Are you a merchant of this City?--Yes.
Extensively engaged in business?--Yes.
Do you know the gentleman who stands behind you, Mr. Pedro de
Zulueta?--Yes.
How long have you been acquainted with his firm?--With his firm I have
been acquainted about thirty-two years--the firm in Spain.
How long have you known the gentleman who stands at the bar?--I should
think about twelve years.
What character has the house, and himself a member of it, borne for the
honourable nature of their transactions, their integrity, and their
compliance with the laws of this country?--I always heard that they were
men of the most correct principle in all dealings; his father and
grandfather always bore the best character.
Mr. Justice _Maule_. I understand the gentleman to give him a very high
character; I cannot hear the expressions.
Mr. _Clarkson_. Is there a house, in your judgment, in the City of
London, which bears a higher character for principle and honour than the
house of Zulueta?--It stands second to none.
_Thomas Hallifax_, Esq. sworn. Examined by Mr. _Clarkson_.
Are you a banker of the firm of Glyn, Mills, & Co.?--I am.
How long have you known the gentleman who stands before you?--The firm
have been known to our house, I believe, eighteen or nineteen years; I
cannot say the precise time I became acquainted with Mr. Zulueta, but I
should say from ten to fifteen years.
Have you had an opportunity of knowing during that time the reputation
he bore in the City of London for the honour and integrity of his
dealings and conduct?--I believe him to bear the highest possible
character; I believe him to be a man of the highest honour, and the most
amiable disposition. I have known him as connected with his eminent firm
in the City, and also in private, and I have great pleasure in giving to
the best of my knowledge the high character he has borne from his
amiability and irreproachable conduct.
_Samson Ricardo_, Esq., sworn. Examined by Mr. _Clarkson_.
Are you a merchant of the City of London?--I am a member of the Stock
Exchange.
Are you acquainted with Mr. Pedro de Zulueta?--Very well.
You know the house and the whole of the members?--Yes, perfectly.
Have you had transactions with them?--Yes.
What has been the character and reputation of the gentleman in the dock
for honour and integrity in his personal conduct and his mercantile
dealings?--The highest possible, and most straightforward: he is quite
incapable of engaging in any transactions of a questionable nature.
The Honourable Baron _Lionel de Rothschild_, sworn. Examined by Mr.
_Clarkson_.
Are you acquainted with the gentleman who stands in the dock?--Yes.
How long have you known him?--I have known him the best part of twenty
years.
What character has he borne for honour and humanity as a man of
business?--Most highly honourable as respects personal character, and as
respects his firm the best and most straightforward.
Is he a man of humane disposition?--I should think perfectly so,
incapable of being connected in any way with the offence charged.
_Manuel Gregorio de Isasi_, sworn. Examined by Mr. _Clarkson_.
Are you a merchant of this City?--Yes.
Where do you carry on your business?--In Water Lane.
Are you concerned in shipping at all?--No.
What is the business in which you are engaged?--A wine-merchant.
Are you acquainted with Mr. Pedro de Zulueta?--From his childhood.
Did you go to school with him?--Yes.
You knew him before he came to this country?--Yes, quite well, at Cadiz.
You are yourself from Cadiz?--Yes.
Have you had an opportunity of forming an opinion of the character he
bears and deserves for integrity and honour, and his feelings of
humanity in his personal character?--The highest, and his family at
Cadiz. I should say that in every relation of life it is so.
_José Maria Barrero_, sworn. Examined by Mr. _Clarkson_.
You are at the head of the consulate of this country from Spain?--I am.
Are you acquainted with Mr. Pedro de Zulueta?--Yes.
Have you known him long and well?--About twenty years.
That is very much the greater part of his life I suppose?--Yes.
What has been his conduct and character in the City of London?--The
highest possible.
Are you acquainted with him in his relations in private life, as well as
his conduct as a merchant?--Yes.
Have you had an opportunity of knowing whether his character and conduct
in private life have been altogether unexceptionable?--Yes.
_Charles Tottie_, Esq., sworn. Examined by Mr. _Clarkson_.
Are you a merchant in this country?--Yes.
Are you also at the head of the consulate of Spain?--I am consul for
Sweden and Norway.
Do you know Mr. Zulueta and his firm?--Yes.
What have you to say to his Lordship and the Jury respecting his
character for integrity and humanity?--I have known Mr. Pedro de Zulueta
for upwards of fourteen or sixteen years, and I always considered him of
the highest character, and a truly Christian man. His cousins and my
sons went to school together.
What has been his character for humanity and veracity?--Oh, very high.
Dr. _Neil Arnott_, sworn. Examined by Mr. _Clarkson_.
Your name is Neil Arnot?--Yes.
You are a physician?--Yes.
Do you know the gentleman who stands by your side?--I have known him
from his youth as physician to the family.
Have you had an opportunity of forming a judgment with relation to the
character he has borne for honour and integrity as an individual and as
a merchant?--From the many opportunities I have had of conversing with
him, and knowing him in the character of a physician to his family, I
have had an opportunity; also, as physician to most of the Spanish
ambassadors; and I have known him as a countryman of theirs.
What character has he borne?--His father spared nothing on his
education; it was the best this country could afford.
Is he a man of veracity and humanity?--In all the relations of life,
kindred, friendship, and acquaintance, I consider him as standing very
high.
Has he always borne the character of a humane, upright, Christian
man?--As much as possible.
_Charles Dodd_, Esq., sworn.