American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-07-27

in the preservation OF his lie.
Mr. Ferdinand Gsuno,Iiac, the next witness
examined is native of the province OF iahS"ruoe
in France. and has resided as merchant III Ma
tanzas for seven years. He is man OF good coan
tenance and department. and IS unable 10 sPean
word of English. He said he knew hothis " ~.
brir Crawford until he took his passage on Dcaru OIL
her. Besides himself there we're siS passengers
and the supercargo-Tardy-the three opahiafas
and two men who spoke English lie diu not
think he had ever before seen Iardy or the Span
iartls to know them HIS detail OF the c'rcumstan-
ces and time of sailing and OF the events OF the but
cherry of the Captain and crew, in nearly all the
main particulars, correspondent exactly, with the
testimony of Mr. Dobson. 1t IS unnecessary 10
recapitulate those parts Of this tragical story that
have been already told. This witness saw some
things which MIR Dobson did not, and as he IN
derstands Spanish knew more OF the CONVERSE
tons and intentions of the Desperadoes-but we
shall omit those parts of his testimony that have
been embraced above He stated that he had come
on board with the intention of going to New fork
to attend to some commercial business in that city
The Spanish passengers told him they had ST. 900
On board, were going to New York to purchase
vessel. and intended to 60 to the coast OF Africa
On the first of June he noticed that the crew we're
taken sick the mate (Dobson) being much more SO
than any of the rest. lie did not know the cause,
but was told after the massacre by the Spaniards,
that the captain wanted to poison every body on
board that he might get The money OF the passen-
gers He slept on deck the night of the lst June
and about or o'clock he was reused by a noise
On the deck He found Tardy at the helm near
which he Law 1t was dark and he could not well
distinguish thngs-but he saw two men struggling
TWO or three yards from him, one OF them fell. He
lid not know who they we're; Pepe told him alter
wards it was himself Killing the captain but Felix
IN. oh hat o hal illnut no ants
he saw man despatching some one with an axe,
and he thought he recognized the voice OF Pope,
who afterwards told him it was SO. lie saw man
CONN., ny up from the cabin. and one OF the Spanards
stabbed him, and he fell back into the cabin. lie
recognized him to be the man who spoke English
and had a sore on his leg (which was the case, by
Mr.. BLOSSOMS testimony, with the Irish passenger.)
Felix told HIM that he had killed him, and that he
thought at the time it was Robinson coming up
with gun. At day break the witness saw Robin
ION and the sailor in the water, and confirmed all
that Dobson had said respecting them. When the
man was called down from the mast, the Spaniards
GOT around him,-Pepe asked the others why they
were delaying killing him. COuro replied that he
| wanted to give him good and fatal blow, and not
to wound him The only geamof mercy that ap-
pears in this whole scene OF savage barbartv. |
Pope then ran on him and he fell overheard After
lay break they loaded two guns. called up man
as over wound, and ordered him to jump over
board, which he did and as he went one Of them
tired, and as he thinks missed HIM. The other
not him after he fell in the water. They then
auled up the dead body from the cabin. They
xamined it, and remarked that the stab given him
"as hp finest they had yrer seen in all their liues it
had SO completely sersred the heart. lie heard the
man fall from the rigging as described by Dobson.
The Spaniarts, after the buchery was over, asked
arIp bo hot h,,u, than l.
he had promised they said all they had were bro
ZEN and il any thing should happen they would
have nothing to defend themselves. Tardy pro
missed to buy them the first time he got to land.
The clothes of the Spaniar'ls were bloody, and
they threw them into the sea, as they did most OF
the clothes of the and passengers. Three or
four days afterwards, he heard them say that the
nate and cook were only fattening 70 be killed
| iardy assumed the command, and lex was 20
keep the books, and he also had some little know
ledge of steering. Tardy showed the witness the
false papers obtained in Havana for the vessel
and said they cost him 25 doubloons. The reason
nc gave the witness for saving his life was, that he
was his countryInan that he had been Pirate for
a great while, and had never injured q Frenchman
and should not commence then. The same pretext
vas gwen to this witness to Dobson, for the mas
sacre and OF the Interior views of the party. When
near st. Mary's, Tardy proposed to let him 70 ON
shore. and to give him $50 to bear his expenses BY
and to New York. He had strong hopes of being
spared, until he saw the Spaniards one day making
a dirk out of an old knife-bu, 'rariy gave him
most solemn assurances Of his safety, in which he
had some hope. as he recolected how he ha, made
hun stand by him at the helm, and protected him
during the butchery. He told the same story with
the mate as to their arrival in the Chesapeake, the
pilots, the conduct of Tardy, and the escape Of
Dobson in the boat at Old Point Comfort. AS soon
as Dopson made off in the boat, Tardy appeared to
be greatly alarmed said two or three words to Dob.
son who replied in one wort-none of which he nm.
derstoof. fardy then told him he was lost man
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