By JOHN MCARTHUR, ESQ.

Late Secretary to Admiral Lord Viscount Hood, &c.
Officiating Judge Advocate at various Naval Courts Martial during
the American War,

And Author of "Financial and Political Facts of the Eighteenth
and present Century."

THE SECOND EDITION,

On an entire new Plan, with confiderable Additions and Improvements,

IN TWO VOLUMES,

VOL. I,

LONDON:

Sold by J. BUTTERWORTH, in Fleet-ftreet; T. EGERTON, Whitehall ;
R. FAULDER, Bond-ftreet; W. MILLER, Albemarle-ftreet; and
Meffrs. RICHARDSONS, Cornhill.

Strahan and Prefton, Printer's Street.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

SAMUEL LORD VISCOUNT HOOD,

ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET,

AND

GOVERNOR OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GREENWICH, &c. &c. &c.

PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST EDITION.

IT has been the fubject of regret, in his Majesty's naval fervice, that many branches of the profeffion have been fo little treated upon, and explained by men whofe official fituations have afforded them the best opportunities of collecting information. And of all the yet untrodden paths, none furely is of greater importance than that which is the fubject of the following fheets: as there is not an individual within the boards of a king's ship who must not feel himself deeply interested in the difcuffion of the law of Courts Martial.

The many irregularities or deviations in form, into which the members of Courts Martial are unknowingly

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