The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JUNE IS.

lt.:1 : century performing' nearly the same casts of character.
We hope that the rage of retirement will not spread itself any
farther among the veterans of the stage : it is with great uneasi-
aess that we look forward to the departure of Mr. Lewis.
TINE ARTS.

sion, this picture surpasses any thing of the same kind, that we
for a long time have seen : the eagerness of the countenance la
catching, and we feel ourselves animated while we gaze. •
20. Maternal Affection. A. J. OLIV ER, A.
" Who sate and watched my infant head,
46 When sleeping on my cradled bed ? a
" My mother!"
This picture is not without faults : but where the general feel-
ing is true to nature and to taste, little de%iation, snottlit not be
minutely scanned, particularly in a young artist. The attitude
and expression have great tenderness : and the softness and en-
itesty of the colouring are well adapted to the temper of Mae
-übject.

LAW REPORT.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER,
SATURDAY, JUNE 11.
TRIAL OF GOVERNOR PICTON FOR TORTURE.
This was an indictment against the Defendant, charging biro
with applying the torture to Louisa Cauldrone, a girl 19 years,
old, in the Island of Trinidad. The Defendant had been cm-
victed of the offence, with which he stood charged, but a success-
ful application for a new trial had been granted, on the growls
that the Defendant, as Governor of the Island of Trinidad, tee
justified in inflicting the torture by the laws of Spain.
Mr. Garrow, for the Prosecution, opened the case eloquemiy.
It was not his intention to take up the time of the Court by a
detail of the facts, which the Jury would have better fans
Louisa Cauldrone ; hut the case the Learned Counsel .described
as being one which deeply interested the public, inasmuch as it
involved the character. of the British name, by charging a Bridsle
Governor with cruelties which Englishmen would shudder at.
The Learned Counsel commented at considerable length on the
alleged conduct of the Governor, and at the conclusion of his
speech he observed that he should reply to any defence that
might be set up in order to justify the conduct of the Defends**.
Louisa Cauldron was examined. She stated that she lived
servant to Pedro Louis, in the 1.-land of Trinidad, in the year
1801. A robbery had been committed in the house of her wes-
ter, and witness was taken into custody on suspicion, as 14.41 M also,
a man whom she knew of the name of Carlos Goes:dee, and they
were taken before Governor Picton, who said that if w 410.14
did not confess who committed the robbery, he would deliver
her over to the hangman. Witness was guardA to prison, and
after 11 days confinement she was taken before Mr. Begerat, to
ss horn she denied any knowledge of the robbery. In the even-
ing the witness was taken to the picket, and put upon it, the
right hand being fixed to a pulley on the ceiling, and the Left
leg on the picket. whilst the other arm and leg were bound to-
gether behind her, and in that situation wkness fainted, and
she could not say haw long she had undergone the torture. He-
gerat was present at the torture, and on being questioned by
him, witness confessed that Gonsalee had committed the robbe-
ry ; and this confession was made whilst under torture. After
having been taken down, witness was put in heavy irons, aart
sent again to prison, and the following day was put ou the picket,
in which situation she remained Merit), minutes. She was
again questioned as to the robbery, and she made the same con-
fession to Begerat that (ionsalez was the thief. Witness wits
afterwards confined eight months in irons, and she was so much
injured that she could not stand upwright. Her wrists awl
under her arms were parts so much injured that she had not yet
recovered ; and at the time of the iatliction of the torture, she
was not more than 14 years of age, and had lased two sears in
the service of Pedro Louis. Witness stated that she had cot a
person to defend her, our was nay one ;remitted to have acqess
to her. She had been picketted without food, and the pain seas
very bad. Witness was at length di-charged by the order of
Governor Piston.
Mr. Garrow was about to call other witnesses, when Mr..
Dallas admitted the torture. The Learned Counseljust:tied the
conduct of Governor Picton upon various grounds, the most ma-
terial of which was, that the laws of Spain authorised torture,
and consequently the conduct al the Governor was justifiable,
for be was bound by the terms of the capitulation to enforce the
existing lass sof the place. The Defendant had acted by the
advice of one of the Judges of Trinidad, and the girl's crease
was of a nature, which in this country would have subjected her
to an ignominious death.
The Learned C6uusel proceeded to justify the Defeedant's
conduct tt great tenth, and aith coasidcrable after