FOUND GUILTY. Taken in Short-Hand during the Proceedings on LONDON: Printed by Dewick & Clarke, Aldersgate-street, FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS'-COURT, PATERNOSTER-ROW; THE TRIAL OF BRIG. GEN. T. PICTON. AFTER the counts of the indictment were ge nerally stated by MR. HARRISON, MR. GARROW opened the case on the part of the prosecution in the following terms. "The task of stating the particulars in this transaction, so extraordinary in its nature, and so singular in the circumstances with which it was attended, had been committed to much abler hands than those to which it has unfortunately devolved. But it is happy for me that, difficult as the duty may appear to my inferior abilities, the very peculiarity of the transaction, surrounded as it is by all its horrid accompaniments, renders eloquence wholly unnecessary, when the facts are submitted to the consideration of a British jury. Unless, gentlemen, the facts clearly and fully substantiated before you force from you a reluctant verdict of guilty, I have no difficulty in saying that the defendant ought not to be convicted: I call it a reluctant verdict, because there is no individual present, B |