I. "The Jury UNANIMOUSLY find it proved that the _excerpt charter is a forged document_; and, BY A MAJORITY,[58] find it NOT PROVEN that the panel forged the said document, or is guilty art or part thereof,--or that he UTTERED it, knowing it to be forged." [Here arose a burst of applause from the audience, in consequence of which the Court immediately ordered the gallery to be cleared.] [58] In Scotland, the verdict in a criminal case is according to a majority of the jury; in a civil case they must be unanimous. II. "UNANIMOUSLY find it proved that the _documents on the map are forged_; and by A MAJORITY find it NOT PROVEN that the panel forged the said documents, or is guilty art and part thereof, or that he UTTERED them, knowing them to be forged." III. "UNANIMOUSLY find it _Not Proven_ that the documents contained in De Porquet's packet are forged; or were uttered by the panel as genuine, knowing them to be forged." IV. "UNANIMOUSLY find it _Not Proven_ that the copy letter to Le Normand,[59] in the fifth and last charge of the Indictment, is either forged, or was uttered by the panel as genuine, knowing it to be forged." [59] This was the anonymous letter to Madlle. le Normand, dated the 10th July 1837, accompanying the map professed to have been left with her so mysteriously on the ensuing day. See it _in extenso_ in our last Number, p. 482. As soon as the chancellor of the jury had finished delivering the above verdict the prisoner swooned, and was carried out of court insensible. On one of his counsel certifying to the court, on the authority of a medical gentleman in attendance on him, the continued indisposition of the prisoner, and that it would be dangerous to bring him back into court, his further attendance was dispensed with, the Public Prosecutor consenting; and as soon as the verdict had been formally approved of and recorded, the Court pronounced the following sentence:-- "The Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, in respect of the foregoing verdict of Assize, assoilzie the panel _simpliciter_, and dismiss him from the bar." By the law of Scotland a verdict of "_Not Proven_" has the same effect as a verdict of "_Not Guilty_," with reference to liability to a second or subsequent trial on the same charge.