not be passed upon him, replied he had nothing further than he had communicated to Mr. Gray.  Given under our hands and seals at Jerusalem, this 5th day of November, 1831. 
                                            Jeremiah Cobb, [Seal.]
                                            Thomas Pretlow, [Seal.]
                                            James W. Parker, [Seal.]
                                            Carr Bowers, [Seal.]
                                            Samuel B. Hines, [Seal.]
                                            Orris A. Browne, [Seal.]

State of Virginia, Southampton County, to wit: 

I, James Rochelle, Clerk of the County Court of Southampton in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify, that Jeremiah Cobb, Thomas Pretlow, James W. Parker, Carr Bowers, Samuel B. Hines, and Orris A. Browne, esqr’s are acting Justices of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, and were members of the Court which convened at Jerusalem, on Saturday the 5th day of November, 1831, for the trial of Nat alias Nat Turner, a negro slave, late the property of Putnam Moore, deceased, who was tried and convicted, as an insurgent in the late insurrection in the county of Southampton aforesaid, and that full faith and credit are due, and ought to be given to their acts as Justices of the peace aforesaid. 
                          In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my
                                 hand and caused the seal of the Court
                   [Seal.] aforesaid, to be affixed this 5th day of
          
                                             November, 1831. 
                                           James Rochelle, C.S.C.C.

CONFESSION.

Agreeable to his own appointment, on the evening he was committed to prison, with permission of the jailer, I visited NAT on Tuesday the 1st November, when, without being questioned at all, he commenced his narrative in the following words:—­

Sir,—­You have asked me to give a history of the motives which induced me to undertake the late insurrection, as you call it—­To do so I must go back to the days of my infancy, and even before I was born.  I was thirty-one years of age the 2d of October last, and born the property of Benj.  Turner, of this county.  In my childhood a circumstance occurred which made an indelible impression on my mind, and laid the ground work of that enthusiasm, which has terminated so fatally to many, both white and black, and for which I am about to atone at the gallows.  It is here necessary to relate this circumstance—­trifling as it may seem, it was the commencement of that belief which has grown with time, and even now, sir, in this dungeon, helpless and forsaken as I am, I cannot divest myself of.