The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF

THE PIRATES.

CADIZ, SEPT. Majesty's steam vessel
Edo, Lieutenant Bullock, arrived here on the even-

bferopthro-:cOtiSiCln con-
ing of the 19th ult, and on the following morning
the. Admiralty,
andT
Mr.l3tillock, the bearer of despatches of some ice.
portance, came 011 shore and delivered his desipatgttes
fr
sequence, waited in . person upon the Tribunal de
Giterre, and the Comisernado Regin Especial,- then
bfrotititih dated theForeignB h AOu :Ls. et
.
engaged in trying the pirates. •On the following
morning, the 91st, the pack'et,from England arriving, •
111. i. George lkshby, mate; awl afterwards Com-
mander of the Morning; Sta? ; • Mr. Andrew Beyer-
man, steward ; and Seijeatit Charles Henry Wit.
kinson, Royal staff corps, a passenger to the Tri-
initial de Guerre, were sent with the Secretary
to the consul. After the witnesses had been duly
sworn, and their declarations taken, they pro-
ceeded: to the prison, where twenty-six indivi-
duals Were placed in -.6 room, thirteen of whom
were the pirates; the ‘-witnesses identified eight,
six of whodi were on board the Morning Star.
At the examination of theiroxes, bags, clothes, &c.,
brought by the pirates, the witnesses recognized
many articles of wearing apparel, principally shirts,
stockings, and socks, as belonging to the different
passengers of the Morning Star, some to the late
commander, who was murdered, and others to them-
selves; the greater part of the shirts were marked
with ink, some had their names at full length, and
others merely the initials. They also recognized a
large trunk as belonging to poor Captain Gibbs;
the sabre and belt did not belong to Major Logie,

for-it had no arms upon it.; ,and the Oates have all
declared that it was the sword of the original common-
der of their vessel, Pedre Marion de Souza Sarmento;
there was on searching only one watch found in the pri-
son, a very common one, which none of the wit-
nesses recognized ; all the valuable ones, there is no
doubt, Were part of the property smuggled on shore
in the night at Pontevedra,, in Galicia. An inven-
tory was taken ,of them by the Spanish authorities
at the time, and they will be ultimately restored
to their original owners, whenever the pirates are
executed.

On the 22d, at day-light, the steam-boat arrived.
The witnesses proceeded to the Comisernado Regio
Especial. We entered the prison about 10 a.m.,
and after the declaration of the witnesses had again
been taken nearly in the same manner as the previ-
,ous day, by the Tribunal de Guerre, they again iden•
titled the pirates; but it was not considered neces-
sary to re-examine the clothes.
On the morning of the 23d the declarations of
the witnesses were legally ratified, both at the Tri-
bunal de Guerre and at the Comisernado Regio
Especial, and the Echo sailed the same evening
with the witnesses for Gibraltar. The question of
competency between the different tribunals here has
been decided in favour of the Marine, and the
trials of the criminals will commence forthwith.
The witnesses sent out from England, it appears,
have failed in identifying Benito de Soto, for this
pirate, the principal person concerned in all the
horrors committed by these criminals, never left his
own vessel.- Mr. Shea, the professional gentleman
employed in the prosecution of Benito Soto, at Gib-
raltar, arrived here on Friday afternoon by land, to
ascertain from the Spanish authorities whether any
and what evidence may be obtainable to supply the
deficiency in the evidence against Benito Soto,•as
there is one reason to believe that one or more of
the crew of the Defensor do-Pedro were no_t will-
ingly concerned in the atrocious act of piracy com-
mitted while they were on board. Now, supposing
this to be the case, of which, by the bye, there is no
evidence at the present moment, are they not all
equally culpable, for when they were at large for a
week here, not one of them made any communica-
tion to any Spanish authority, and when they were
apprehended, not any of them confessed till after the
letter written in the prison by Manuel Antonio Ro-
drigues, to the owner of the vessel at Rio Janeiro,
disclosing the whole history of the villains, was in-
tercepted by the authorities ? It is just possible that
sonic of the guards who were employed on the beach
for two or three days after the vessel was wrecked
may be able to swear that they have heard Soto de-
clare that he was contra maestre (mate) of the De-
fensor de Pedro, from the day she sailed from Rio
Janeiro to the day she was wrecked near Cadiz.
The Echo, Lieut. Bullock, commander, arrived here
on the 30th of August, at day-light, and towed the
Plover, Lieut. Downey, from Gibraltar to Cadiz
Bay, against a strong westerly breeze, in 18 hours.
SFPT. s.—The new Captain General of- Marine,
Queveslo, the successor to Topese, arrived here four
or five days ago, from Ferrol and Seville; he went
on Monday last to be installed at St. Fernando. I
enclose you a copy of the royal :orders that came
front Madrid respecting the pirates. Malver delivered
up his directions immediately to the new Captain-
General, but the Tribunal 'de Guerre have refused
to deliver up their's till an order arrives from Ma-
drid, through the proper channel, to that effect. The
Captain-General of Marine seems desirous to finish
the business, but I am 'afraid, unless he can obtain
permission from Madrid for those pirates to be tried
by court martial, instead of by the tribunal, it will
still be a tedious business. By letters received from
Corunna, though not official, it is known that Nuno
Pereira is in prison, one of the crew of the Defensor
de Pedro, who deserted previously to the sailing of
the vessel from Corunna, and two other marines are
also in prison there, supposed to be Nicholas Fer-
nandez, and Antonio de Laida, who made their
escape from this (Cadiz) on the• 17th of May.
Should these two last prove to be the men we
imagine, there will be in that case only one of -Me
whole eren' missing, namely, Jose de los- Santos.
There has been the same competition between the
authorities at Corunna as there was here, and it is
therefore rather difficult to get at the truth.
I am happy to be able to inform you that Mr.
Shea wrote yesterday to Gibraltar that the evidence
hich we have been able to obtain will, in his opi-
nion, be sufficient to bring Benito Soto to trial
there, without the necessity of the -evidence of any
of the accomplices ; Mr. Shea, therefore, only waits
the arrival of to-morrow's post from Gibraltar, to
know if there be any fresh instructions for them, and
if not he will start to-morrow evening for Gibral-
tar, and send here for witnesses whenever he may re-
quire their evidence. Soto's uncle, Jose Abaal, the
person who smuggl'tl on shore during the night, at
Pontevedra, the three boxes containing the jewels,
watches, and all other valuables, is also in prison
there.; and Francisco Javeer Bravo, a merchant, and
the Portuguese Vice-Consul at Pontevedra, who
also assisted in smuggling the things on shore, and
went over to Corunna by land to arrange there, is
also in prison at St. Jago, a small village in Galicia,
having escaped from Pontevedra. This is the 'run,
vidual who gave a letter of introduction to Soto
for a respectable merchant at Gibraltar, Mr. Natali
Lepri.

HENRY BROUGHAM, Esq., accompanied by
his brother, .1 A NIES Bnour is ‘Nr Esq., paid a visit to they
Right Hon. the Earl of TiIAN-IFT, at Appleby Castle, on I
Tuesday last, and returned to Brougham Hill on Wednesday`'
DISORGANIZED STATE OF THE COUNTY
or FEirmaNAc.n.—llow people can live in Fermanagh, or
a made
how long Fermanagh is to remain without lwing dyed id
intoki ilenn% more blood, we really cannot undertake to say. ~ The spirit
of faction," says an Orange paper published at Bettis,
and sure enough the case is
aetteemoupnttyt
ilsiee
so. The Yeomanry of this comparatively small county
consists of 2000 individuals. They are armed at the ex-
tth,eppsipnigritinsooflenfacceiti7 rears its hydra bead daily
pence of the country, and we scarcely receive a letter 0,
a paper from the North that does not, contain some manifes_
1 tation of this cruel and ferocious spirit. One instance we
peopl Were
fired fired at and wounded by the Yeomanry arms. -Tel -
ie in-
nts--snme of them at least.,,were identified, •
surge
tions were sworn, but such were the Magistr intllnil-
aahsa:a.essianlraetaedya reicoagri.il
4c.Y such the
police, such the Yeomanry of this unhappy'
tertte ofA An
lie was only enabled to apprehend a single district, that
so ? 'Because the delinquents are Orangemen.
individual. Why
Government is to do with such a countyllre•luerl• What
cult to suggest.—Dublin Evening p it is really ditn-
, Poet of Saturday.

A letter was published same time ago by Lord
14
Kvffon, an Orange-ascendancy Lord,--at least
know nothing else about him,—and his let-

er was a furious ascendancy letter. We thought

it not worth the notice; of any reasoning people,
and therefore we did not advert to it. But the

Orange fever is upon the whole faction, and
another high priest of the ascendancy exhibits
grave symptoms of that troublesome and dan-
gerous disease,--whether for good_or evil may be
a question mooted by philosophers ; but of the
fact itself we apprehend there can be little doubt,
viz, that the. aristocracy of 'intellect does not dis-

play an. abSolute and' entire coincidence in all -
we might be
cases with that of hereditary rank. If it did,
thefor sroucthaeaocfom::wseiatisotni .e as
Ifthia)rtesnseod7
Perplexed in the extreme. to account
professing to issue from the pen of his. Grace
to beafsosriecn7;
reason for remarking on the
manifesto of the
Noble Duke,. when that of his equally eloquent
friend and compeer, above alluded to, was suf-
fered to fall still-born into the, kennel, we must
freely confess that our motive is one of which
few dialecticians will acknowledge the dignity.
Lord Kenyon was a little personage,—we
in that line only with reference to which his Lol (1-
ship could pretend to any " personage's at all—.
namely, in his rank and political influence over
others. Now in these very respects we take the
Duke of Newcastle to be a great personage.
His Grace is reputed to have no less than twelve
or thirteen Members of the House of Commons,
who hold, their convictions, and indeed their

consciences, on most questions of state policy
at
the will and pleasure of his Grace. Lord
Kenyon's conclusions as to right and wrong, and
wisdom and folly, bear seldoM any perceptible
relationship to his premises; and, iiideed,, do nor
often lead one to suspect that his Lordship im
troubled with any such thing as premises or
grounds, whereon to build an opinion. But it
is far otherwise with his Grace : the data from

which he argues are palpable and pregnant,—
there is a beautiful affinity between his Grace'N
inference, even the most revolting and absurd,
and the point whence he manages to arrive at it
—insomuch, that throughout this long letter,
there strikes us to be no one conclusion speci-
fied by this very eminent Statesman and Mem-
ber-of-yarliament•maker, which cannot be traced

in a direct line to the principles already implied,
whether expressed or not, on which stands the
. _ _

whole edifice of his Grace's religious as well
political speculations. The Duke of Newoqle.-,
premises are in fact his Grace's hormuglis—iici,
and copious materials, we admit, for supplying,
such measures as he recommends, and such mo

tives as he laboriously, though far from success-
fully, disguises. The business of the Duke of
Newcastle's.letter is to make as general as he is
able that bitter spirit by which his own mind 114,1
for years been animated, against the whole
body of British subjects who petition for
rights withheld from them, but which are
enjoyed by others. This seeming animosity of
his Grace is not confined to the Catholics. In
the same page wherein he deprecates all exten•
sion of constitutional privilege to that sect, he
vehemently deplores the repeal of the Test Act,
and makes it a crime against the Duke of Wel-
lintiton, that the last session, by an " utter dere-.
liction of principle, sought to appease those who
were actuated by no principle but an hatred of
order !" This is the language in which IDA
hereditary judge of the realm speaks of the grem
body of Protestant Dissenters. Though we
have affirmed that there runs throughout this
amiable production an obvious relation between
premise and inference, so far as the state of the
author's mind is concerned, we look in vain fot
any such connexion to the fc..rm of argument as;-:
sumed by him. His 'Grace talks passionately
upon the matter, but with more than Ducal dis-
regard to the plebeian dutieS of definition and
demonstration. He tells the Government tlia4
it ought to act like " a good father of a fatally,"
but does not .illustrate with much felicity this
paternal system by his continued persecutio,
of the Catholics. He wishes to " preserve out-
religion and our laws," but forgets that he is. guilt - +,
of a petitioprincipii, in assuming that the religion
of Protestants would be injured by Catholic eon --
tentment, and that to maintain in all cases the ex-
i,ting laws, is neither more nor less than to abdi-
cate the right of legislation. So this fi-
gure of speech, " bane and antidote," the terms
" honest and virtuous feeling," as applied to
Oraugeism, " religious principles" as applied to
the same Orangemen, are buffeted about with
activity and profusion ;—but they prove no,
thing—they convince nobody—they are just so
much foam and fury. The Duke of Newcastle,
being an owner of boroughs, talks of the
"purity" of our Protestant Constitution, h
this cant ? No ; but his Grace is miserably
blind. Being an owner of a good large slice of
the House of Commons, the Duke is a mono-
polist all over. He sees the Constitution only
as a preserve for the use of those whose pro
perty it is. He therefore keeps all Peers out. of
Parliament who have not seats already. He
holds .all imaginable changes in abhorrence, br_..
cause one alteration may produce another-, and
an extension of the representative plivil:ege to a
ipeopleocit generally
spocus
of m
advancing might i
e:
iie e 0
tw, someatyo'atitly soopening
of the elective franchise, in behalf of certain
local sections of the people, Then he asks in a
strait-1.
'°f burlesque &Notion, which shocks us
"If we desert our God, will He not desert
us ?" Was ever violence like this ? Or was
As if the grant of a
names and sentiments?
. ,
right was to be made a matte;
strictly temporal
But, in truth, if the
there ever a more disgusting abuse of sacred
of guilt with ale. PoitY !
ficAest,
tailed
Iva.
.Ibeeotrionuggh.olfuttrielena:aeolliel
b religion be the gift of large hene-
Noble Pulse's
patronage be Ms " God,"
th© whole affair is sufficiently Antelligible ; though
.
we must apprise his Grace, that he is rather
sanguine in prou.tning that the whole English
nation will join, him in his household idolatry- -
Timos•
of dieaNtohrethg,rev,atil
the most serious attention. After noticingAssociation•''
on Thursday last, M
- r. Shed drew a picture of
the state of lreland, which is well deserving of
the
1,
array
booodiyil
rush upon the people, he proceeds—
yofltvhaiet Oarialioigpepocoitilnilniti3mittoy
" I turn now to the South of Ireland, or rather to
the three provinces where Catholics are nearly fifty
to one. There a system of wonderful organization
prevails. • The whole muss of the population is re.
(laced to an almost military unifdrinity of movement.
There is a dreadful unity among the people. Wit-
nesA Tipperary--thousands upon thousands assemble
dressed in a peculiar
attire. They
march to the
in every wish,
sound' of music--they advance in
ranks—they are divided and subdivided—they have
all the incidents of a rude, but still effective disci-
pline. In a week (it is better to speak the truth at
once)—in a week the Catholic population could
throw a hundred thousand men into the field. Such
then is the condition of the semi-Protestant North,