Considerations on the question lately agitated in Westminster-hall
Subtitle: whether the proceedings of commanders in chief of fleets and armies, acting within the military powers delegated to them, and in the course of discipline, are subject to the review of the civil courts of law : with observations on the case which has given rise to this important question, and on other points which have occurred in that cause / by William Pulteney, Esq
Contributors: Sutton, Evelyn, Capt; Johnstone, George, 1730-1787
Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly
Published: 1786
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Military law; Trials, litigation; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Early works to 1800; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Great Britain
Notes: "At a court martial assembled ... January, 1781 ... the court ... proceeded to enquire into the conduct and behaviour of Captain Evelyn Sutton, commander of His Majesty's ship Isis, on the 31st of last month, when he fell in with and engaged a Dutch ship ... and how far he did his utmost to take or destroy her."--Note, p. 5.

With reference to Capt. Evelyn Sutton's suit against Commodore George Johnstone.

Signatures: A-I⁴.

ESTC, T165217

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