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

Mr. Kelly. I have no question to ask you.

Mr. John Brown called again. Examined by Mr. Payne.

Will you produce enclosure No. 18? (The same was produced).

(To Captain Hill). Will you look at that, and state whose handwriting you believe it to be?—I believe this handwriting to be Bernardos’s, but I did not see him write it; I have some writing I saw him write in my possession.

From the knowledge you have acquired, seeing him write, do you believe it to be his writing?—Yes.

Have you had that paper in your possession before?—This is one of the papers I found on board the vessel when I seized her.

Mr. James Brodie sworn. Examined by Mr. Serjeant Bompas.

I believe you come from the Post Office?—Yes.

You have been accustomed to see the post-mark on letters?—I have.

Have the goodness to look at that, and tell me whether that is the post-mark, and the date of it?—It is.