The Arrest of John Morgan Esqr Merchant at Singapore Octr 1824. by John Crawford Esqr Resident. formerly Doctor on the Companies service & late Ambassador to the Court Bankok in Siam and Umrapoorah in the Burmese Empire...

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Isaac Robert Cruickshank (1789-1856)
The Arrest of John Morgan Esqr Merchant at Singapore Octr 1824. by John Crawford Esqr Resident. formerly Doctor on the Companies service & late Ambassador to the Court Bankok in Siam and Umrapoorah in the Burmese Empire...
the image numbered in ink and inscribed, by John Morgan, with a key to the subjects in the margin and further signed and inscribed 'Satis This is the Plate for my Piec. ... y[ou]rs tr[ul]y Jn Morgan', addressed 'To Milner, Crown Court' on the reverse
hand-coloured etching, published by Peter Wilkins Esqr, May 1827
9½ x 13in. (24.2 x 33cm.)

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John Morgan, a merchant in Singapore, was arrested by John Crawfurd, the Resident of Singapore, for shipping a consignment including salt-petre, firearms and canons to Thailand without the Resident's consent. The arrest was made in August 1824 (not October as stated on the print). Morgan's fellow merchants intervened to save him from being sent to Calcutta for trial. Cruikshank's satirical depiction of the arrest appears to have been produced either for, or in support of, John Morgan.

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