The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-30 00:00:00

PI R;C;F:4:VstiMURDER.

MOH COURT OF ADMIRALTy. Enivavanit. Z4v.

This day P. Hamm and F. &masa were platted at •
AlVelise . *WO inmate-of his Majesty's ArNotate, on
rr"iminaT letters, charging them with isiroticatly seiz-
ing the brig Jane, of flibraliar, on hrr voyage . from
that place to the Brazils, freighted with .a valuable
cargo, including specie to the amount uf 35,169 Spa-1
nish dollars; and further charging then with murder-1
ing Thomas Johnston, the Master, and a man named
James Patterson, a seaman, of the said brig ; and also
with confining Peter Smith and Robert Strachan, sea-
men. in the forecastle, where, by attempting to snail-
cate them with smoke, the prisoners succeeded in terri-
fying the said Smith and Strachan to assist •them in
seizing the vessel, which they afterwards sunk off the
coast of Ross-shire, and landed the speck on the Isle
of Lewis, in that county, %here they were apprehended.
An Interpreter liming been sworn, to interpret
faithfully, the indictment was then read over, to
which both the panels pleaded Not liuilty. The wit-
nesses called on the part of the prosecution, were An-
drew Camelier, a Maltese boy, David Robertson
Strachan, Peter Smith, and Johanna l)hura, an Italian,
who compos. d part of the crew .f the Jane ; and Ilugh
Mamie-it, of Barra, Mr. It. M‘lyer, Surveyor of the
Customs, at Sumnoway, John Murray, sub-tenant iu
the parish of. Stornoway, and Kenneth M•lver, who
had seen the vessel or the prisoners after the vessel
was on shore, and %Ir. Abraham Levy Itensusan, who
had been instructed to take out insurance on the Jane.

The prisoners' declaration wu then read, in which
an exculpation was attempted on the following allega-
tions:—That it was the Captain who shot Patterson,
and that this was the only shot which was fired. That
they all struck at the Captain together, and could not
say who it was that killed him. That they could not
say who it was that proposed to conceal the alollars,
but they all assisted in doing so.

After II trial of sixteen hours, the LORD ADrOCATS
rose, and addressed the Jury at some length, for. the
prosecution, and Mr. Matm.tsn in behalf of tlie.pri-

SO.net S. •
The J1:1102 ADMIRAL then took a very minute snr-
vey of all the evidence, and delivered his opiiitin on
the points which weir principally dwelt upon by the
Counsel on bath si.les ; his Lordship charged the Jury
to consider of their verdict until half-past two next af-
ternoon, till which titue the Court. at half-past ail in
the morning, adjourned.
TUESDAY, .1.1135 C o't•t.ocx.—The Court met at half-
past two. according to adjournment. The jury hsving•
been called over, delivered in their written verdio,
unanimously finding the prisoners—Unaty. .

The. JILIge A mural hereupon proceeded to pass en
the unhappy men tie last awful sentence of the law,
ordaining the pan •ts to be taken hack to the To:loath
and there fed upon bread and water, until the first
Wednesday in January ; at nine o'clock sin the morn-
ing of which day, they are to be conveyekto the
Sands of Llith, and there to be hanged by the com-
mon executioner ; their bodies afterwards to. be 'at die
disposal of Alexander Munroe, Esq. Professor of Ana-
tomy in the University of Edinburgh.
. Human is a good looking man, about3s years of age,
of a wild countenauce and peoetrOing eye. it said.
he is a native of Sunderland, and was'io the 'l4,l,titiy.
log the bite war, awl While a prisoner. of war. lOramtee
he married- t native of that cosatiy,.:lty whoa 10:44.
several 'ebildien. She is in let westing
items. and Was is the Conn dating thi Avlttlifiese.o4
the trial, and was trectehtly obsereal sheath .--
thistles is said w be a Amalie of 'S.--

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LON DON:
FRIDAY EVENING, NGVEMIIER 39, 1821.
STOCK EXCII.ISGE. 7'WELVW. O'CLOCK.
The Bank is slant to-day, bat the Stock-Exchange is
open. Consols 731 for the new Account.

Philadelphia papers have arrived this morning to
the lst of November, from which we extract the fol-
lowing :

[1,110:41 TITF: P.IPEtt OP TITS 39111 OTT OCT.]
THE FLOUR MARKET.

During yesterday we experienced, as might natud
rally be expected, a variety of reports from the east
and south, but they hail not any considerable operation
on the state atilt. Market. indeed, it may be said,
that Flour is in suspense, although, we understand,
the millers are sending a considerable quantity into
town. Their stock of Wheat is very considerable,
but, from want of water, very few are able to grind
much. Wheat Flour stored up in their mills is
coming in copiously.
SLAVE TRADE.
The following is an abstract from on board his 31a-
jesty's ship Tartar, Sir George Collier :—At Bonny,
two slave vessels were taken by the boats of the Tartar
and Thistle, by the good managem.nt of Lieutenant
Hagan, Commander of the latter vessel. This young
man put the prime of all his brig's company into a
canoe, which had come olT; went alongside the Slave
ship, a Spanish schooner, having on board a gang of
the mist desperate villains. As it was dark, the stir.
prise was, complete ; he fully succeeded ; his canoe
captured the schooner, having 450 slaves and s' most
desperate crew of 50 men. The schooner was prepared
to resist, having her cannon all primed and 50 muskets
on deck. As the black people.in the canoe were too much
under fear of death to betray, when hailed by the
ISpanish schooner, they answered all was well ; in the
next moment, Ilagan and his 35 men were on the deck,
when the master and others seized the small arms and
kept up a rapid fire, by which three British seamen
wore wounded, and in the alarm many female slaves,
not in irons, leaped ovm.rboard and were carried away
by the sharks. Whether the Crew of this scitodiesti,
many of whoa* by, their language _must be either
English or Americans, are apprehensive of some evil
for their snieileads„ I know no, but they seem veryl
contrite and fall of sorrow. Lime/tint Ranh pro.
;aided sap the rim is OW of a Pertagseeevef wbikh•
IMP got iitormatioo, atttt Sher ;advise the firs of ho

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guns, boarded and carried her. This vessel, thoaak
only commenced her slaving a week had 100 on boars',
One of the Slave vessels captured was replete With
human misery, the dying and the dead were mingled
together. Nothing can be more horrible than the
treatment and condition of the slaves in their passage
,frogs - Africa • fever and diiiiiiejrweri let loose,
the hatches scarcely open.
t oftarsox.—Prom the list Citracoa tie
'wished-for convoy from Curaroa, bringing n'tialberlei,
emigrants, has arrived, both natives of the cowry
and Spaniards ; at least we have the satisfactioli fat
all those who came are honest men, worthy of abidiag
in Coluinbia, whose ahsence we were.wont to conirs.
plate with grief—highly pa%iotic characters, isio,
amid the disorder and hustle of hostilities, had.,„;,hs
refuge in foreign islands, and who now clasp as ie their
arms with cordiality and joy—men, who have beealt,
deceived in their principles, whose virtues and puil
faith are already too well established, ant 44,.
,fret of the past is as grateful to ns as it is hoesaramo
to them—men who, during seven long years' shoss„,
have never bent their necks to any foreign yoke—ja
short worthy of the springs of Caraccas, emleentpatriotse
the ornaments of their soil, whose selierinp, "lose
elnstaney in hardshipe, have bequeathed than the
eternal love of iheir fellow-citizens.

[FROM THE NEW ENGLAND covree,norac.l
Ltvenroot., Nov. 30.—Arrived this day tittles•
caster, Burkhart, from Philadelphia ; sailed an the ith
instant, and experienced very bail weather. Captain
11. reports flour at 10 dollars per barrel : Exchangeh.
No vessels have left this port since Monday utak,
and this day it blows a very heavy gale.

We understand a further redaction in the army is
about to take place, and that Ministers intend embo-
dying 20,000 militia, for which- notice has been given
to the Magistrates. This we are led to think is a
Salvo, an universal medicine to care all political dis.
orders at the Meeting of Parliament. This new es.
listment will create new friends fur the givers aeon.
missions and other good things, and strengthen that
majority which is already too great. The wiJitia
is, no doubt, the Constitutional force of the eats.
try, and if applied to its general interests weeld
he the most saving force, but when every tillage
is directed to the one object, saving will be oat tbe
question. This maumuvre is like the infallible
trum that cures eveey allerder, and is afterward.
found inadequate to this:cure of any. There N
nothing in the way of saving or reduction, but has
been wrung from Ministers like so many drspi if
blood, and nothing but the (head of National Beak.
roptcy, will ever tempt them to give up the..derieg
ban ye, a Standing Arriuy. Ppr cap. galifii sod
black-drummers, bare long been thought iecsuavy to
teach wisdom and give understaiding to the putple.—
In every country where the army leas been the up-
port of the Government, a change hes been alwartie
most easily effected. The recent examples is Spoil
and Portugal, should hold out a lesson of prudent .
to those who vainly suppose their security lies in *
array of havonets, mustachios, anal mercenary seem.
The people of every country is its strength. Tbeyan
the pay-masters, and entitled to protection from tart
they pay. In Spain, limo overturned, at once, fie
abominations of ages, and shewed the people Ask
power. The electric shock was immediately felt is
Portugal, and the wisdom of the nation was ailed
into action. All joined in the regeneration of Atli
country, and the finest principles of other governmese
were selected to mature a plan in which the whole pop*
lation is so deeply interested. These great chasm
we hope, sill prove a warning to all other nation,

The hireling Press speaks of the calling out
Irish 'rem. n. That such a measure should be resorted
to, we are not surprised; nor would any thing write
us that would create fresh misfortunes to the peopled
Ireland, already borne down by a system of nivel,.
We have seen the Yeomen when they were respectable,
we hare seen them dwindle into an ORANGt FACTIOS.
We have seen their ranks thinned by the pecessioa of
the Catholics, on account of continued insult. Aid
we are now to see them called on to irritate, lerted
of appeasing the unhappy people of !reset rt,
have repeatedly said, and will continue to 111161
the present state of Ireland is chiefly attribertable to
impolitic tiovernment and its Agents. What
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applied power could raise the ()range misereants hte
further notice ; what but persecution could stimulate
to a continuance of those bat barons °precasts that
goad the peasantry to madness ? nothing bat rrue:tr
and ex action in every shape from the
that sells his country, to every petty fellow is otibee•
The land is let three or four times over, every jobber
has a profit. The parson comes in for a kith ; good
or bad, he thinks it too much trouble to let Lis
tythes to his parishioners, he lets them to a jobber.
or tythe-farmer, who must bare his owe riot
if that is not paid or the tythe not taken in kip'.
a process at the next Assizes or Sessions, erforair;
to a new Act, where In all likelvhow!, the esiti Paso
sits on the bench to adjudicate the cause of his "sr*
iTtbe-farmer. Beside the pour unfortunate tenant Ito
the assessed and parochial taxes to pay, and gig 11l
quota to the Minister of his own religion, along will'
the hide be must pay for the education of his ebildrer.
In fact. half the property of the people is divided le
tween the Law ansl the Church, at.d, instead
blessings which should proceed from both, it is
`Principally Ireland owes its heaviest olatertases• "