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Vice Adml Lestock's defence to the court-martial; : giving a short view of the nature of his evidence, as also A recapitulation of the evidence on the Crown-side. And a narrative of the distresses and difficulties he has labour'd under since his suspension, which were intended to have been finished, and laid before the court-martial, with proper observations, and an application made on the whole, had not the court, after examining only twenty-eight of his witnesses, of a list of one hundred and forty-eight, declared themselves satisfied, and so far determined the cause before them, as to resolve any further evidence in behalf of the prisoner unncessary. Together with A sentence on Vice-Admiral Lestock