Star.
London, England, 1824-10-28 00:00:00

VAN I)IEME:\'S LAND.

Hobart Town Gazettes, horn the 9th of April to the
llth of Jane, have been received at the Nem England
Coffee-house. The new Court of Justice for this co-
lony, which has recently been appointed by the Royal
Charter, opened at Hobart Town on the 10th of May,
and commenced its regular judicial sittings on the 20th,
and had since been constantly engaged in trials for
criminal offences, of which the calendar presented a
very long list, and many of them of an atrocious de-1
scription. A public meeting of the resrectable inhabi-
tants of Hobart Town took place on the 20th of April,
fur the purpose of teturnins thanks to the Government
at home for the valuable privileges conferred on the co-
-1 long by the new Royal Charter, and to prepase a peti-
tion fur the further important benefit of the indepen-
dence of the etiony, as regards its union with New
South Wales. Subscriptions were entertd into at this
meeting, and a committee appointed to promote the
objects for which it had been convened..
Colonel Arthur, who had been appointed successor
to Lieutenant-Governor Sorell, in the government of
Van Dlemen's Land, an ived at Hobart Town en tlii
11th of May, and in a few days after took possession
of that office. Addresses have been presented to Lien...
tenant-Governor Sorell from all classes. of ,the inhabi-
tants, expressive of their regret at his relinquishing the
administration of the colony.
The Trench discovery ship La Coquille, M. Duperey„"
Commander, which had been lying. some time slit Port
Jackson, had proceeded in prosecution of het voyage.
Her next destination was the Society Islands. The Aus-
tralasian Company's ship Triton had sailed for Madras,
haviag on board a detachment of the 48th Regiment.
The Adrian, Gordon, arriveci at Hobart Town, had the
misfortune of having a boat upset off St. Paul's hland,•
when fc)tir persons were drowned, viz.—Mr. Jarres
Ripley, Mr. Wotsley (Sect etary to Colonel Arthur), the
new Deputy Governor (Mr. March, or Marsh, late of
Leeds), and the fourth, one of the bs.,at's crew.

F. 17nleirromne, D. Berlelean, J.. 1. Damarete, A.tor-
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bier, J. itnotiste Catinate, L..Cahurel, L. !tenant; C.
ivernois (Frenchman) A. Hernandez (a Spaniard of
colour), and 11 f. (a Negro of the latter nation),
being the pirates convicted of the murder of Captain
Underwood, Were, in pursuance of his Grace the Jo.
vernot's.warrant, executed yesterday morning. _
At four in the morning, they were girarded.ta the
Wherry ,Wharf, by the Sheriff's officers, and a detach-
mezt of the StAl Regiment. They were then embarked
on board a wherry, whicit was towed td Gallows Point,
by the boats of the Men of war lying at
.Point Royal.
Dori 1 their passage, several of the prisoners prayed
'moss devoutly, and continued with redoubled energy
their appeal to the mercy of their CREATOR, when they
beheld the.final scene which was to close the bloody
tragedy they had so long acted.
J. J. Darnarette, a good-looking youth, not yet 47,
wept. bitterly. He said that his assodiates had per-
suaded him to join his fortune wilt theirs, and that he
did not know what their intentions were till they had
committed the crimes for which he was about to suffer.
with them. Just before this wretched youth ascended
the scaffold he requested a draught of water, saying it
was the last thing he should require in this world. , A
few moments before the drop fell his countenance de.
picted the greatest agony ; and heesclaiined, " France
—my poor mother !" the rest was inaudible, and the
drop fell. _
F. Valebrouge, the Captain of this lawless crew,
prayed, but not audibly. He was .a man advanced in
years, and his countenance strongly pourtrayed the
wretch familiar with. and reckless of guilt. He suf..
feted with hardened indifference. A. Hernandez, the
coloured Spaniard, whose ruthlesi hand had bereft the
unfortunate Underwood of his life, stood on the plat-
form careless of the past, deriding the present, and
heedless of the future. He looked the fiend, and never
did we before view a countenance so hellish—not that
his features were ill-formed, but because the general
expression was particularly diabolical. His last words
were to the executioner, whom he cursed as he drew
'the cap over his eyes, saying to him—" Go to hell."—
M. Norriego (the black), with a stupid, or rather vacant
look, surveyed the scene of his latter moments. This
man had, in the murder by his hands of Mr. Stephenson,
emulated the bloody assassin Hernandez. He addressed
the eveed, and by hii absurdity excited the risibility of
' many; he said, in broken'Spanish, " That he amass:ed
his misfortunes to the Colombians, and hoped to see the
good King of Spain again master of Costa Firma."
Hernandez and Norriego, when suspended, struggled
violently. They evidently parted with existence in great
agony ; their convulsions continued long after those of
their frllow-culprits had ceased. .

AUGUST 26.—The following is an account of the exe-
cution of the pirates who murdered Lieutenant Layton,
Midshipman Strode, and four sal:ors, on the Isle of
Pines, and of those who murdered Captain ‘Vhittaker,
of the sloop Endeavour, and plundered the Martha
Jane and Raton:

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B. Cassel, J. M. de los Santos, and E. Martinez, con-
victed of the murder of one of Lieutenant Layton's
party, the two former as principals, and the other as an
accessary before the fact ; B. Frayel, B. Arcia, F. C.
Mmalles, and F. Tamarex, convicted of rations acts of
piracy on board the Martha Jane, the Endeavour, and
the Raton, were yesterday morning guarded au the
place of execution in the same manner as those executed
the previous day. The prisoners, after praying with
much apparent devotion, ascended the scaffold. Cassel
was the first who acended ; he addressed the spectators,
saying—" Hear now what I say, for I am telling the
truth before GOD; it would be useless to fabricktea
falsehood when I am just about to appear befose GOD
and the Saints. The sentence by which that poise
man (Martinez) is about to be hung is most uojum.;
for he had no concern with us who were the pirates
he murdered nci- one, and he robbed no one. I am
guilty, and so are the others; but. not Martinez, who
is unjustly judged. I murdered the Officer, for I
killed bins after we took him and had tied him to a tree,
and I ate suffering justly; but poor Martinez is under-
going this death for the crimes of us. Now and ever I
will declare his innocence ;" and again he is vocated the
name of the ALMIGHTY in attesting the truth of this
statement of the innocence of Nat tines, hoping that
some good person would let his friends in Cuba know
that he was not guilty. J. M. de los Santos also con-
fessed his guilt.; but strenuously asserted the innocence
of Martinez. Martinez was a decent looking man; and
of rather prepossessing appearance; he several times
declared that he was innocent; and when the cap was
drawn over his eyes he begged it-should be withdrawn,
and as if fearing that death would prevent the ex-
' pression of his feelings, with rapid utterance and
shivering, he exclaimed—" An innocent man dies
for what he never did ; my last words, Oh, GOO r The
drop then fell. Moialles also said he was innocent.
Another said he was a thief and a murder er, but no pirate.
,—The.other culprits confessed their guilt, and acknow-
ledged the justice of their sentence. Martinez died
instantaneously, but several of the others Here much
convulsed. One of them, a very old man, seemed to
be long in pain, for his bands were clenched till the
nails tattered the flesh. Just before the drop fell, the
general trembling of all the prisoners, and their shull
ejaculations to their Patron Saints, manifesteJ the hor-
ror_ ss ith which they anticipated the death to n hich they.
were doomed. Previously to their execution, one of
thete criminals stated there wet e several hundred pirates
on the coast of Cuba, and this would always be the
case while the merchants and storekeepers of tinstisland
purchased from the pirates their plunder.; and varier*
Authorities pet mitred, and secretly encouraged them
in their nefarious acts. This was stated lit' the•piesedee
of a Spanish Priest.

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'NE CRUISERS.

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LONDON.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1824.
ST. SOWS AND ST. Jallalll.l.lDAT AT THE BMC.
TIM FUNDS.

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PROM Yin NIiM:IMM DIARY, SEPTEMBER 2.
The Governor .1 this i-land has received a c0mm0ni...,,..
ni...,,.. • • e Dutch Consul, the contents of which
ate as follow :
" Netherlands Consular Offiae in the Balearic Islands.
"Bear Admiral Wolterbeck. Commandant-Genet al of the squa-
dron of the King of the Netherlands in the Mediterranean, Worms
wet, ender this day's date, what I bete transcribe.
' On board Me Netherland Majesty's ship Holland, In
Port Mahon, August 51, 1824.
• Stet.—Having arrived in thk port, I hasten to inform yon. that
by an order of his Netherland Majesty's Minister for Foreign
Affairs, which reached mein the Bay of Algiers on the 19th inst.
I shall be *leder the necessity of confining myself to the protection
of our own commerce and shipping. Although I take for granted
that his Majesty's Government and that of his Catholic Majesty
have reciprocally communicated to each other the motives and
grounds of this occurrence, yet I deem it necessary to apprise you
of the same, and to request that you will communicate it confiden-
tially to the Governor of this Island, or to any other authority that
you may think proper, that they may take their measures for the
security of the Spanish conunerre, and shipping, and guard against i
any unexpected attack f the Algerines, who, after the treaty
concluded with the English will certainly fit out their ships of war.
(Signed) wourEttup:cK.' "
All n hich is made known to the Public, that the
merchants may take such precautions as they may
deem necessary for their seem ity.
By the Gotrernoes comitand,
(Signed) , J. M. BEN ITEz, Secretary.

'ROYAL EXCH A N G F.. TWF.T.VF. O'CLOCK:

This day is a Holiday at the Bank and Stock Exchange, but the Fo-
reign Market is open, and a great number of brokers are assembled
on the !loyal Exchange. Consols have been done at 961 J, but no
bubiness of Importance.
An Express has arrived from Paris, bat the prices are yet kept a
-secret, although it is said they come 102 f. 60c. to 70c.