Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-01
From the BALTIMORE pauio,.
EXECUTION OF PIRATES.


A commercial friend has favored US with Cadiz
paper, received here BY tho Dunies. Capt. Harvey.
from which an account IL taken OF the Execution Of
those monsters in human shnpe. who. after capturing
tho British ship Morning Star. tho American ship
Topaz, and severn, other vessels, committed crimes
Of the most unparalleled bdrbar,ty and cruelty the
bare recital Of which must cause humanity to shud
der. After giving tho sentence of tho Court aud the
fact OF the execution, the editor of the Csdiz paper
details the procccdings of the Pirates from the limo
of their leaving Rio Janeiro to the close Of their
scenes OF plumber, outrage aud assassinetions.
Translated Tor The Banore ra'r,o, from tho Cadn al
Jan. ~, 1885,
BY order of his ExceIlency the Governor 0I< tkls
place, we insort the following certificates:
Don Jorge Lasso de Ia Vega, Lieutenant in the
Royal Navy and Judge Of the law suit prosecuted by
Royal order against the of the BRAZILIAN brig
Defensor do Pedro, accused of Piracy and other
crimes.
certify, that i'll tho same suit in its military de-
partmsnt at page 1875, is the sentence pronounced
ny ths advice OF the ordinary Consul which was ap-
proved OF by his cx-ellcncy the General Command
ant of Marines of tn department against the ao-
cused-its tenor is as follows:
Seateneia.-Having seen the memorial presented
on the 9Th October, 1928, by the Governor of this
department TO his exceency Senior Don Jose dc Que
vedo, General Commandant of the sa,nc TO the end
that he would permit me proceed against the crow
OF the piratica brig Deicnsor de Pedro, which has
been stranded on the coast of Saint Maria on the
night of the 9th May Of the same year. the crew and
curry from the other authorities.
The whole having been thoroughly examined with
inc consent and advice Of Gen. Don Jorge dc Lasso
Lieutenant in the ROYAL NAVY and JUDGE in this
cause and hearing the defences of the criminals by
the officers. The counsel has condemned the follow
ing individuals otthe above mentioned crow to suffer
the Punlshments which expressed in the following
form:
Banitt Soto, to be hung dragged along tho ground
and quartered and the quarters placed on hooks On
the shore -
Jose de los Santos, to be hung, quartcred' and his
head placed on a hook tho sea shore-that de-
scrption OF his person be to the authorities of the
marine, to the Peninsula and West Indies in order
that ho should be sent back to Cadz for execution
Nicolas Fernandez, Antonio de Lorona Saint Cry
Barbarian, Maria Guillermo Tc;o, Federico Lerendu
and Nuno Pereyro, TO be hung. quartcrod, and their
heads 10 be placed on hooks OH the sea shore Fran-
cisco Goubin, Pedro Antonio, Domingo, and Joaquin
Francisco, to be Duny.
The Pilot Manuel Antonio Rodriguez, to 10 years
IN the House OF Correction and 10 be present al the
execution.
Cayctano Fcrrera, to years in the House Of Cor
rccton, to be present at the execution.
Manuel Jose de Freites, TO years in the House of
Correction from the time ic has been in prison. and
To be present Ut the execution.
Jose Artonia Silva and Antonin Joaquin to @ years
imprisonment without the above deduction and TO be
present at the cxecuton.
The Negro Slave Joaquin Palabra, TO be present
at the and to be given UP the Portuguese
Consul to be sent TO his owner. The whole in con-
formty to the laws.
San Fernando, Dec. 3. I8so.-Pedro de Varcncia.
Juan &c Dios Satcio, Manuel, Viavicenci. Andres
de Candano, Moteo do Abbornoz, Antonio Villabra,
Rafel de Eliza, Antonio Tiscar, Ildefonso de Yold
The which was executed in the Fort of La Puerta
dc TERRA OF this place, the front of the Day.
ana yesterday, and IN consistence with the ROYAL
order of the 29lh Dec. last, in which his Majesty
commands that this should be MADE known through
the public papers of this city, give tho present
which sign in Cadiz, on The i2!h Jan;.1sso ssa
Having publishod the foregoing sentence, we deem
it ft that we should give short account of the cx
ccsses committed by the of tho above mentioned
brig e. !,
and deeds of these men, because tho fiIits or
,''is PorioJicafTviI permit il, and bccausc we
know that the Military Judge, Don Jorge Lasso, with
whose friendship honorcd, intends publishing
by Royal permission, the proceedings OF the tribunal
with all the circumstances.
In the month Of November, 1927, the Brazilian
brig Defensor de Pedro set sail from Rio de Janero
for the coast Of Nina commanded by I,ieutenn of
the Royal Navy, Don Pedro de AIaris de Sousa Sar
Inento with Of forty men, amonp then, four
Frenchmcn and some few Spanurds.
short time after having arrived on that coast on
tne Zoth JAM 1923, Prohng themselves ofthe capt
ain anu some others being shore, eigh, of the
CRIMINALS who have suffered tho punishment of death
and SIX others mutnied, Of whom orc is prisoner in
Gibralter, one has fled and the other four were muir
dered by their own companions and having mal-treat
themselves masters of the vessel-they sent ashore
IN the boat those whom they believed to be less ne
ccssaIy and forced those to remain who they thought
would be useful to them. They Obliged the Pilot
Manuel Antonio Rodriguez TO remain, that he should
carry them to the south of the line, and when there
they found field for variety of assassinatons and
atrocities.
10 TACT on the 18th Feb, 1929, about daylight, they
boarded near the Island of Ascension, an English
ship, the Morning Star, Capt. Gibbs, from Colombo,
IN the Island of Ceylon, for London. with cargo
OF coffee and cinnamon and passengers among them
SICK soldiers and several woman and children, on
board which ship they committed such excuses that
humanity and decency revolt at rejecting on them,
and OF which we gave in oil Diafio of 9th
July, 1922 1t is only necessary to state that hav-
ing destroyed the rigging, taken AWAY with them tho
compasses, charts and other instruments and
having secured the men in the hold, the women and
children IN the cabin, they ecutticd the slip and a.
bandoned her end besides that the captain and men
wh,n they retained on board the brig were killed
one by one--h few days afterwards they fell in with
the American ship Topaz from Calcutta for Boston
70 which after having plundered and killed all on
board, they SGT fire TO her. Killing afterwards the cap
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