The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-25 00:00:00

Fri= the FRENCH :.IN7) DIJTCII PAPER►S.

PARIS, FEB. 1 G Thot^glt a. profOund• Filence!
reigns here in respeet to 'politics, still we are very,
Mr from being „in a state of iipaiviti: Our inde- •
fatigable Emperor is now labourirtg as much—in
the Cabinet - as he has hitherto done in the
Field: This, it is true, is attended with much less
danger; but with not less advantage. and glory.;
which, appears- from, the various measures lately;
adopted for the-regulatiop- and improvement of 'the;
interior; and these ithprovements arc nut without!
their importance in respeCt• to' our external-situation.
The Aron/tear' of the 17th inst,in;a Note 611 Lord •
CASTLERRAGII!S speech upon presenting The Trea-
ties with Foreign Poweri, contains the following ob-
servations. The Note refers to.that part of thespeech
in which he expresses his anxiety to have the Trea-,
ties undergo Parliamentary discussion
" Before the discussion 'shall have commenced,
the opinion of the Continent will be determined.
There wiil-be no occasion for the debates of
;English Parliament, to draw all the consequebces'
from this imprudent publication, ofWhiah it is sus-
ceptible.-
• " It results from these Treaties _of Co-operation,
AcceSsion, and Coalition, &c.
" I.Ttrat the Coalition was decided and concluded
the month of April, that ,is to-say, three ;m6iiihs;
before the Territory of Genoa had requested to be
united to France.

That with a 'simple promise of threernillions,
intended, according to . Lord CASTLEREAGH, for no
other purpose than that of extending the British
power,' she armed in her cause Russia and Austria;
that as she only disbtried these' three millions by
monthly instalments, she acquired the power of
overturning. the Continent, of making all its So-
vereigns at in contradidion to their own interests;
of rendering them subservient to her plans, and
.the orders of her Commissaries, without incurring any
other expellee than that' of The moderate sum of
about one million sterling._ So far England without.

doubt had made an excellent calculation.

" 3d. That England certalnly bad nbt risqued more
than-this Million sterling to effet this powerful diver-
sion,, but that in so doing she placed France in a situa-
tion to conquer Genoa,Vemce, and Naples; that she has
Voitred into Vrance upwards of two hundred
of livres; in contributions; that she has fully esta.!'
blished this principle, ackliowledg-ed for more...than
a century throughout Europe—that the Alliance
or England has always ended., in the ruin of those
Princes .who were 50 imprudent 'as •to accede
--to- it—a principle, the truth of which was con-
_ firmed not long ago, _by the fate of the Stadtholder
and the king of Sardinia, as it i 4 also, at this mo-
ment, by the misfortunes "of Austria, and the faa of
the King of Naples ;_ While, on the contrary, the al--

fiance of Franoe, always favourable for the Princes 1
tvhb engage in it, brings along with it aggrandiZe-
,bent and prosperity; witness BavariailVirtemburgh,
and Baden: Should England ever excite a fourth
Coalition, Austria, who lost Belgium by the first,
Italy and the left Baal( of the Rhine by the -second,
• • Tyrol, Suabia, and the Venetian territory by the
third, may, probably, lose her CrOWn by the fourth.
4tht That the Austrians and Russians, who so
itrartnly resisted being in the pay of. England, of haV,-
ing:even any connection with her itatposed. upon
Europe, that the same man, (141.Ds STA.DIO) who
is. at present at the head of the Austrian Councils,
had already commenced his Administration in these
, scandalous .negotiations ; that Russia did nothing
else but resume the part which she had continually
supported for the last fifteen years. The three Coa-
litions took plate under the reigns of threerdifferent
Russian SoVereigni. CATHERINE, who possessdd
genius, suffered- herself, notwithstanding, to tie
cnawn into the first; but' she restricted herself to
plans for inciting the other Powers. Like an able
and experienced Sovereign; like a Monarch who well
understood the extent of the inflUence,and the situ-
Oen of her Empire, ,she was *dons of engaging
herself farther.
" When the second coalition took place, PLITT,
ordered his Army to march ; but, on the first re-
verse, he Withdrew his troops ; he acknowledged his
error ; he hastened to return to a system in unison
vc ith the interests Of his Empire; he renewed his con- '
ne6lion with France, and restored policy to its na-
tural situation.
" ALEXANDER, yount and . inexperienced, fell
into all the snares of the English ; allowed himself
to be seduced by their declamations and their eulo-
giums, and scorning the eiample of his predecessor,
lie, overturned whatever good had been done by him.
Not content with having sent his armies into Ger-
many, he marched himself. Thus had he. an op-
portunity of seeing with his OWL) eyeS the destruo.-
tion of that phantom, of that colossus of military
reputation CATHERINE began to create, but of
which she was not the dupe ; fOr she well coMpre-
lended the difference which existed between the.
Russian Soldiers and the'French Feople
" 5. That the most extravagant ereclnlify had
subscribed to all these Treaties ; that they who dic-
tated or prepared them supposed that the Emperor
NAPOLEON had neither eyes, ears, or judgment
that this Army of '500,000 Frenchmen, which all
Europe knows could he increased to a million of sol-
- eliers, was to remain chained on this Side of their
'boundaries ; that their tziple row of fortresses;
which the frontiers of. France are bristled, contain--.
ed inhabitants and garrisons 'for' no other: iirpose.-
than to deliver up the keys of the citadels to the first _
Cossacks who should come to demand them ; that
all these sublime combinations, all these negetiatioris,
so far advanced in the month of April, wduld be con=
summated and crowned by great results hi the
ninth of becember. In WI, it was in the month
of December that all these great consequences took—
place ; that the Emperors of 'Russia arid Germany
found themselves too happy, the one to obtain, fromthe Emperor of the French the restoration of Vienna-
and his States, the other to return to. St. Petersburgh
with the feeble remains of his 'Anny:
fish, Finally, that there. was but one thing
wanting to these Powers--to be insulted by Eng
land ; and, in faCI, the English Government has suf-
ficiently manifested the contempt which he has for:
- her Allies, in tlras giving to the world secret 'Prea:
ties, the publication of which cannot but be very
disagreeable and injurious to the Sovereigns I.tho
have had the weakness to aceede to them. Out of
' fourteen articles of these Treaties.; said Lord CAS-
TLEREAGH, ' Jive_ are of a nature not to.be
Fished.' This suppression is. an additional proof of

the perfidy of the Cabinet ot Lendon. Aftei hay-
nig;disedt;tred7s(334laoy. (la evhcfalltsbould
concealed forthe' honour of its Alliesi% it is iutwiilin:q_
that the irnaginaf.n shoutti -.halt- 'We 'shall make
up for its silence, aril reveal this grand .myst%!ry.
The- fbilowing are the stipulationb!cottaitted in thebe
five articles:l--

;‘ Belgium-shall be restored to Holland.
The House of-Orange shall b 6 reinstatcd in its
dignity of StaClttiolder.•
.$ The Fortresses on the Meuse shall be delivered
up, as cautionaryl• towns, and garrisoned by Austrians
and Russians.,

;,Savoy;-acid the County of Nice, shall be united
to Piedmont • • • •

rirally, if the Success.Should' be equal to what is
hOped, the City cf Lyons is .to pass under the domi-
nions of the King of Sardinia.' • • •
_ _

t '1" Must not the British Cabinet, and its Agenti,
have possessed extraordinary: ability to .have given
-any kttidiof consistence to such illusions ? This is
what we will not take upon us to decide ; but how=
ever deadly the hate ofPEn4land, in spite of all the
influence which she may acquire in rousing the pas-
.sian.s of avarice and jealousy ; • the prosperity of
France will still increase,' and the French Empire,
established on its one hundred and eight Depart-
' inints, and its -Federative States,' will be full of
.youth and itrour, when Great Britain will perish
;through Ntieakness•and.decay..-:
" The influence of the French Empire over the
Continent will. produce the happiness' of Europe,
for it' .is. it that the Age of civilization, of
• science, of • information, and legislation will have
commenced !"

• Yesterday his Majesty gave a diplomatic audience.
The Court was extremely numerous and brilliant,
and the Emperor wore his favourite uniform.
A Letter from Buenos Ayres, by way of Cadiz;
dated Oa. Cs, says, ". We have bad the plea-
sure of • seeing L'Orient Privateer before Mon-
tevideo, with three. Frigatea and -a Brig, English
Prizes, one of 808 tons. There are nearly 800 Ne-
groes in these 'Prizes. L'Orient had eight men killed
,and 14-wounded in the conilia. The English had
80 killed and Irounded ; the captured vessels are,
the Fiigate Clarendon, of 800:tons, Carrying 18 car--
ronades, 12 pounders, and 80 men; the Frigate.
AR-ive, carries 22 guns, 10 pouncleis, 70 men ; the.
Frigate Rebeccrt, re guns, 65 men ; and the Brig
r slims, li.guns, 35 men, which were all taken upon
the coast of- Africa, and in the Straits of Malacca.
L'Oriott -carries 'l2. carronades, 24 pounders, 40
twelve pounders, two howitzers, and 270 men." '
_ _

Madame Br.wdnArto, wife to the famous aero- •
mut, ascended at BoOrdeaux on the' gth of this
month, for the fourth time. She rose with great
address, but being carried by the current of the
wind towards the river Garonne, she descended with
rapidity, and being unable to contend with. the at-,
traEtive force of the water she was obliged to follow
its impulse. A number Of boats immediately put
off to her assistanee, and after a short time, which
seemed very tedious to the numerous speaators, they
were so fortunate as to save her from the imminent
danger with which she was threatened. She was
condu&ed to her own house ; but happily received
neither fracture nor contusion. .
cardinal RUFF°, whose route we have traced to
Lyons,- has returned ; it is thought he is gone to
Geneva; -where he is to wait stich orders as his Ma-
jesty may be pleased to issue.
General SotturEa, who commanded three Batta-
lions of Light. Artillery at the Battle of Austerlitz,
is arrived from Presburgh at Paris ; but he
,only
traverses the capital -to proceed to Italy, to take
the command of the Light Artillery destined to od-
cupy Dalmatia.
AUGSBUEOII, FEB. 5.---The Austrian'Troops are
all returning.to their usual quarters, ;with, the ex-
ception of a few Reginients whose destination is
changed. The noble' Hungarian guard has set out
from Presburgh for Vienna. Four Battalions of the
Corps nnder Gen. CriisTEr,Ba have entered Gratz,
of which place they will form the Garrison.
. Count PALFYI3S; in a Proclamation addressed to
the Hungarians,
.requested them to supply provi-
sions, and other necessary articles, to the inhabitants
of Vienna and. Austrian Provinces, where, since the
departure of the 'French, the priOe of all articles of
foOd is considerably enhanced.
The Authorities' of Bavaria, Suabia, and other
Districts,. have' caused it to be notified to the inha-
bitants; that Viennaßank-notes will not be received
in the Public TreaSories of those places.
STUTGARDT, FEB, g.-.lntelligence has been re:
ceivo that the numercius Austrian Prisoners who
are in Frande; have .received permission to re- .4
turn honie. Several of the Austrian Generals
who were compelled to.stirrencier to the French, are
Under arrest. It is said,. that they have brought the
most serious charges agahist General MACK, whose
fate .will probably be. soon decided upen„ It is said
that the. City of Frankfort, and all that part of the
Tiandgraviate of Darmstadt, situated 'on the Left
Bank of the Mein, will be added to the Dominions,
of the Ekaor-ef:nA.tEy, and that the tandgrave of.
Darmstadt will be. indemnified in. Westaphalia;
that the Electoral Prince of ILtniir will reside in
fliture at Manheiw ; that lie will marry a French
Princess ; and that 'upon-. his acCiSioti to the GO-
VernMent he ,will take the title of KltiG.

. Mr. BERRY, the well-known Artist, died on Sub-
;day at his house, in Castle-street, Oxford-road. He.was a man as Conspicuous for his peculiarities as for
his talents ; but his character altogether was not
unworthy, of respe&. •
Died, early ton Sunday mOinint, At his 1161136 in
'Southampton-street; Bloomsbury; WILLiAm Do.L
NALDS.9'.n Essi. _
A FEMALE SWItiriLER.—A YOung,' woman, .abotit
years of age; *hose address and • Personal quali-
fications are suitable to her profession, hais been de-.
franding the credulous trades-people of the Metro-
--pelts of their goOdS, under the assumed name of
'Lady. Penfold, Bliss li"!_mford, and Mrs. liam'cg,
tle !widow, of a .Captain of. the /4avY. The depre-
dations we are about to speak of have been cotn-:
-rnitted wi.thin a fortnight. The: inipositich prhetiied
by her was discoVered LiVeryman, who' pro.-
vided her with a vehicle and pair of horses, with
which she haS deCa*ed from her temporary resi-
dence at Camden Town. Itkforniation has Veen re-
ceived of various frauds Committed by her on diffe-
rent trades-people, :and the Others of Justice arb.
I nor in search of her.

L 4 11' REPORT.

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COURT OI kiNG,s rtz.

Tut • V. rssc.

Mr. HAliTtiON opened. tills indidtment, which
stated, that the Defendant being employed in His
Majesty's" Service, in a Coitil and Military station out
of Great Britain, to wit, in tbb. Island of Trinidad,
did unlawfully, cruelly, and inhumanly •torture Lod-
Calderon, under the age of 14 years, by filing a
ropeth her wrist,; slinging her up to a cieling, and
fastening her hands and feet :on.a spike of :wood,
ke. on the 20th of December, in the year 1801

There were other codnt3 for a *common assault

which the Defendant pleaded Not Guilty, on. which
issue was joined.
Mr. GARiOW opened the case on the part. of the
Prosecution. He said, that the task of stating the

fans which belonged to this most extraordinary

and horrid transaction was, originally committed
to much abler hands .than his ; but -which now,
unfortunately for himself, had devolved on him.
'However,' he. felt some consoliktion on..retleaing,
that this was a case to he tried bdore an English
Court 'of Justice, whei-e:no.eloquetice was necessary,

and where a plain, statement of the fats was all that
would be: required ; and he had to lay before.
the Jury that statement, which he should prove to
them in a way which would force" from them a re-
luaant verdia of guilty, and without which proof

no such verdi6 ought to be obtained. He would
use .the words—a reludant verdi& of Guilty-.—be-

cause no person who heard, it, not excepting even
himself, whose duty it was to support theprosecu:

tion, would not be better pleaSed if the fads. would

justify the Jury in recording it, to hear them pro-

imun-ce " Nut Guilty." The case which this record

, . .
presented to them was, that the Representative of
His Sovereign, .in one of the Dependencies .of this'
_ . _ _

country, hound to protect the subjects of it against
ali species ofviolence; had abused his situation, and',
degraded the country to which he belonged, by in-'
flieting.what in England few had ever heard of, and:
had only read of with detestation and horror ; the
torture of one of His Majesty's subjects, without
the least pretence of law, the least justification, but
to gratify, on a helpless female, his tyrannical dis-
position to oppress.
The Island of Trinidad surrendered to His M-
ajesty's arms, under the great and justly renowned
Sir' R. 'Abercrombie, in the year 1797. On that oc-
casion that great character had taken the Island on
certain Articles of Capitulation, 'which -he granted to
the People of that Country, and rendered by law
the same as.formerly, and the business of Governor
devolved on the .Defendant. When Sir R. Aber-
croMbie left it, the same law was to be continued.as

under the. old Spanish Government, until His Ma-
jesty's pleasiire could be known, therefOre the law
WAS the same as that of the' Spanish Islands bet-ore
that conquest, and which werc ordered to exist by
Sir R.•AbercrOmbie, until His Majesty's pleasure
should be knowo,- and which laws were afterwards,
continued' by His • Majesty's Royal Proclamation,
and by -which the • inhabitants*. of Trinidad were
protefted. In the year 1801, it appeared that the
• person whose sufferings were now about to be laid
before the Jury,- Louisa Calderon, then of the age
of about i 0 or 11 years, had been seduced by a per-
. son of the tiameof Pedro Louis,. with Whom she had
lived as his mistress ; that to us in England,' ap-
•peared most horrible, but in that country young,
women became mothers at the age of 12, and those
who had not the good fortune to form an honour-
able connexion, got into a state -of concnbinage at
an early age. Thus it was, that 'this young creature
lived with this person, Don Pedro Louis ;- and as he
had nothing to conceal from the Jury on this occa-
sion, he should state to them at once, that when she
was thus living with this person, Wie was engaged in
an intrigue with Carlos Gonzales, who, in the' year
1801, availed himself of the intimacy which subsisted
bet Ween him and Louisa Calderon, to- get into the
house of Don Pedro Louis, and robbed him of:2000
dollars ; upon which Gonzales was taken into cus-
tody, and there being reason to sUspeCt that Louisa -
was acquainted with his guilt, she 'was also, toge-
ther with her mother, taken into custody. She was
taken before one of the Magistrates, who a&s, iii
the first instance, in this Island on such occasions,
and examined closely as to the .faas. She denied
any knowledge of- the transaction, and the Magi-
strate felt that, by the Law of Spain, his power
with regaid'to'her was at . an end. The young wo-
man having denied 'knowledge of the filet, whether
from her own consciousness of innocence, or froma
wish -to screen the young man -With whom slie had
been thus criminally intimate, was an inquiry not.
worth pursuing, the magistrate felt that he had' no'
authority to take any coercive means to procure
any knowledge from het -of her own-guilt, and he
resdrted to the Governor; and he had to state to the
Jury that he should produce,' in the -hand-writing.
of this Defendarit,•General Piton :he then.Gaver-.
nor of the Island of Trinidad, this • bloody sen-
tence" Inflict the torture on.. Louisa :Calderon
Signed with big own hand, " T. PiEton'% The
Jury would believe there was no great delay in the
executidri of this order: She was taken to ,the- jail for
the torture, where she was told; if she would con,
fess, all her limb's. would be spared; but if.she'did
not, and, Whet limbs were destroyed, (and•to alarm.
•her still incite) Whet torture ahould end in death, her
errors would fall on her own head and. to ,make this'
terror irresistible, they b'rau—ght negroe to ;praCliCe
npoti to shew het what she- was •to expeCt.;.. thus
had „the torture been introduced, for the first
time; into -a British Settlement; mid that by a
British subjeE, and that subjea the .RepreSetita-:
tive of his Snvereign there, -to extort confession
from a person under *emotion, 'in .dtdet to make
• her rieduse another. The young Woman persisted
in her intiocente; and then they proceeded td
itt-
fli& this putilahment upon her; a punishment which,
Mr. GARROW said, for want of a freper name is'
Balled picketing'; but in which it is Misnamed, for it'.
.should he PICTOIONG"—for, he said,:it was a libel
on the military pubishment ofoicketing, to resemble
it to this horrible aet of torture; in our •picketing.
the unhappy sufferer whom it became necessary to*.
chaStise for the purpose of preserving subordination
Add military discipline ;* had something like rest 3*
but in the torture which had been infliCted' on this
poor creative, thbre was nothing in the naturer of
rest,
but both the hands and feet were so' fastened,
that the pressure of the body 'was on a sharp piece
of. wood ;. and in this State of torture and torment

xi. this devoted young woman kept cot 45 tninup2':
ir? a watch held in the hands of_ one of the persolL,i

-who attended the horrld &ed.
_fp .tho-situ,::tion tiie
poor girl accused Gonzales.,; but. the confession .nbt
being considered 'satist.aiStery, she was in less than 24
hours sUbjeaed to.the,Sarne cruelty a second time ;
perhaps thk faithful representation ~of .the scene
would wOuld give the jary.an ;idea of thereality of tiTe
sufferings of its ,ObjeCl—(4lding up a pica; e it
which kid been drazonfiw the purpose of representing
the appeared to him' that the case which.
heliad to lay before the ,miry on the part of the pro.:
secution was complete.. His charge against, the
Governor was, that he had -abused his situation,

and, without probable cause or justification,
..inr
fli&cd this Funishrnent on this poor creature ; buz he

understood he was robe told that although the highest
.Magistrate in that 'Country -could not, do this; yet
that Govenior PiEtoti Wls justified in doiug it from

_ .
the Law of Trinidad. He should however-suppose
(subjeft to my Lord's correalon, to w4ich he should

implicitly bow), that whatever might have beet tilt;
pratlice in. Trinidad,. or, the, opinions of persons iti

Trinidad, there could be no exdu. se for -Governor
PiCton, for such an a(t of.inhumanity, unless he
could prove the imperious and at.,olute necessity of

it; unless he could chew that he had no choice

that the safety of the Maud dependedupon it, fol '
that otherwiSe he was to remember that ,he was a

British Subje6l, representing his Sovereign, bound
to enforce no law which. was repugnant to the titell
ings of common humanity; that one of the great in-

ducements our Enemies have to surrender to the

British, is the confidence they have in cur proteetiou
when they do, that when they became Subjeas of the
British Government, torture was at an end; but lie
should go further, and, until corrected by authorlty,
contend, that it was not enough for
.the Governor
.tashew that he might . iuiiia this punishment
the Law of Trinidad, but that lie mast make'cLit

case 'of absolute necessity for it, before' he tarnished
the British name with. so foul a deed. In England
torture was not known—it was not to be expelled
that we should know it here.; not because we did not
understand it, but on account of its. being so horrible

to our feeling ; and in the administration of Justice
in England it never had,been and never could be to

leratea. History indeed informed us, that in the
reign of Henry VI. it was recorded of the, Duke of
..Essex, that something of this sort was attempted, to
the infamy, of. bis nanie.for ever; of which we had
a good acenunt in Blackstone:s • commentarips, in
which it appeared that the Duke attentpted to intro-
, duce the torture of, the civil law, and .the rnachhle
was now in the Towei:, under the title of " tip
Duke of Essex's Daug-hter." .Another instance in
our history was the case of Fenton; who assassinated
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, when
,it.was prppos-
ed to put that villain to the.torture put a ques-
tion had been referred tos the_ Juc,lges, and they all
agreed that torture could 4orte„allineed by the Law
of England nor could it be imp-,4ted to Governor
ton that he was such a fool as to-suppos.the torture
could ever be useful in the discovery oftruth, as had
been most ably stated by Mr. ..I,u,tice BLACKSTOZSE
to be in its'very nature. that-which would make the
4 unhappy sufferer accuse any body,.or even accuse it-
self, falsely, from the excess of painand horror 5 and
it.had been matter of ealeptation.how Much tOrture
a person of a given firmness of •nette could bear
before he should begin to say any thing that is asked

of him, in-order to Tbe,. relieved.; was therefore a
waste .of :time to
.discuss the point as to torture being
an instrument to procure truth, or to suppose that
Governor_ PiEton could be so foolish as to exped. it
could produce any such effed; indeed, the absurdity
of it was so great, that even,
.SpaM itself, and other
Countries where it had been, prevalent, had become
ashamed of it, and had disused it for many years.
BuC said Mr. GAattow, " what 'Will you say is I
prove to you, by many -,witnesses, that so far, is
torture from being the daily' praCtice in Trinidad, and
that the Government there have used it, that-it was
never used there by aiiy body but Governor Pidon
himself; that he leas the merit of
.its introduaion.;
that the instrument, which resembles that which
'‘by way of ,infamy is called the " Duke of Essez's
Daughter," that is, an instrument of torture, bad
-no
existence until General Pieton. cursed Trinidad with
its presence.; that it was an instrument never. kno,wa
in that country until d-BritiskOovernor introduced '
it—the Representative of the Sovereign of 'lbis
mighty. Empire—who. thus sullied the British
charaCier; always so famed fur its humanity. British
if I present this case to you in this /i
jght
by proof, as I am assured -I-shall—if prpve to
you that there is.: no such Law as that by which
any torture can be infliCted=that there wak. no
.instrnment.. by which :torture could have been
infliCted until General Pitton brought it. into T.rini-
dadif I prove that this punishment of torture:has
. been• infliEted on this poor helpless. young I
;prove; in the hand-writing of GeneTal PiCton
self, the bloody order for its infiidion, I shall lOve
:the ,General. absolutely without the shadow of a case
to defend him.. Gentlemen, the date I gave you of,this
transdellow; reMovecifroM the present
time,:and may be said to' be far removed from it,
being- :1801.:: h became expedient, in the minds of
His Majesty's MinisterS, to entrust certain powers
:of investigation-and direetion,to Commissioners ap-
pointed for. that purpose ;. one o> those was Colonel
Fullarton,. 'who took .much; :trouble to diScovet
many evils which required a remedy, and this among
.them`. The scene being disclosed tb him, he felt it
his duty=---a duty he.owed;to the British charader.and
to common humanity—,:to bring it for inquiry, asiit is
•now, before you; for which, I think, his country is
indebted to him. Gentlemen, I have seen the :un-
happy brim of this cruelty, 5., I saw her thiS morn-
in ,'in a room which I entered by mistake, thinking
it was one in which a
.cousultatiun 'was to be held.
'-;--She shall be • presented to you,_ .and you shall
hear her...tale. . Geutlemen,; 7 I 7sha4 hear, with
as much patience . and attention, and, with as
murch real tAeasure as any man in Court, the -Ad-
dress which will be delivered' to you on behalf of
.the befendaiit, by my excellent and most'eloquent
Prien'd,;ll4-r. DALLAS: lint I slrall state to you with
confidence; notwithstandingliny addres that can be
Macrd'in you, that I sli.lll obtain your verdict. I
ask trot of your passions, bdt of your justice, a vet-
dia of guilty against this Defendant ; for although,
you' must feel, that while you give it you put one bi-
yotti' felloW Subjeas,- of high rank, in an hOrrible
situation, yet you feel' it to be your duty, and there-
: fore, -whatever the consequence may be to the indi-
: •-vklual; you will disci-.aige that duty to your Country.'

Louisa Calderon was called, and exatnined. Her
appearance was extremely interesting, and her coun-
tenance, which was'that of a Mulatto, extremely
pre-possessing and agreeable., She seemed about
sixteen. She gave her evidence in Spanish. She
said she *as in -Trinidad in the year 1798, and was
acquainted with a person of the name of Pedro Louis,
in whose house she lived. She was with him at the
time General PiEton was Governor—remembered a
robbery having beeri coMmitted in, the house of Pe-
dro Louis, of which a peTSOII, named Carlos Gon-
zales., was suspended. Re was taken 'up, and the
-witness and her mother were likewise taken up'the
same night. She was carried in the first instance
before General PiEton, who ordered her to be COP-
ZuEted to prison. She was sent under the •guatirof
'three soldiers, and committed to close confinement.
General Pieton told her, that -if she did not confess
who had taken the money the-hangman should put
his hand upon her. Witness knew a man of the
name of Bemiara ; he was an Akald, or Justice. He
came to her in the prison, and examined her fre-
•quently on-the subject of the robbery ; there was a
.person named De Castro,, an Ecrivano, or Clerk,
present. - It was a room on the woman's side of the
Prison. She was afterwards carried to a room where
there was a picket ere&ed.
-Mr. GARROW.—What was the nature of that in-
strument of torture—can you give an account in
English ?—A. Yes, Sir. • This hand • (holding out
her left) was tied up so-(raising her left hand, and
'stretching her body) ; --then this hand (the right) and
this foot (passing the left foot behind the right leg)
-were tied together. They put me first on one side,
and then on the osher.
Q. The first time they tied you up, they tied you
by the left hand ?—A. Yes.
Q. And the left foot tied to thoright hand ?—A.
•Yes, the tight.,
Q. Then the left hand was tied by a lope ?—A.
Yes.
• Q. Was that rope fixed to the cieling, or made
fast to a pulley ?—A. A pulley.
Q. What was your right foot put on ?—A. On a
picket, in this wanner (describing it by her attitude)
the-.toe resting on the sharp part of the wood.
• Q. Is this a thithful description (sheaving her a
'coloured drawing) Yes, Sir.
Q. Can you tell how long you might remain in
this situation ?—A. Three quarters of an hour.
• Q. Were you allowed to rest on the spike of wood
lI the time ?—A. Yes, Sir.
Q. Were you at any time drawn up by the rope,
so as to•be suspended ?—A. Yes, Sir.
a. Had you seen any person placed in the same
situation ?—A. Yes.
Q. How many !—A. Two. '
[The Witness then proceeded to describe the ef-
fed produced by the torture. She felt a heavy pain,
and her wrists and feet were very much swelled.
She was afterwards taken to a room carted the Gaol-
er's Room, and from thence brought back to the
room where she had been suspended, and there kept
• all night in irons.]
a. Describe the gritto, ot fetters, you were con-
fined with ?—A. It is a piece of wood with a hole
below it, and an iron bar that .runs through it.
Q. Were you fixed to that iron bar ?—A. Yes,
all the same night.
Q. How were you fixed?.---A. -The bar was made
fast to my legs with iron rings.
Q. Did you remain fastened to this all night ?
A. All night. ,
Q. Were you put on the picket again next day ?

•
—A. Yes.
Q. Were you put on the same instrument of tor-
ture, and in the same manner as the day before ?
A. The very same.
Q. How long were you kept on the instrument
of torture ?--A. Twenty-two minutes.
Q. Was there a watch plaCed in order to tell the •
time ?—A. Yes. -
Q. Who were present ?—A. Mr. Beggara, the
Justice, De Castro, the Ecrivano, Signor Rafael, the
Alguazil, and the Executioner.
Q. What arin was you tied up by the second day?
By the two arms.
Q: One at a time Yes; -first -one, then
changed to the other.
Q. Were -you drawn up by the rope the, second
day, so ,as to remove your feet from the spike ?—A.
Yes, I could just touch it with the point of the toe.
- Q: Were your shoes taken- off both days ?
A. Yes.
Q. Your feet naked ?—A. Yes. -• .
Q. What•effea did this produce the second day ?
I fainted away.
The witness went on to describe the rest of her
sufferings. She stated, that she remained eight.
Months in the prison, during the whole of which
time she was kept in irons. She said .Colonel
Ful-
larton arrived at, the Island after she was liberated.
She came ovelr to-Englund with Colonel Fullarton,.
and had been since supported by Mr. White, at the
charge of the British Government.
Signor Rafael, the Alguazil, supported the whole
of Louisa's testimony. He first saw her when she was
taken down from the picket, and they were giving -
he r a glass of wine and water. After nearly the same
evidence as the girl, he added that the room in which
she was ironed for eight months by the legs, wins so
low that it would not admit ot her sitting erect, but
she was obliged to crouch, down. He described the
operation of the torture, and said, Louisa Calderon
'fainted twice in his arms. It appeared to him: she
could not have endured it much longer withotit dan-
ger to her life. There was no surgeon present to
take care of her-in case of accident. He said, that
at the end of eight months Carlos Gonzales was or-
dered to pay a scam of money, and was banished, and
Louisa was set at liberty..
-Don Juan Montez proved the hand-writing of Go-
vernor Pi&on to the order for intlitling the torture.
It was in Spanish, and ran thus—
" Applique/ la questioue a Louis; Calderon; i. e. apply
the torture to Louisa Calderon.
(Signcd) " THOMAS PICTON."
It appeared that this order was written at the bot-
tom of a requisition by Beggara, stating that Louisa
Calderon had prevaricated in her account of the
robbery ; that Beggara was persuaded she would dis-
cover the truth by means of a slight torment, but that
he was not invested with power to inflict it, and there-,
fore praying his Excellency. to order The same. The
witness stated, that he never knew torture inflicted
in the Island of Trinidad till General Piton arrived