8vo. 271pp, [5]. With five final pages of publisher's advertisements. Uncut in modern half-calf, marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Book-label of Rev. Walter Sylvester and bookplate of Ron C. Fiske of Morningthorpe Manor to FEP, typed booksellers description pasted to recto of FFEP, leaves toned and spotted.

The first edition of the report of the trial of army officer and colonial administrator Edward Marcus Despard (1751-1803) on charges of high treason. Despard had organised a conspiracy in which he hoped to combine an army mutiny with a rising in London to assassinate King George III and capture the Tower of London and the Bank of England. His plot became known, and he was arrested. Though Lord Nelson, a former colleague, testified on his behalf, he was convicted and executed.