Fics like Notes on the Minutes of a Court-Martial Held at Admiralty House, Whitehall, Beginning Monday, the Third Day of September, 1849, and Continued Till Tuesday, the Eighteenth Day of December, 1849

Shortly after the termination of the court-martial, held at the Admiralty Hall of London, on Captain Francis R.M. Crozier, FRS FRAS, on the subject of his conduct, as captain of the failed expedition to the High North, two pamphlets, purporting to contain the proceedings in full made their appearance; but as one of them was confessedly defective, having been authored by an observer outside the court, and the other was evidently garbled, no notice was taken of either. Such omissions therefore called for those elucidations which will be found in the following pages; and which are submitted, in no other spirit, and to no other end, than to diminish the labours of the public, in forming their conclusions, and ultimately deciding upon the matters that those minutes embrace.

Fics like Notes on the Minutes of a Court-Martial Held at Admiralty House, Whitehall, Beginning Monday, the Third Day of September, 1849, and Continued Till Tuesday, the Eighteenth Day of December, 1849

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