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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. — John Shaqi

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Zulueta, Pedro de

Zulueta, Pedro de

Slave trade -- Africa; Slave traders -- Africa; Trial transcripts -- England -- London; Zulueta, Pedro de -- Trials, litigation, etc.

The Report of Dr. Madden forms part of the Appendix to the “Report from
the Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa[3],” and although the
first official communication which was received by the house of Messrs.
Zulueta & Co., it is not inserted, in consequence of its want of
connexion with the chief subject of this publication. It is entitled,
“Report of Her Majesty’s Commissioner of Inquiry on the State of the
British Settlements on the Gold Coast, at Sierra Leone, and the Gambia,
with some Observations on the Foreign Slave Trading Factories along the
Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1841;” and sets forth its object as
follows:--

  “Pursuant to the instructions of Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for
  the Colonies, the following matters were duly examined into, and the
  result of the best consideration that could be given to these subjects
  will be found in the following order:--

  “1st. The state and condition of our forts and settlements on the
  Western Coast of Africa, their trade, population, resources, and
  government.

  “2d. The facilities afforded in these settlements to the foreign slave
  traders resorting to them, by affording supplies in goods or stores
  that are essential to the trade.

  “3d. The prospects and practicability of emigration from Sierra Leone
  to our West India Colonies.

  “4th. The climate, salubrity, and nature of the locality of our
  settlements on the Western Coast of Africa: and in addition to these
  subjects, I have to add the consideration of two very important ones,
  not specified in my instructions, but which, in their execution,
  became part and parcel of them, and which I conceived I would not have
  done my duty had I left unnoticed, or taken no steps to remove the
  evils connected with them; these subjects are:--

  “1. The existence of slavery in our settlements on the Gold Coast.

  “2. The co-operation of British commerce with slave-trade interests,
  at the factories of notorious slave dealers on the Western Coast of
  Africa.”

  [3] Vide Part II, p. 9, et seq.

In treating of the last subject here mentioned, the following remarks
occur:--

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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.

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