Item #105158 Debates in the House of Commons, on the Tenth Day of March, 1794, upon the Motion of Mr. Adam, in Behalf of Muir and Palmer. Transportation.
Debates in the House of Commons, on the Tenth Day of March, 1794, upon the Motion of Mr. Adam, in Behalf of Muir and Palmer

Debates in the House of Commons, on the Tenth Day of March, 1794, upon the Motion of Mr. Adam, in Behalf of Muir and Palmer

Edinburgh, Printed and sold by J. Robertson, [1794].

Octavo (205 x 135 mm), 34 pages.

Recent marbled papered boards, with a paper title-label on the spine; edges browned; light scattered foxing; a very good copy.

Thomas Muir (1765-1799) and the Reverend Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747-1802), both political reformers, were two of the Scottish Martyrs transported to New South Wales in 1794 for sedition. Their untimely deaths were one direct outcome of their transportation. Ferguson 193 (and 180a in the 'Addenda, 1784-1850' volume). For important information relative to this item, see the footnote to Ferguson 173 ('Speech of William Adam, Esq. in the House of Commons ...'). 'William Adam brought before the House ... the question of reversing the sentences of Muir and Palmer on the grounds of want of legality and failure to exercise proper discretion.... The vote, however, went against Adam's motion by a large majority [171 to 32]. Sheridan and Fox took part in this historic debate, the latter criticizing the trial very warmly'.

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