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xvi, 191pp, [1]. Contemporary half-sheep, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine worn and scorched at head. Remnants of publisher's powder blue wrappers to gutter of title. The sole edition, provincially published, of the trial proceedings concerned with the governorship of Trinidad. Having been made commandant and military governor of the territory in 1797, British Army officer Sir Thomas Picton (1758-1815) set to remedying the instances of endemic civil disorder that the island was renowned for. His methods were vindictive and vicious and most often resulted in execution. In 1803 William Fullarton (1754-1808), a fellow member of the governing commission, and a man diametrically opposed to Picton, conducted a series of open enquires into allegations levelled at the authoritarian brigadier general. Fullarton brought charges against Picton, who stood trial in London, with the chief indictment being his torture of one Luisa Calderà n. Picton was found guilty, though this conviction was later overturned. The irascible officer later died leading a cavalry charge at the Battle of Waterloo. Remarks recorded in this pamphlet concerning Colonel Fullarton's conduct led to Mrs. Fullarton's successful prosecution for libel on behalf of her late husband. OCLC records copies at just seven locations (BL, Connecticut State, Cornell, Hamilton College, Harvard, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania); COPAC add no further. Size: 8vo.