A REPRESENTATION OF
Governor WALL

Ordering Serjeant B. ARMSTRONG, WITHOUT A TRIAL, to be tied to a gun, at Goree, in Africa, and inhumanly flogged by Black Slaves, who were changed every twenty-five laſhes.

JOSEPH WALL, Eſq. was executed at the Old Bailey, on Thursday, Jan. 23, after being twice repited, for the inhuman Murder of Serjeant Armstrong, nearly twenty years ago. So much had the cafe of this unfortunate Gentleman intereſted the public, that the number of ſpectators who attended his execution has been eſtimated at nearly 100,000. The populace, very improperly, gave three huzzas when he made his appearance on the platform —and repeated them again when he was cut down, in token of approbation.

A COPY OF VERSES,
ON THE MELANCHOLY OCCASION.

YOU Governors of each degree,
Attention now pray give to me,
While unto you I will relate,
Of Governor Wall's moſt awful fate:
So Governors all where'er you be,
Think on the fall of Governor Wall,
Well-a-day, &c.

In seventeen hundred and eighty-two,
He was Governor in Goree, 'tis true;
On the tenth of July, that very day,
It prov'd his awful deſtiny.

The men for their arrears did beg,
That before he went they might be paid;
But their remonſtrance he would nor hear,
But threatened to flog them moſt ſevere.

Then Serjeant Armstrong he fingled out,
For to be puniſhed without doubt;
He bid him ſtrip immediately,
Up to a gun then they did him tie.

Eight hundred laſhes he was order'd then,
To be inſliſted by black men;
All mercy to him he deny'd;
In a few days afterwards he dy'd.

In eighteen hundred and two he was try'd and caſt,
And death the ſentence on him paſt,
On Thursday he executed was,
As a warning to all Governors.

Printed and fold by J. DAVENPORT, 6, George's Court, St. John's Gate, London.—Where may be had, price 6d. the Trial of Governor Wall, including a Biographical Account of his Life, and the whole Particulars of his Execution.