Inhuman torture!! Fairburn's edition of the trial of Thomas Picton, late Governor of Trinidad and Colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot, for torturing Louisa Calderon in the island of Trinidad in the month of December, 1801 ... Which was tried at the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster on Monday, Feb. 24, 1806 before Lord Ellenborough & a special jury / Taken in short-hand.

  • Thomas Picton
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Credit: Inhuman torture!! Fairburn's edition of the trial of Thomas Picton, late Governor of Trinidad and Colonel of the 54th Regiment of Foot, for torturing Louisa Calderon in the island of Trinidad in the month of December, 1801 ... Which was tried at the Court of King's-Bench, Westminster on Monday, Feb. 24, 1806 before Lord Ellenborough & a special jury / Taken in short-hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parent on vour person ?—A, On my wrists there are. but none on my feet. [The witness now exposed the scam or callus. formed cu her wrists in consequence of the torture.] To some questions, on the cross-examination by Mr. Dallas, she said, that she did not know how long she had been re- leased before she was brought over: that she came with Co- lopel Fullarton, and that she -had been maintained by Mr. White, of the Treasury. Don Rafael Chandos, sworn, (assisted by the interpreter) said, that he was an Alguazil. in the island of Trinidad, in the year 1S01 ; that he returned from the interior of the country on the C2d of December, and saw Louisa Calderon in gaol; that they were then giving her a glass of water, after bringing her down from the torture. She was supporting herself on a table; it was about seven o'clock in the evening. Bcggorat elesired witness to bring Carlos up, and told her, that she must repeat to Carlos what she had said to him- After this interview, at which nothing transpired, she was instantly put. in the griUos, and in the same room in which she had suffered the torture. The apartment was like a garret, with sloping sides, and the gri/hs were so placed, that, by the lowness of the room, she could by no means raise herself up during the eight months of her confinement. On the $3d of December she was again put to the torture, bet were, eleven ami twelve in the morning, and she remained in this situation twenty-tvso minutes by the watch. [The witness here examined felie drawing, and described the position much in the way it had been before represented, ant<l then added :] She fainted twice in his arms. Beggorat sent vinegar to the executioner, to administer toher in this situation. There was no advocate appointed to attend on her behalf, and no Surgeon to assist her. No one but a negro belonging to Bullo the gaoler, to pull the rope. As soon as she was taken clown she was put into the grit/us. [Thewitness had seen her sister bring her victuals, but never noticed t he admission of her sister or her friend into the gaol. The witness had beet) four or live years in the post of Alguazil. He never knew the torture inflicted in the Island until the arrival of the D<i-