Courts of Inquiry. Minutes of the Proceedings... of Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1808

Courts of Inquiry. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court of Inquiry upon the Treaty of Armistice and Convention of Cintra, and upon the Conduct, Behaviour and Proceedings of Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Dalrymple, Knt... from accurate notes in short hand, 1st edition, London: W. Flint for Samuel Tipper and John Booth, 1808, 73 pp. plus appendix, text in double column, close-trimmed at top margin shaving some pagination, 6 pp. prospectus bound at rear (some spotting), later red half morocco, a few stains, 8vo, together with Stockdale (John Joseph). The Proceedings on the Enquiry into the Armistice and Convention of Cintra, and into the conduct of the officers concerned, 1st edition, London: for Stockdale, junior, 1809, 5 folding engraved plans, some light offsetting and spotting, modern half calf, 8vo, plus The Trial of Colonel Quentin, of the Tenth, or Prince of Wale's Own Regiment of Hussars, by a General Court-Martial, held at Whitehall on Monday, the 17th of October, 1814, and continued by adjournment, till Monday, 31st of October, 1814. Taken in short-hand by Mr. W.B. Gurney, London: Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 2nd edition, 1814, half title, folding table, publisher's catalogue at end, a little light spotting, original boards, rebacked, some edge wear, 8vo, with 2 others: A Plain Statement of Facts, relative to Sir Eyre Coote: containing the official correspondence and documents connected with his case, and the proceedings of the Military Board appointed for its investigation, 1816, and The Proceedings of a General Court Martial, held at Warley Camp, the 18th Day of July, 1781, upon Captain Thomas Bridge Littell, and Captain Thomas Baxter Aveling of the Cambridgeshire Regiment of Militia, 1782

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The first two inquiries concern the events around the controversial Convention of Cintra, a treaty which enabled cut off French troops in Portugal to be evacuated after Sir Arthur Wellesley had defeated them at the Battle of Vineiro. Sir Hew Dalrymple and Sir Harry Burrard had arrived at that point and superseded Wellesley, and not wishing to antagonise the French agreed terms and nearly 21,000 French troops were transported by the Royal Navy to Rochefort in France in October 1808. This went down badly to say the least in Britain and although they were cleared at the inquiry, Dalrymple and Burrard, old men now, were quietly pensioned off.

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