The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-27 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF A MURDERER.

jThe following account of the condemnation and
execution of a negro named Attention alias .3faquita,
at Cayenne, in French Guiana, appears in a French
Paper. For more than nine years past the negro
Attention had spread terror through the forest of
Guiana. He had escaped from his master, and had
become leagued with all the deserters from the co-
lony. Several detachments had been sent against
him, but they had never succeeded, and the super-
stitious children of Africa looked upon him as a su-
pernatural being, whom neither the Indian arrow
nor the European bayonet could wound. At length,
however, he was taken
jin the mountains of Kaw, and
his wife and another negress- were also apprehended
with him as accomplices. He was tried and con-
demned to death by the Criminal Tribunal of
Cayenne; but he appealed to the Cour Royale, and
the circumstances of his case were again investigated.
When he made his appearance in Court the greatest
attention was excited. He was a man about 40, of
middle height, but of colossal proportions, and the
two women were placed at the bar with
,him. He
persisted in denying the crime of brigandage im-
puted to him, but admitted that he had run away
from his master. In reply to the various accusa-
tions of highway robbery made against hint, he
said that if such crimes had been committed, the
authors might perhaps belong to his band, but he
had no participation in them. The Court, however,
confirmed the previous sentence, and he was ordered
for execution. At seven o'clock the next morning
he was brought out of prison ; he had on a red cap,
and wore a shirt of the same colour. He mounted
the cart without the least emotion, and the execu-
tioner,
Antonio, placed himself by his side. The
moment the horse proceeded, the culprit began to
sing a song in a sepulchral tone, which struck the
spectators with astonishment and terror. He was

inattentive to all around him, and his savage and
melancholy aspect indicated the most determined
firmness. He continued to si►ag until he arrived at
the place of execution, and he descended from the
cart in the most careless manner. He refused to
have a bandage placed over his eyes, and the execu-
tioner had raised the axe three times without daring
to strike the blow, such was the terror which the
prisoner's glance inspired. At last, however, the
fatal stroke was given, the head rolled from the
scaffold, over which the blood gushed in torrents,
and the Child of the Niger was launched into
eternity. The execution attracted a great ma►►y
spectators, such spectacles being rarely seen, as the
infliction of a cap►tal punishment at Guiana is be-
coming less frequent than ever.

Maineluke having won the tan)) at the last
Newmarket Meeting, his owner, Mr. GULLY, now holds the
championship of the Turf, as he once did that of the Ring.

The first English Physician employed at Court
was JOHN GADDLSDEN, who was called to attend
EDWARD 1., when ill of the small-pox. Before that time
none but foreigners were employed.

Mr. SHEARSAIITII, surgeon, of Worthing,
has published the following treatment in case of hydropho-
bia : —" On the morning of the 19th of May, 1809, a dog
in a highly rabid state ran through the villrge of Findun,
five miles from Worthing, and in his progress bit a servant
of Mr. TATS, then , residing there, who sent him to me as
soon as possible after the accident. The patient was a
youth about 17 years of age, and the wound was on the
ball of the thumb, presenting the usual rugged edge of bites
of this description. I advised him to submit to the exci-
sion of the bitten part without loss of time, to which he
reluctantly assented, and 1 set about it immediately. From
the application of the knife, and the excitement he was
under, he became faint, and I directed a young pupil I had of
only a few months' standing, to take down a bottle (labelled
at that time Aqua Ammonice Pure) for him to smell to;
a disposition, however, to complete syncope made me de-
sist for a short period, and I desired my youthful assistant
to pour some water into a two-ounce graduated measure
on the counter and give him to drink. Participating in
some degree in the situation of the patient, and his eye
catching the word Aqua, he instantly poured out nearly
the measure full of volatile solution instead of water,
which the other as instantaneouly swallowed. Its effect
upon the latices and oesaphagus may readily be imagined,
and his convulsive start from the chair, and the agony de-
picted in his face at tl.e moment astonished ma ; but cast-
ing my eyes upon the counter, I at once saw what had oc-
curred. Real water was now resorted to, of which he
drank copiously, to cool the fiery qualities of the previous
libation, and I finished the operation. Ile returned home,
and, except the inconvenience he felt on the score of de-
glutition, mastication, &c., for a few day; went on well
requiring merely a little aperient medicine; the wound
healed kindly and rapidly, and no symptom of hydropho-
bia was the result. I have detailed the above case with a
strict regard to truth, and without pretending to account
for the modus operandi of the Medicine, or venturing to.
recommend it undiluted and is so extraordinary a dose."
Gazette.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 2 7. 0 n Friday last, the Rev.
John Haymes, 8.A., of Clare-hall, was elected Fel-
low of that society.
The Rev. Wm. Heard Shelford, M.A., Fellow of
Emmanuel College, has been presented by the Mas-
ter and Fellows of that society, to the rectory of
Preston, in the county of Suffolk.
The Rev. Charles John Myers, M.A., Fellow of
Trinity College, has been presented, by the Master
ang Fellows of that society, to the vicarage of Flint.
ham, Nottinghamshire.
The Rev. F. Valpy, formerly of Trinity College,
was on Friday last unanimously elected Head Master
of Reading School, on the resignation of the Rev.
Dr. Valpy.
The Rev. W. Fletcher, of St. John's College,
Master of the Grammar-school, Woodbridge, In.s
been licenced to the perpetual curacy of Chartfiehl,
Suffolk, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. W.
Brame.

. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 26.—His Majesty's ship Bri-
tomart, Commander E. J. Johnson, sailed on Friday
for the Western Islands, with Mr. Read, British
Vice-Consul.

The Hightlyer cutter, tender to the Hyperion,
sailed on Wednesday for Portsmouth and Newhaven.
The Undaunted, 46, Captain Clifford, C. 8., was
towed from Barn Pool to the Sound, by the Meteor
steam-vessel, OR Sunday morning, and sailed to the
westward on the evening of the same day.
The Antelope cutter, Lietenant Loveless, tender
to the Ramillies, came in on Sunday night from the
Bristol Channel; and the Sparrow cutter, Lieut.
Moffatt, on Monday afternoon, and returned again
yesterday.
In Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid, Pylades,
113 acinth, Leveret, Royalist, Raven, Arrow, Star-
ling, Antelope, Meteor steam-vessel.
In the Sound—Bramble.

Captain Hamilton, C. 8., arrived here on Tues-
day, and took the command of the Druid yesterday.
The Chichester and Queensberry hired packets.
on the Falmouth station, have been discharged from
the service.

His Majesty's shir Tyne, Champion, Colum-
bine, and Manly, were ordered on the 19th ult. to
proceed from Halifax to Bermuda.. The whole
squadron were to go, with the exception of the
Rose sloop of war, which ship, with Admiral Sir
C. Ogle's lag, would remain at that port:during the
winter.

The Adventure, surveying vessel, was at Val-
paraiso on the 3d of August. She was about to
survey the coast to the southward of that port, more
particularly the beautiful island and harbour of Chi-
loe. The Heron, sloop of •war, would be the next
ship to England with specie from Peru and Chili.
Tlie Lightning, sloop of war, was at Teneriffe on
the sth of October; and the Medina, 20 guns, was
at St. Helena on the 21st of September. The
Athol, 28 guns, was at Teneriffe on the 11th of
September.
APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant Henry Preston to
the William and Mary yacht; Lieutenant E. Nor-
colt, to the Trinculo ; Lieutenant Caswell, to the
Victory; Mr. NV. B. M‘Doitald is appointed As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Pylades, vice Munro.
His Majesty's ship Zebra arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope, from this port, previous to the sth.
Sept. The Heron arrived at India from Chiloe
6th July, and sailed 16th for Islay. The Forte '
arrived at Lima from Chiloe 14th July, and Alert
12th, the former sailed again for Coquimbo 19th.
The Sapphire sailed from Lima for Guayaquil July
19. The Medina arrived at St. Helena from the
Coast of Africa 18th Sept., and remained there
with the Sybille on the 29th. The Renard, from
Falmouth and Cadiz, arrived at Gibraltar Oct. 23,
and the Dartmouth from Tangier 24th.
The James, Peake, of and from this port, arrived
at Prince Edward's Island 14th Sept. She fell in
with, Aug. 24, in lat. 46. long. 29, the Monarch,
of Sunderland, from Liverpool for Quebec, on he
beam ends, and abandoned by the crew, who wer
picked up in their boats by the James, and after-
wards put on board a ship bound to London. The
Monarch was seen to go down.

CONVENTION BETWEEN THE GREEKS

AND TURKS IN EASTERN GREECE.

" We, the undersigned, Ossak Aga, Osman Aga,
and Asian Bey Monhourdari, having been beaten in
a battle with the Greeks at Pietra, on the 12th in-
stant, and being now too weak to be able to pass
that position by open force, have requested the
Commander-in-Chief, Demetrius Ipsilanti, who com-
manded the Greeks in the said engagement, to al-

low us to pass unmolested, and ws-.0 have obtained
his consent on the following conditions :
" Article 1. The Stratarch D. Ipsilanti engages
to evacuate the upper fortifications of Pietra, com-
manded by the Chiliarch Christopulo H. Petro, at
break of day, and when the hostages shall have been
exchanged.
" Art. 2. He will deliver up all the Turks who are
prisoners in the Greek camp, as soon as the Turks
shall have freed all the Greeks who are prisoners in
their camp.

" Art. 4. He will accompany the Turkish troops
with the requisite force to Boudonnitza, in order to
ensure their safety, and the hostages will be ex-
changed there.
_ _ _

" ossak Aga, Osman, and Asian Bey engage—
Art. 5. On their road to Boudonnitza, not in the
least to injure the inhabitants, their harvests, or
their cattle.

" Art. 6. To take away with them the garrisons
which are now in Livadia, in the Khan of Cali,
TurcochOri, and Fontana—that is, to evacuate en-
tirely those positions, and to leave the garrisons of
Boudonnitza, &c., as far as the Thermopylae and
Alamauna, as they now are, and without strength-
ening them.

" Art. 8. The Turkish troops will begin ;their
march when the Stratarch shall have Informed them

that the upper: fortifications of Pietra have 'been
evacuated, and when the hostages shall have been
exchanged.
" Art. 9. The Greek prisoners are to be given up
before the Turks begin to move from Pietra.
" Art. 10. In testimony that the above articles
have been stipulated on the faith of our honour, we
have signed and sealed, and delivered, two copies of
this agreement.

" D. IPSILANTI, Stratarch.
" OSMAN AGA.
" OSSAK AGA.
" ASLAN BEY MONHOURDARL
" Camp of Pietra, Sept. 13 (25), 18.29."
[The third and seventh Articles merely mention the
names of die hostages exchanged.]

On the night of Tuesday week, a gang of
poachers invaded most of the estates in the neighbourhood,
the chief object being
the destruction of pheasants. They
visited in succession, or in separate parties, the estates of
'lenders),4e, Newton, Satchel, and 4be Duke of Itox-
Button's, and succeeded in cotnmitting considerable de-
predations. Titis is the first instance of such a "southern"
uttack in this generally quiet neighbourhood ; and as
meant are taken to prevent a successful recurrence, it is to
be hoped that the misguided men will not make another at-
tempt. The penalty for the offence is transportation, and
the Judges have already declared their determination
strictly to eofure