Book/Printed Material Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the City of London, on the 27th, 28th, and 30th of October, 1843, on a charge of slave-trading
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Image 1 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … TRIAL OF PEDRO DE ZULUETA, JUN., IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OF THE CITY OF LONDON, On the 27th, 28th, and 30th of October, 1843, ON A CHARGE OF SLAVE-TRADING. REPORTED BY…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
- Date: 1844
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Image 2 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … [???] The Purchaser is requested to distinguish this Edition of Zulueta's Trial from an imperfect and partially incorrect impression, of which a few copies inadvertently got into circulation. January 24 th, 1843.…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
- Date: 1844
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Image 3 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. In punishing the following trial, the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society are actuated by no personal motive. They are influenced solely by a sense of the importance…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 4 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … iv any criminal proceedings in their absence, for the participation of Messrs. Zulueta and Co. could not be proved without the production of those letters. When the appeal was heard before the…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 5 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … v Crown might be retained at the expense of the Government. He received the laconic reply that no instructions had been given. A similar communication was also made to the Secretary of…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 6 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … vi and a letter directing him to state what Further sum would be necessary to enable him to sail for Liverpool without loss of time. At this period, also, he received a…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 7 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … vii he received on board a number of letters, which were addressed to the consignees of his cargo, and which contain slave-trading instructions for the guidance of the Augusta, and of several…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 8 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … viii Jennings was not taken for several weeks, although a reward was privately offered for his discovery. Bernardos is in Cuba. Partly in consequence of his late apprehension, and partly on the…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 9 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … TRIAL. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, October 27, 1843. Before Mr. Justice MAULE, and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN. It having been known that the trial of Mr. Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a charge of…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 10 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 2 the fourth year of the reign of her present Majesty, did feloniously equip, man, and navigate a certain vessel called the Augusta, for the purpose of dealing and trading in slaves.…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 11 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 3 feloniously equipped and manned a vessel called the Augusta for the purpose of dealing in slaves. It was now happily a matter of history, that there had been a great contest…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 12 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 4 vessel to be openly engaged in an English port for the purpose of slave-trading, without being detected; but he had no doubt he should be able distinctly to satisfy their (the…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 13 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 5 the case. The letter, he had said, was from Bernardos to Jennings, and he should be able to show that the prisoner had been in communication with them respecting the voyage…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 14 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 6 a merchant at Cadiz, but who was notorious as a dealer in slaves, and was so, as he was instructed, to the knowledge of the prisoner; he having admitted such to…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 15 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 7 received the amount of the loss from the insurance office in London. About the 7th January the vessel sailed from Cadiz, and on her arrival on the coast of Africa she…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 16 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 8 of June, and the 15th of June; and Captain Hill's evidence of the 29th of June, the 4th of July, and the 6th of July. I will beg first of all…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 17 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 9 The jury would probably have in evidence who Pedro Blanco was. No doubt he was a considerable slave-trader. “You would have funds in your hands arising from some commercial transactions between…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 18 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 10 “Mr. Forster: You acted in this transaction merely as agent in the usual manner, as you would have acted for any house in any part of the world?—Exactly, If Martinez had…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 19 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 11 and lend themselves to the transaction, and send goods from England for the purposes of barter, the trade could not be carried on. “But is it lawful to employ the British…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 20 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 12 “Before the Privy Council?—Yes. “That appeal is not yet decided?—I believe not. “Sir T. D. Acland: You stated that your transactions with Africa for Martinez have amounted to about 20,000 l.…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 21 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 13 been more recently sent direct from this country to the coast of Africa?—No, I do not think that is the case. I should think the contrary is more likely to be…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 22 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 14 about it. My father knew there was such a man upon the coast, but I did not know even that, though I have managed all this business. Our house never had…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 23 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 15 “It is further stated, ‘It appears that it is a regular thing sending vessels to him, that is, to Mr. Zulueta; if they come to England to him he sends them…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 24 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 16 that it was legal for you to buy them?—I never had any doubt of the legality of buying them, or of selling them again afterwards. “ Mr. Wood: But the questions…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 25 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 17 England, and they cannot by the laws of England plead ignorance of those laws.’ Now I and my partners are British subjects, and therefore we are bound by the law, and…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 26 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 18 would have debited it to us, and not credited it. But altogether there is some confusion about it, I suppose arising from the mistranslation of the documents; because the fact is…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 27 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 19 to your house? With reference to the destination of the Augusta, from Liverpool to Gallinas, and the fact of its having put into Cadiz unforeseen and unpremeditated altogether, in consequence of…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 28 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 20 with him; in fact, she was sold for very little. The object of that vessel was just the same as the Augusta, to maintain a legal trade with Gallinas; that is…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 29 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 21 it was our express wish and order that every thing in her that was fit for the trade should be taken down, and the vessel put in the same condition as…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 30 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 22 station. If the prisoner knew it, that would be an offence within the Act of Parliament. How were the jury to ascertain whether he knew it or not? The goods sent…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 31 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 23 seven. The first time I was on shore there, and saw the barracoons, was in November, 1840; I was cruising off there two years for the prevention of the slave-trade, but…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 32 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 24 her in April, 1839. She was sailing under Russian colours. A man named Thomas Bernardos was commander of the vessel at that time; the crew were chiefly Spaniards, there might have…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 33 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 25 least twelve miles. I cannot say whether the river is navigable farther up than I went; I should think not from the appearance of it, except for canoes. I cannot say…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 34 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 26 goods were landed there. I can only guess at the population of the villages. I should say that at Tiendo there might perhaps have been 800 or 900; at Tardia 200;…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 35 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 27 from Cape Palmas up to Cape de Verde Islands; and then there was another senior officer, Captain Denman, appointed. The extent of coast over which my duty extended varied according to…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 36 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 28 might take care to procure them by other vessels, and might have them perfectly ready. Slave equipments are very soon put on board, in an hour or two; it would take…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 37 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 29 “London, 20th August, 1840. “ Sir, —In reply to your favour of yesterday, we have to say that we cannot exceed £500 for the vessel in question, such as described in…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 38 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 30 soever, during the said voyage, always excepted). The freight to be paid on unloading and right delivery of the cargo, at the rate of 100 l. sterling per calendar month that…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 39 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 31 Another letter was then called for, upon which Mr. Kelly again said, he should once more object to any thing being offered in evidence, or any documents put in unless such…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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Image 40 of Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the … 32 name, but there was not any proof whatever that he ever saw or heard of it; it could not be made evidence against him. Mr. Serjeant Bompas said the name of…- Contributor: Zulueta, Pedro De - Johnson, J. F. - Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
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About this Item
Title
- Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun., in the Central Criminal Court of the City of London, on the 27th, 28th, and 30th of October, 1843, on a charge of slave-trading
Names
- Zulueta, Pedro de
- Johnson, J. F., reporter
- Great Britain. Central Criminal Court
Created / Published
- London, Ward, 1844.
Headings
- - Zulueta, Pedro de--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Trial transcripts--England--London
- - Slave trade--Africa, West
Medium
- viii, 95 p. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KD372.Z85 Z85 1844
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 65085883
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- online text
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