DON PEDRO GIBERT, Captain; Bernardo de Soto, Mate; For Robbery and Piracy, committed on board The Black King, at Cape Lopez, who protected the Crew of the Panda. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, 82, STATE STREET. 1834. A Pirate's Long Knife. 1 His Excellency Don Antonio G. Vega, Spanish Consul. William H. Payton, Esq., Joseph Tavers, Esq., Interpreters of the Jonas L. Sibley, Esq. Marshal. Horatio Bass, Esq., Deputy Marshal. Boston, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 1834, at 9 o'clock A. M., the prisoners, consisting of Don Pedro Gibert, and his mate Bernardo De Soto, with ten of his crew chained together in pairs, were placed at the bar. The Clerk then read the indictment in English, and Mr. Badlam read it to the prisoners in Spanish. Indictment. "At a Circuit Court of the United States of America for the first Circuit, begun and holden at Boston, within and for the District of Massachusetts, on the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, the jurors for the said United States, within and for the said District of Massachusetts, upon their oath present that Pedro Gibert, late of Boston, in said District, Master mariner, Bernardo de Soto, Francisco Ruiz, Nicola Costa, Antonio Ferrer, Manuel Boyga, Domingo de Guzman, Juan Antonio Portana, Manuel Castillo, Angel Garcia, Jose Velazquez, late of Boston in said District, mariners, and Juan Montenegro, late of Boston in said District, mariner, other : wise called Jose Basilio de Castro, late of Boston in said District, mariner, on the twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, upon the high sea within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, with force and arms did feloniously and piratically set upon, board, break and enter a certain merchant brig of the United States, called the Mexican, then and there belonging and appertaining to Joseph Peabody, then being a citizen of the United States, and then and there piratically and feloniously did assault John Groves Butman, then and there being in and on board said brig, and then and there being the Master of said brig, and then and there being a citizen of the United States, and then and there being in the peace of God and the said United States, and did then and there in and on board said brig upon the high sea, within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, put the said John Groves Butman in great bodily fear and danger of his life; and ten boxes, each containing two thousand dollars of the value of two thousand dollars, and all of the value of twenty thousand dollars; of the goods, chattels, monies, and property of the said Joseph Peabody, then and there being in and laden on board the said brig upon the high sea within the Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, and then and there being under the care, custody and in the possession of the said John Groves Butman, with force and arms from the care, custody and possession of the said John Groves Butman, they the said Pedro Gibert, Bernardo de Soto, Francisco Ruiz, Nicola Costa, Antonio Ferrer, Manuel Boyga, Domingo de Guzman, Juan Antonio Portana, Manuel Castillo, Angel Garcia, Jose Velazquez, Juan Montenegro, otherwise called Jose Basilio de Castro, then and there in the said brig upon the high sea within the Admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, piratically, feloniously, violently and against the will of the said John Groves Butman, did steal, rob, take and carry away in the |