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

When a vessel is seized which is English, it goes without any delay before an English tribunal?—Yes.

When it is a foreign vessel, does not it go before a Mixed Commission?—It depends upon the nature of the treaty; under some of the treaties it would go to the tribunal before a Mixed Commission.

A French vessel would go before a French tribunal?—Yes.

A Spanish before a mixed tribunal?—Yes.

And a Portuguese?—Yes.

When was it you first sailed for the coast of Africa?—I left England in February, 1840.

Did you before that know the Gallinas?—Yes, I knew it in 1835.

You had been there in 1835?—Yes.

You went there first in 1835, in the discharge of your professional duties? Before that time were you aware there was such a place?—No, I knew nothing about the coast of Africa.

You did not know that the Gallinas was a place where slaves were more or less dealt in than any other place?—I had no reason to know any thing about it till I went there.