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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~To wit.~--The jurors for Our Lady the Queen, upon their oath present
that PEDRO DE ZULUETA the younger, late of the parish of Saint
Mary-le-Bow, in the City of London, merchant and commission agent;
THOMAS JENNINGS, late of the same place, mariner; and THOMAS BERNARDOS,
late of the same place, mariner, heretofore and after the 1st day of
January, in the year of the reign of our Lord 1825, to wit, on the 1st
day of November, in the 4th year of the reign of Our Sovereign Lady
Queen Victoria, with force and arms, to wit, at London aforesaid, and
within the jurisdiction of the said Court, did illegally and feloniously
_man, navigate, equip, dispatch, use, and employ a certain ship or
vessel_, to wit, a ship or vessel called the “Augusta,” in order to
accomplish a certain object, which in and by a certain Act of
Parliament, made and passed in the 5th year of the reign of his late
Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act to amend and
consolidate the laws relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” was
and is declared unlawful, that is to say, _to deal and trade in slaves_,
contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and
against the peace of Our Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity;
2. And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further
present that the said Pedro de Zulueta the younger, Thomas Jennings,
and Thomas Bernardos, after the 1st day of January, in the year of our
Lord 1825, to wit, on the 1st day of November, in the 4th year of the
reign of Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, with force and arms, to wit,
at London aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of the said Court, did
illegally and feloniously, and against the form of the statute in such
case made and provided, _fit out, man, navigate, equip, dispatch, use,
and employ a certain ship or vessel_, called the “Augusta,” in order to
accomplish a certain object, which in and by a certain Act of Parliament
made and passed in the 5th year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George the Fourth, intituled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws
relating to the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” was and is declared
unlawful, that is to say, _to purchase slaves_, contrary to the form of
the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of Our
Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity;
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