Magazine_ (1802), pp. 74, 154-157. 17. _The Annual Register._ Appendix to Chronicle, pp. 560-568. NOTES NOTE I.--_Dict. Nat. Biog._