This tract is advertised in the Morning Chronicle, February 9, 1802.
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.