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.Zulueta, Pedro de
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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.
Zulueta, Pedro de
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We would earnestly recommend to consideration the propriety of
reestablishing the former British Settlement on the Island of Bulama.
Its climate is certainly unhealthy; but we are not aware that it is
more so than that of Sierra Leone or of some other places on the
Coast. It might be principally, if not entirely occupied, by British
subjects of Negro race; and its position, both for checking the Slave
Trade of Bissao and its neighbourhood, and for drawing out the
legitimate resources of several noble rivers, would be invaluable.
We would also suggest the erection of small Blockhouses, whether up
the Gambia itself, or along the Coast, as at Cestos and the Gallinas,
on points where British commerce is superseding the Slave Trade, as
they would protect the lawful trade, and prevent the re-appearance of
the Slave Trade where it has been extinguished, or is dying away.
SIERRA LEONE.
In regard to the machinery by which this Colony is governed, Your
Committee have no specific recommendation to offer.
In the course of their investigations, questions have arisen connected
with its past management and administration, more especially on the
subject of the party spirit of a peculiar nature, which is alleged to
have acted injuriously in regard to it both on the Colonial Office at
home and on the internal transactions of the Colony itself; questions
mixed up with topics of a personal nature, and which, in spite of the
facilities for a full investigation which were offered by the Colonial
Office, Your Committee would have found it impossible, within their
limited time, even if it had been their proper province, to follow
out. On these points, therefore, not having the means either of
forming themselves a satisfactory opinion, or furnishing The House
with the means of forming one, they have thought it due, not less to
the questions themselves than to the individuals concerned, not to
report the Evidence; and they are the more induced to pursue this
course, in that they are thus not prejudging any inquiry into this
subject, if in a future Session it should be the pleasure of The House
to engage in it.
In regard to the future, much will depend on the decision which shall
be come to as to several points which have been under our
consideration; such as the continuance at Sierra Leone of the Courts
for Adjudication of Prizes taken in the Slave Trade, the disposal of
the rescued Slaves, and the question of Emigration from Africa
generally.
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