_A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death._--In the first volume
of _Eastern Europe_, published in London by T. C. Newby, in 1846, it is
thus recorded:
"During the administration of Spencer Perceval, on the 8th of May,
1811, the Honourable A. W. Hodge, a member of his Britannic Majesty's
council at Tortola, was executed for the murder of one of his negroes
by excessive flogging."
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Might I ask if there is any other instance known of a gentleman's having
suffered similar punishment for the same crime, during the period the West
India islands were held as slave colonies of England?