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‘Begerrat, Francisco de Castro, and 
Rafael, an alguazil (constable) were 
present. 
With which arm were youied up 
the second day?—With each, one 
after the. other, and JI was so sus- 
pended, that I could just touch the 
spike by extending my toe.—(My 
feet were without shoes or stock- 
ings, she said; im reply to a 
question by Lord Ellenborough). 
She then described, that she was 
seized with a fainting fit, and 
that she knew nothing of the time 
or circumstances of her recove- 
ry. 
Were you again put in irons ?— 
Yes, in the gréllos, the same even- 
ing. 
How long were you in this state ? 
—All the time | was in prison, dur- 
ing eight months. 
Are there any marks of the inju- 
ry you received now apparent on 
your person ‘—On my wrists there 
are, but none on my feet. 
[The witness now exposed the 
seam or callus, formed on 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 relcased before she was 
brought over; that she came with 
colonel Fullarton, and that she had 
been maintained by Mr. White, of 
the treasury. 
Don Rafael Shando, also assisted 
by the interpreter, said, that he was 
an alguazil in the island of Trinidad, 
in the year 1801; that he returned 
from the interior of the country on 
the 22d 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 ona table; it was about se- 
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ven o’clock in the evening. Beggor. 
rat desired witness to bring Carlos 
up, and told her that she must re- 
peat to Carlos what she had said to 
him. After th‘s interview, at which 
nothing transpired, she was instantly 
putin the gri/los, and in the same 
room in which she had suffered the 
torture. The apartment was like a 
garret, with sloping sides, and the 
grillos were so placed, that, by the 
lowness of the room, she could by 
no means raise herself up during 
the eight months of herconfinement. 
On the 23d of December she was 
again put to the torture, between 
eleven and twelve in the morning, 
and she remained in this situation 
twenty-two minutes by the watch. 
[The witness here examined the 
drawing, and described the position 
much in the way it had been before 
represented, and then added, | 
She fainted twice in his arms.— 
Beggorrat sent vinegar to the execue 
tioner, to administer to her 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 down, she 
was put into the grillos. The wit- 
ness had seen her sister bring her 
victuals, but never noticed the ad- 
mission of her sister or her frierid 
into the gaol. The witness had been 
four or five years in the post of al- 
guazils He never knew the torture 
inflicted in the island until the arrival 
of the defendant. There had been 
bef6re no instrument for the pur- 
pose. The first he saw was in the 
barracks, among the soldiers. Be- 
fore Louisa Calderon, the instru- 
ment had been introduced into the 
gaol perhaps about six months. The 
first person he saw tortured in Tri- 
nidad 
