Narratives of State Trials in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Narratives of State Trials in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 of 2: First Period, From the Union With Ireland to the Death of George the Fourth, 1801 1830, From the Union to the Regency, 1801 1811 It is proposed, in these volumes, to present in a popular form the incidents of such of the State Trials during the first thirty years of the present century as appear most clearly to exhibit the political and social phases of that period, and as "rich storehouses of curious and authentic facts illustrative of human character and conduct." Hence the cases now given are not confined to mere judicial inquiries in our criminal courts, but embrace investigations by other competent jurisdictions - such as the humiliating inquiry instituted by the House of Commons, in 1809, into the gross traffic in commissions and promotion in the army, and in civil appointments, through immoral female influence, and the claim to the Berkeley Peerage in 1811, characterized by Lord Lyndhurst as "a dreadful measure of perjury and guilt." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.