Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-26

your innocence guide you safe through
this Trial. Had I taken your ad.
wee, | would still enjoy Life, Liberty,
and clear conscience. But | have
not, and perceive my case to be hone
less, therefore have come TO the de-
termination To deprive them of the
pleasure ofbeholding me publickly ex-
ecuted, as after | am condemned they
will not give me the opertuny, and
may God forgive me. George this is
an awful warning to you, aud hope
II will be the means of reforming many
TO virtue. Albeit they may meet with
success at the commencement of vice,
I. is short lived, and sooner or later it
they persis, in 1t, they will NEE; with a
similar fate to mine. Oh! George for
give me for what have caused you and
others to suffer on my account, and my
last benedictiou rests upon you. A
long last Adieu.
RICHD CROWNINSHIELD. Jr.
VebSter's concluding remarks -
Conference.-The confession is soNIull
that it admits ONO argument-you are
not bound to pay it any uncommon
Difference if it stands alone; but it 10
entirely cOrroborated; and | have been
struck with one. thing-that in the
whole course sfthe argument of defen-
dant's counsel, when contending that it
ought not t. be'admi;;;SSaa as evidence,
they did not make the least ATTEMPT to
show that it was untrue that there was
iiie least mistake in it. Therefore il
was right in :hem in their earnest desire
to help the prisoner, to struggle to ex-
clude it entirely, because, ifil is in evi.
dence, it is conclusive and settles the
question. On this part of the case
have nothing to say, it is as uaargua ole
on this side as OF the other, 1t is a
full and free confession Of gu,lt--oi
being the origin and mover of muir
der in all its circumstances 1nparallel-
led in our age. When you, and l,
and all of us, shall have ended our
earthly existence, it will forever remain
strange, a surprising, and astonishing,
event, that in this age so enlir, ,,,,,o,ed
and IN THIS country 90 civilized, in the
! -S.", society SO refined, and in a
family so respectable, MN could be
found so reckless of lie, % utterly re-
gardless of the law. of G,d and man,
so ipsensible TO the dreadful couse-
quences of crime, as to go deliberately
to work and procure the nurder of an
aged and venerable and unol(ending
man and all for what? For mere
pieces of siiver-all merely TO come
earlier into possession oil ptoperty--or
into possession OF that which he could
not possess but through blOod Gen
tlemom, IT becomes us to entertain a
strong compassion for the unhappy in
divIdual before YOU But i, is for his
internal rather than his external con.
ditIon that your pity is to be extended
TO him 1t is his grestest misfortune
to- be what he is, and not to be where
I ne is. Nothing can better him for
time or Tor eternity, but To be brought
TO due sense of the scene before him.
We wish him well--but we are To look
at>hIs violation Of the laws Of God and
man--his crimes are great; his acts
have been enormous: perfidy to the
government has been ADDED to the
catalogue, already black as'ink. 1t is
not the least horrible transaction, that
his confession cont ans no evidence of
repentance. There is not one spot to
be discerned in his destiny, and if it
shall not be Illuminated even by ray
ofpeni,ence, twill be dreadful dread :
ful dreadtul--,ali black.
George Crowninshield, the last of the per-
sons implicated in the murder or DIR. White
OF Salem, has been acquitted by the Jury
indicted on another offence; gave bonds for
500; and has gone home with mis- father.
The Hornet. Nearly a year has
rolled by since the loss OF this noble
ship and her entire crew, together
with a large party of American gen.
tIemen of Tampico, who we're visit
ing her Oh party of pleasure Just
before the hurricane came up-one
of the most awful ever known-and
buried every thing in the bosom Of
the ocean. Not solitary spar ha IS
ever been seen to tell her awful fate
A new species OF corn, from Chi
ma, has been introduced into Ire
laDd--a sort OF skihless oats. the most
valuable produced ID any Country. 1t
has many advantages over other graiD-
when thrashed from the sheaf il is
exactly like oat meal fit tor immediate
use, and free from any particle Of rlnd
or musk. The flavor is delicious, aud
IT contains much farinaceous, matter.
NOTICE.
Mr.. Edward Harris,