The Sun.
London, England, 1812-10-21 00:00:00

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14gw (it:Lem:s) file 22d ,Tuly,
tir. Pierre Ponce, of the countr
Opelottsas„(Mr. And',l44'eidest son being air-:
sent from home,) wt-ereldurdeitd by, a. young.negro
man, a slave on the pi4utation. The children had,
Mitt thiwn to take all afterno-on's naP ; Aldan
Done& was otoipied in spinning, and ha&fl-0-u?
the window obs.erved the nevoshaTpening
axe on the grindstone; and ml:uiring what; lie. "11'a4
. about, received- for ansviter; in- a very impudent'
tone, that Le was preparing' to qain- away. - The
felldw entered same• short time after, with
weapon, and advanced upon his mistress with
such rapidity, that notwithstanding her alarm, he
instantly cleaved open her skttil-,- emi then repeai.;
ed his blows across her f.;cc and -in other three:::
tions, without her doing any more than to: scream
so as to awaken her el;lest daughter layingFasleep
on the table in the same.room. The •daughtet
flew, as by instinct, to the sit oilier mother, but
only came in time to.receive the same fate. The-
noise by this time produced;brought out of an-;
.otherroom a young son., who seeing the destruction:,
deali-ng around, at once attempted his escape, but
was pursued by the negro to au adjacent fence;:
and there put to death. The negro then returnei
to the house and :mink :red the little children in
their sleep, and collected all the victims mro one
pile. 1k afterwards set out to catch the best
horse on the plantation, apparently for the pur-
pose of flight. The horse being sornewhA
tractable, carried him to the fence of,.a neighbour;
and some one o'...;serving the fellow, asked:what;
he was doing with the horse, he replied, that some.
Spanh'irds had come and murdered his mistress,
&e. The inquirer and his companions immediate-
ly proposed to go to the house, and one of theta
being more suspicious than die rest, thought pro.,
per to seize the negro, wh6, after being detected
in several falsehoods, and finding particularly that
:no tracks after a recent shower of rain could be
shown of the Spaniards, confessed his crime. He
said that his father was a warrior, and that he
had inherited the family courage—that what he
had killed before he would not think
,of counting,
but it they would only let hint loose he would let
them see how many he could kill.
• The same hardihood attended him through his
trial—and on
,:being sentenced to the gallows in
two hours, he appeared anxious to reach the spoti
and wheu there, would not wait for the cart to be
drove from under him, but told the bystanders
to get out of his way and let him jump-77whielt
he did! •

Last Thursday night a valuable ram was killed
in a field belonging to i Ir. Eltuan, of Glymier
near Lewes, by some villains, wno conveyed away
the carcase, and left the skin behisid them. The:
rwal was the property of Sir J. Sebright, of whom.
Mr. El!man bad hired th^ aninial for the season,
at 100 guineas. Suspicith attached to two men,„
named William Madgwick and William Davies,
whose footsteps were traced ;to the very threshold.
of the house which they occupied ; wheieups,n •it
it was searched, and three sacks much stained %vial
fresh 'and- stale blood being found therein, they
were taken up. on Friday, and examined before a
gistraie, who committed them for further exaaii-
natio.