Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a Charge of Slave Trading, under 5 Geo. IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London / A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq.

by Pedro de Zulueta; William Brodie Gurney

The HONOURABLE Mr. JUSTICE MAULE,
The HONOURABLE Mr. JUSTICE WIGHTMAN,

AND

Mr. COMMISSIONER BULLOCK.

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Copy from Mr. Gurney’s Short-hand Notes of the Proceedings on the Trial of this Indictment.

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The Queen, v. Pedro de Zulueta.

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Indictment for Felony.

Mr. Kelly. My Lord, with respect to Mr. Zulueta, it is very important that I should be able to communicate with him from time to time as the trial proceeds. May I ask of your Lordship some indulgence to permit him to sit near his counsel?

Mr. Justice Maule. What is the charge?

Mr. Kelly. The charge under prosecution is felony; the felony being, the fitting out a ship with certain objects declared by statute to be illegal, namely, those of slave trading.