All hands to a court martial..
[London : s.n.,
1745]
Title from text at head of design.
An engraving showing a crowd of persons issuing from the portico of the Admiralty Building, London. The most conspicuous persons are officers of the English Fleet lately commanded by Admirals Matthews and Lestock; they are enclosed by a cord, and conducted by Britannia towards the gates of a dockyard i.e. that at Deptford, where the court martial for their trial was assembled.
This print refers to the court martial on the officers who had been engaged in the fight off Toulon.
With a verse in four columns below design: "Shall British Glory rise again,"
George,
Lestock, Richard, 1679?-1746
Mathews, Thomas, 1676-1751
Austrian Succession, War of, 1740-1748
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry