I have here for sale a book entitled THE TRIAL OF JAMES THOMAS EARL OF CARDIGAN BEFORE THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF PEERS, IN FULL PARLIAMENT, for FELONY, ON TUESDAY THE 16th DAY OF FEBRUARY 1841. Published in 1841 by ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF PEERS, London. 

Cardigan was prosecuted in 1841 for injuring in a duel one of his former officers, another long-serving professional.[44] He was acquitted on a legal technicality, notwithstanding his boast on arrest that "I have hit my man". The prosecution had demonstrated that Cardigan – on this occasion using a sophisticated duelling pistol with concealed rifling and a hair trigger (supplied by the Mayfair gunsmiths Manton and Hudson) which was thought unsporting according to the usages of duelling – had fired upon Captain Harvey Tuckett.[45][46] The indictment, however, was that the victim had been "Harvey Garnet Phipps Tuckett". Evidence was received from an army agent paying Tuckett's army pension that this was indeed the full name of Captain Tuckett of the 11th Hussars, yet the discrepancy in the wording of the charge allowed the jury of his peers, 120 in number, unanimously to acquit him;[47][48] as a nobleman the law of the time allowed him to be tried for a capital crime before the House of Lords sitting as a jury, with Lord Denman (acting as Lord High Steward) as judge. This added to his unpopularity, with The Times alleging that there was deliberate, high-level complicity to leave the loop-hole in the prosecution's case and reporting the view that "in England there is one law for the rich and another for the poor" and The Examiner describing the verdict as "a defeat of justice".[48][49] Even his obituary described this evasion of justice as "an absurd technical deficiency".

Bound in purple linen boards. Gilt title lettering on the spine. The spine and board edges are sunned. Board edges are bumped. Yellow endpapers. Inscription on the ffep. Light foxing through the book. This book is in good condition, tightly bound with no loose or missing pages. 123pp; 27cm x 17cm.

Postage and packing : I know that you will be looking forward to receiving your order, each book is carefully wrapped in packing paper ( I have changed from bubble wrap to try and reduce my use of plastic) and posted in a Jiffy bag if size permitting, if not it is double wrapped in corrugated cardboard, brown paper and then securely taped. 

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If you place an order and payment is received after Monday 12.00 noon your order will be posted out Thursday morning. If you require your book urgently please contact me and I will do my best. :)

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