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PEDRO GIBERT AND OTHERS. 701

ing off the coast of Afriea for slavers, had fallen in with, and eap-
tared, the Spanish schooner Panda, and that several of the crew
of that vessel had been identified as the persons who robbed the
brig Mexican, of Salem, on the 20th of September, 1832, while on
her voyage from that port to Rio Janeiro. A part of the crew had
been secured and taken to England, the remainder having escaped
to tha shore, where they were protected by the natives,

On the 26th of August, the British gun-brig Savage arrived in
the harbor of Salem, having on board the following prisoners: Pedro
Gibert, master mariner; Bernardo de Soto, Francisco Ruiz,
Nicola Costa, Antonio Ferrer, Manuel Boyga, Domingo de Guzman,
Jnan Antonio Portana, Manuel Castillo, Angel Garcia, Jose Valaz-
ques, and Juan Montenegro, otherwise called Joss Basilio de Castro,
and Juan Delgardo. Delgardo committed suicide in Salem jail.
Her commander, Lieutenant Loney, waited upon the authorities of

an Indictment Charging Them with the Commission of an Act of
Piracy, on Board the Brig Mozican, of Salem; containing a fall
statement of the Testimony, and the Arguments of the Counsel on
Both Sides, the Charge of the Court, Pronounced by the Hon. Judgs
Story, and the Verdict of the Jury, with an Appendix eontaining
several Documents never before published. By a Congressional
Stenographer. Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf. Providence:
Marshall Brown & Co. Portland: Colman & Chisholm. Salem:
John M, Ives, 1834.”

“4 Poll and Accurate Acconnt—20 engravings. Trial of the
Twelve Spanish Pirates of the Schooner Panda, a Guinea Slaver
for Robbery and Piraey Committed on Board the Brig Mexican,
20th Sept, 1832, Boston: Published by Lemuel Gulliver, 82 State
street, 1834.”

On the title page is an engraving of the black King at Cape
Lopez, who protected the crew of the Panda and A Pirate's Long
Knife. The other illustrations are The Panda standing through
the Bahama Channel; The Mate Begging His Life; Antonio Ferrer,
the Tattooed Cook; The Panda at Anchor on the River Nazareth;
Burying the Money on the Beach at Cape Lopez; The Pirates Con-
eealed in the Woods Behind Cape Lopez; One of the Boxes of
Dollars; Explosion of the Panda; A Kind of Knife Used by Slav-
ers; Inhabitants of the slend of Fernando Po; Bernardo De Soto;
Don Pedro Gibert; Ruiz leaving the Panda after Applying the
Slow Match; Natives Carrying two of the Pirates up the River
Nazareth; The Pirates Carrying Rum on Shore to Purchase Slaves;
Antonio on the Top-gallant Mast; The Carpenter Applying the
Match to the Bag of Powder in the Magazine; Blunt Chart of the
Coast of Africa Showing the Haunts of the Pirates.

“Half a Century with Judges and Lawyers. By Joseph A. Wile
lard. Boston and New York: Houghton-Miffin & Company. The
Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1896.”

2See 1 Am. St. Tr. 44.

*See 1 Am, St. Tr, 44,

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