Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-09-30

any mode of obtaining his Subsistence,
and either unable OF unwilling to re.
turn TO the friend, he had deserted, he
allowed himself to be seduced TO JOIN
this piratical crew, and 30 participate In
those crimes, for per petrating which,
they have all suffered an ignomin ious
death-tbe well. msrited need of their
direful deeds. just before this wretch.
ed youth assembled the scaifold, he re.
uested q drapght of water, saying 1t
was the last thing ne should require 10
this world. A few moments before the
drop fell, his countenance depicted the
EXTREMIST agony; his eyes were rsised
to heaven, aad with a voice scarcely
heard, among the sobs which invo!un.
tarily burst from him, he exclaimed,
France-my poor mother {? the rect
| was inaudible-his voice became mar
ticulate, and the drop falling, the soul
of the misguided youth, without one
struggle. Quilted its earthly tenement
forever. The apparent sincerity with
which he repented Of his crimes, have
we trust, obtained him the forgiveness
of that ETERNAL BEING, whose delight
10 in mercy.
Francois Valebrouge, the Captain of
this lawless crew, prayed, but not su-
dibly. lie was a man advanced in
! years, and his countepance strongly
pourtrayed the wretch familiar with,
aud reckless Of guilt, He suffered with
composed ind ference,
Antonio Hernandez, the coloured
Spaniard; whose ruthless hand had be.
reft the unfortunate Underwood of his
life--a crime Which he perpetrased with
the most cold blooded atrocity-like al
internal demon stood On the platform,
careless of the past, deriding the pre-.
sent, and heedess Of the future: he
joined IN the prayers, bat we fear with
bis lips alone, for his heart seemed OBJ
durate and closed to every feeling of
humanity. Never can we forget the
expression OF bis countenaDoe as he
looked Oh the surrounding spectators,
for few moments before his existence
Terminated. He looked the fiehd whose
delight had been 10 torturing maD.-
HE physiognomy demonstrated that his
crimes arose, not from the impulse Of
sudden rage, or temptation, but from
the deliberate suggestions of a mind
hardened in guilt from long tratt: 10
blood and murder. Indeed, ne7er did
we before view couptenapce so hel.
lish--not that bis features were i'll.
formed, but because the general eapres,
Zion was particularly diabolical. His
last words were to the executioner
whom he cursed as he drew the cap o.
YER his eyes, saying to him 20 TO hell
MarceIlo Norriego. (the black sam.
bo,) with stupid or rather a vacant
look, surveyed the scene Of his latter
moments, This man had in the mur.
der by his haSds, Of Mr.. Stephenson,
emUlated the bloody assassin, Her.
nandez. He addressed the crowd, and
! by his absurdity, excited the risibility
of many. He said 10 broken Spanish,
that he attributed his msfortunes to
the Colombians, and hoped to see the
good King of Spain again master of
Costa Firma*
Hernandez and Norriego, when sus.
pended stroggled violently with death.
They evidently parted with existeace in
great agony; their commissions continu-
ed long after those Of their fellow aui-
prits bad ceased. The rafting in their
threats. & the evident grasp for breath,
almost induced vs. to consider that they
were not destitute Of sensation. The
suPersti,ious part of the spectators. as
usual attributed this accidental differ.
ence IN the death of these pirates, from
that OF the others, to Judgment on
them as the actual murderers. The
case of the boy alone excited corn mis.e.
ration. A medical practitioner was
DESTROYS to obtain Hernandez's head,
but the sherifNs officers did not think
they we're justified in complying,
$We cannot but admire this Bull, and al.
| SO the loyalty of the murderous black ruffian to
Ferdinand the adored. Hetoo doubtless tho't
like Mr.. Secretary Gaul, that the trade on
the Indian Coast should not be direct. but pau
some sl,gM duties tor general conuenaences
AUGUST &c.
EXECUTION
Of the pirates who murdered Leu.enant
Layton, MidshipmaD Strobe and four
other sailors on the Isle Of Pines. nd
of those who murdered Capt. Whit.
taker, of the sloop Endeavor, and
plundered the Martha Jane and Ra.
ton.
Benito Cassel, jesse Maria de los San.
COS, and Esteyan Martinez, convicted
of tha M u rdar of nna of ianf Iautoh,s