The Trial of Joseph Wall, Esq. Late of Goree for the Wilful Murder of Benjamin Armstrong, a Serjant of the African Corps, At the Old Bailey, On Wednesday, January 20, 1802. To Which is Added an Account of the Execution. Third edition: With a Plate of an African Flogging a British Soldier

London: Printed by A. Macpherson for J. Lee, 1802. 22, 4 pp. The piece lacks wraps but includes the unusual plate of British Soldier Benjamin Armstrong flogged by an African. Joseph Wall (1737- 1802) was born in Ireland and described in several accounts as a volatile but good soldier serving in Cuba, India, and West Africa. Jailed in West Africa for cruelty, he traveled back to Ireland and England when released-later convicted of coercing a woman to marry him and killing an associate. Offered Lieutenant-governorship of Goree, he had a man flogged to death on his voyage to his new position.
Once in his new position, Wall ordered seven soldiers flogged for questioning why they received only partial pay. Three died. When he returned to England, he feared arrest and moved to France and Italy for several years but returned to England, was arrested, faced trial, and was convicted and hung.