Star. — 1824-10-28 (London, England)

AUGUST 26.—The following is an account of the execution of the pirates who murdered Lieutenant Layton, Midshipman Strode, and four sal:ors, on the Isle of Pines, and of those who murdered Captain ‘Vhittaker, of the sloop Endeavour, and plundered the Martha Jane and Raton:  • B. Cassel, J. M. de los Santos, and E. Martinez, convicted of the murder of one of Lieutenant Layton's party, the two former as principals, and the other as an accessary before the fact ; B. Frayel, B. Arcia, F. C. Mmalles, and F. Tamarex, convicted of rations acts of piracy on board the Martha Jane, the Endeavour, and the Raton, were yesterday morning guarded au the place of execution in the same manner as those executed the previous day. The prisoners, after praying with much apparent devotion, ascended the scaffold. Cassel was the first who acended ; he addressed the spectators, saying—" Hear now what I say, for I am telling the truth before GOD; it would be useless to fabricktea falsehood when I am just about to appear befose GOD and the Saints. The sentence by which that poise man (Martinez) is about to be hung is most uojum.; for he had no concern with us who were the pirates he murdered nci- one, and he robbed no one. I am guilty, and so are the others; but. not Martinez, who is unjustly judged. I murdered the Officer, for I killed bins after we took him and had tied him to a tree, and I ate suffering justly; but poor Martinez is undergoing this death for the crimes of us. Now and ever I will declare his innocence ;" and again he is vocated the name of the ALMIGHTY in attesting the truth of this statement of the innocence of Nat tines, hoping that some good person would let his friends in Cuba know that he was not guilty. J. M. de los Santos also confessed his guilt.; but strenuously asserted the innocence of Martinez. Martinez was a decent looking man; and of rather prepossessing appearance; he several times declared that he was innocent; and when the cap was drawn over his eyes he begged it-should be withdrawn, and as if fearing that death would prevent the ex' pression of his feelings, with rapid utterance and shivering, he exclaimed—" An innocent man dies for what he never did ; my last words, Oh, GOO r The drop then fell. Moialles also said he was innocent. Another said he was a thief and a murder er, but no pirate. ,—The.other culprits confessed their guilt, and acknowledged the justice of their sentence. Martinez died instantaneously, but several of the others Here much convulsed. One of them, a very old man, seemed to be long in pain, for his bands were clenched till the nails tattered the flesh. Just before the drop fell, the general trembling of all the prisoners, and their shull ejaculations to their Patron Saints, manifesteJ the horror_ ss ith which they anticipated the death to n hich they. were doomed. Previously to their execution, one of thete criminals stated there wet e several hundred pirates on the coast of Cuba, and this would always be the case while the merchants and storekeepers of tinstisland purchased from the pirates their plunder.; and varier* Authorities pet mitred, and secretly encouraged them in their nefarious acts. This was stated lit' the•piesedee of a Spanish Priest.  f   'NE