Trial Stuart James Dunearn (1 results)
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Published by Edinburgh: Archibald Constable. 1822, 1822
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Add to basket(iv), (186), (20)pp. One letter in the appendix has been cut out also affecting text on recto. Uncut, sewn as issued, some dusting & edges sl. torn. Stuart, 1775-1849, Scottish Whig politician, fatally wounded Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck in a duel following a libellous attack on Stuart in the Glasgow Sentinel. Boswell fi…red his pistol in the air, but Stuart shot Boswell. Stuart fled to France, but on his return he was tried for wilful murder - and found not guilty.
