The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-07-12 00:00:00

ADMIRAL7r SESSIONS.

Yesterday, the Sesciqns commenced in the Old
114ney, before Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, Mr. Justice
Le fitsoic. and a Ilbnch of CI•ILIANS. for the
trial of ra.nees committed on the high seas, within
the jut rf the Adm;ralty of England.

It.)RRII) mu I mot.
Chinese. was indifted fir feloniously,
wilfully, and with malice aforethought, making an
assault upon another C:iinese, called Anguia, and
stabbing him with A k'ile ill divers part( rf the head
and hods% rf which woan Is the said Angnia died.
The foil wing is a brief natement of thl horrible
fan., which came oat bef,re the Jury:-The Pii-
sonrr was a mariner on board the 7everr: East-
Indiaman, homeward hound, and had been shined
on hoard at 8er,731, as had the deceased,
Anguin, who acted as cook to the ship's crew. At
twelve o'clock, on the night of the P4.h of May,
the vessel being oil the Leeway(' I.iands, Mr.
Oliver, Second Mate, took the watch ; and, abou'
two o'clock, the Prisoner having been nais-ing off

the deck abnut five mintres, acry was haard:tor-

ward, to which part of the vessel the mate repaired.
It was an erremely dark night, and Mr. Oliver
traced the cry to the fore hatchway, where he
found the Prisoner in the custody of pro Quart-r-
Masters of the vessel. He heard one of them ob.

reeve, that murder haJ been committed b.fo•e ne
reached the hatchway; and he soon alter perceived
Anguin near to his hammock, lying dead, with his
h:ad nearly off, and h i 119.iy dreadfully disiivired,
with cuts apparently infiiaed with a shap instru•
ment. The Prisoner had a knife in his hand, which
was very bloody, and, on being secured, he es•
claimed, " Me kill Anguin, Anguin tell me lie—
China fashion—•to-monuw, hang me." The 1911-
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toner was conveyed to the deck, and lashed down
to a ring-bolt, until day-light.
It appeared, by the testimony adduced, that the
unfortunate Anguin retired to bed when he had
done his duty in the galley, as he had not marine's
duty to do. He was first attacked in his hammock,
which he got out of, and was killed al:nost in-
stantly ; and, one of the Chinese who slept near
to him, wit awakened by the scuffle, and was
wounded before he could afford him any assistance.
I'ne Prisoner, wilt+ appeared insensible the greater
part of the trial, on being called for, his defence,
said, through his Interpreter, that he submitted
himself to be dealt with according to the English
laws.
Mr. Justice Ls BL AIM observed, that the only
iitErulty he had to encounter, was to direa the
Jury to form a doubt in this case, of the guilt of time
Prisoner, or how to lessen the crime from that of
I murder.

The Jury, without hesitation, Cooed the Pri-
soner—Gm/top.
Sir W. SCOTT pronounced sentence of death on
the prisoner, in the most awful manner. The law
.f this country required, for the safety of mackind,
that the prisoner should be no longer in this world.
He had h-en foiled guilty of a most inhuman mur-
der, on one of his own countrymen, and -in the
dead of the MO.. too, when the deceased WAS un-
prepared to resist the bloody aa.
The poisoner was ordered to be executed on
Monday next, at the Execution Dock, and is to
be afterward. delivered to the Surgeons for dis-
seaion.—ln case of a respite, the execution will
take place on the subsequent It iday.
Richard Ktriirig, Mr Mar, .12bit Seandert, rar.
Rad, and J,llm Faulwaod, were indiled for steal-
ing, on the high seas, sixty-five fathoms of cable,
value Sal. ; and an anchor' value 101. the property
of J. Whales and Gambol Jones.
The Prisoners are all pilots, who resided on the
coast of Kent, and three of them went on board
the Trawler brig, Capt. &Hard, to cools:a the
vessel, which had injured an anchor, into RAMS.
gate, fruit the Downs ; while on board, a plan was
entered into by the Prisoners and the Captain, to
cut away the cable, and that a rope should be fast-
ened to it, by which it could be recovered by two
men, who wete in a boat. This was done, and the
Captain, according to his own statement, committed
the fraud. in cottjunaion with the Prisoner., to
make the loss more severe on the Underwriters, and,
cons-quertey, more profitable to the owners. who,
very laudably, instituted this prosecution. The trial
excited a good deal of interest, but our limits will
only allow us to give this abstraa.
Three of the Prisoners were found Goi/ty ; and
the other two. Sanders and Read, who were in the
boat. were //crowd, for want of sufficient evidence
to establish the fiats against them.