[COMMODORE DAVID PORTER]
A Report of the Trial of Commodore David Porter of the Navy of the United States.
Washington City: 1825
Size 6 by 9.5"
viii, 244pp, 68pp.
Modern half leather, uncut.
Some toning, foxing
FIRST EDITION, describing the Court Martial of Commodore David Porter and a review of the Court's decision.
David Porter is commanded the United States Frigate Essex in the War of 1812.
Despite its capture, Porter earned the praise of his countrymen for his bravery.
After a distinguished career in the War of 1812, Porter headed the West India Squadron, engaged in suppressing piracy.
One of his officers was roughly treated by officials in Puerto Rico.
Porter landed a retaliatory party, seized a fort and demanded, and received, an apology.
For this hostile action against a friendly power he was court martialed, found guilty and suspended for 6 months. ...convinced that he had been unjustly punished by his enemies, he tendered his resignation.
This is the full record of that trial, with Porter's defense appended.
"Eleven years after this Commodore Porter was court-martialed on charges of disobedience of orders, insubordinate conduct, and conduct unbecoming a naval officer; was convicted, and sentenced to be suspended from duty for a term of six months. Smarting from what he considered an injustice, he resigned, and accepted service with the newly created Republic of Mexico as commander-in-chief of its navy. He remained in this position for four years; it was productive of nothing but disappointment. In 1830, a year after his return to the United States, President Andrew Jackson sent him to Constantinople as the American diplomatic representative, where he remained until his death in 1843"
(see The Court-Martial of Commodore David Porter By Lieut.-Commander Edward L. Beach, U.S. Navy, October 1907).

With the bookplate of Charles Fleischmann III affixed to the front free endpaper.
Charles Fleischmann III, the great-grandson of the founder of the Fleischmann Yeast Company which opened in 1868 in Cincinnati, Ohio. After promoting the business at the 1876 Centennial Exposition the Fleischmann Yeast Company became the largest producer of yeast in the world.



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