with five of the crew; Ruiz and the rest escaped to a village, some ways inland, and with the aid of a telescope it was perceived the negroes were rapidly gathering to renew the combat, urged on by Ruiz and the other pirates; after dislodging them from this village, negociations were entered into by the king of Cape Lopez, who surrendered Ruiz and several men to Captain Trotter.  They were carried in the brig Curlew to Fernando Po, and after an examination, were put in irons and conveyed to England, and there put on board the British gun-brig Savage, and arrived in the harbor of Salem on the 26th August, 1834.  Her commander, Lieut.  Loney, waited upon the authorities of Salem, and after the usual formalities, surrendered the prisoners into their hands—­stating that the British Government waived their right to try and punish the prisoners, in favor of the United States, against whom the principal offence had been committed.  The pirates were landed at Crowningshield wharf, and taken from thence in carriages to the Town hall; twelve of them, handcuffed in pairs, took their places at the bar.  They were all young and middle-aged, the oldest was not over forty.  Physiognomically, they were not uncommonly ill looking, in general, although there were exceptions, and they were all clean and wholesome in their appearance.  They were now removed to Boston and confined in prison, where one of them, named Manuel Delgarno cut his throat with a piece of glass, thus verifying the old proverb, that those born to be hung, will never be drown’d!

On the 11th of November, Don Pedro Gilbert, Captain, Don Bernardo de Soto, Mate, Francisco Ruiz, Carpenter, Nicola Costa, Cabin-boy, aged 15, Antonio Ferrer, Cook, and Manuel Boyga, Domingo de Guzman, an Indian, Juan Antonio Portana, Manuel Castillo, Angel Garcia, Jose Velasquez, and Juan Montenegro, alias Jose Basilio de Castro, were arraigned before the Circuit Court of the United States, charged with the crime of Piracy.  Joseph Perez appeared as State’s evidence, and two Portuguese sailors who were shipped on board the Panda at Prince’s Island, as witnesses.  After a jury was empannelled, Mr. Dunlap, the District Attorney, rose and said—­“This is a solemn, and also an unusual scene.  Here are twelve men, strangers to our country and to our language, indicted for a heinous offence, and now before you for life or death.  They are indicted for a daring crime, and a flagrant violation of the laws, not only of this, but of every other civilized people.”  He then gave an outline of the commission of the robbery of the Mexican.  Numerous witnesses were examined, amongst whom were the captain, mate, and several seamen of the Mexican, who recognized several of the pirates as being the individuals who maltreated them, and took the specie.  When Thomas Fuller, one of the crew of the Mexican was called upon to identify Ruiz, he went up to him and struck him a violent blow on the