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Queen Victoria

CHAPTER IX
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Either for this or for some other reason the procedure of the last forty years was abandoned, and Maclean was tried for high treason.

The result was what might have been expected: the jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty, but insane"; and the prisoner was sent to an asylum during Her Majesty's pleasure.

Their verdict, however, produced a remarkable consequence.

Victoria, who doubtless carried in her mind some memory of Albert's disapproval of a similar verdict in the case of Oxford, was very much annoyed.

What did the jury mean, she asked, by saying that Maclean was not guilty?
It was perfectly clear that he was guilty--she had seen him fire off the pistol herself.


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