o'clock; this was on Thursday, the 14th of March. A paper was handed to Miss Goold for her inspection, purporting to have been written in her hand, by desire of James Leahy, the prisoner; it was, substantially, to certify, that Miss Goold had, of her own free will and consent, stopped at Leahy's house; Miss Goold said, the document was written by her, but it was under the influence of fear, and with the hope of being restored to her family; old David Leahy, James Leahy, and Browne, were present, when she wrote the certificate; she was three weeks altogether with Browne; she was also on the bare mountain; Daniel Riedy came to the cabin to her; Browne was not with her; she was taken by Riedy out to the mountain; the reason she was taken out was, that the army was about the place and near her; Riedy fired after the soldiers; Riedy delayed her on the mountain, and brought her back to the cabin, where Browne was before her; she was on the mountain half an hour; she was taken to another man's cabin, belonging to one Leahy; Browne remained with her; young David Leahy and another went with her to the cabin; she was released on Sunday, the 24th of March; on many occasions, she saw with these men guns and pistols; none of those in the dock were so armed, except Riedy, who fired a pistol; she was finally left on the side of a road, in a cabin; it was the army, who at length released her; when she was released, none of the party were along with her at the time. Cross-examined by Mr. O'Connell. She was much frightened, no doubt, during this transaction. The Leahys forced her to say "with her consent," in the paper she signed; they often made her say so to different people, that it was with her will she acted; she was brought by force to Leahy's house: she would not have remained a minute with her consent in any of the places; she would have escaped, if she could, from the ruffian Browne, from any of the houses; Browne had since fled; the time she was out with Riedy on the mountain, it was to avoid, the pursuit of the army; Browne's father's house was in the county of Cork. Wm. Connell. Knows Maurice Leahy, one of the prisoners; was at his house in March last in this county; saw Miss Goold there about three o'clock in the afternoon; heard from the family the preceding evening, that she was expected; James and David Leahy, the other two prisoners, came in shortly after her: on her arrival she was welcomed as "Miss Goold ;" she cried and wept bitterly; witness told Maurice Leahy, the prisoner, it would be better to let him call the army, and restore the girl to her friends; it would be an act of honour. Maurice Leahy said to the witness-" Mind your own business: if you wish to stop here, do so as long as you like ; but don't talk so much;" this same evening Maurice Leahy prepared his own horse, got a pillion, borrowed a horse for the use of Browne and Miss Goold; on leaving the house, witness called Maurice Leahy, and told Browne to use Miss Goold tenderly, it would be the most judicious and likely way to gain her affections; Browne said, the more hardships she endured the sooner would she comply; they said, they were going to one Lane's with Miss Goold. This was the substantial direct testimony given by this witness. He underwent a long cross-examination by Mr. Jackson, in which various leading features of his life, reflecting on his character, were exhibited before him to his great amazement, and the infinite amusement of the Court, but he remained unshaken in his testimony. Wm. Allen is a magistrate of the county Cork, and went many nights in search for Miss Goold. He at length found her near Abbeyfeal, in a most pitiable and feeble condition, unable to walk, sit, or stand; so much so, that he was 17 hours conveying her thirteen miles; he procured a cart for her conveyance, and also had her brought part of the way on litter on men's shoulders; he went to Maurice Leahy's, and saw the last witness, Wm. Connell, there. man. a Cross-examined by Mr. Free -Thinks Maurice Leahy, in the dock, was the cause of Miss Goold's being found, as it was through him the information came; the Leahys are of the first class of farmers in that part of the country. Thomas P. Vokes knows old David Leahy went to his house at Tournavilla; it is a subdenomination of Clanduff in this county; placed sentinels on the different houses; said he wanted them as witnesses; was shown the bedroom, in which Miss Goold was violated; old David handed him the paper written by Miss Goold, his sons were present; said, he would have the paper appear in evidence to benefit all parties. For the defence, witnesses were called, who deposed that they knew the Leahys to be respectable, cor rect characters; that great terror prevailed in the mountains; and that any one, who did not obey the insurgents, was in imminent danger. The learned judge commented upon the evidence to the Jury; who, having retired for about ten minutes, returned a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners. -- LONGEVITY. There is now living at Felicianowo, in Poland, a man named Jabkowski, who is 138 years of age. It was not till his 100th year, that he determined to marry; and he then espoused a widow aged 50, with whom he is living contented and happy. FATAL DUEL IN FRANCE.-A letter in the Journal des Debats, dated Bagnires, July 29, states as follows:-"A deplorable event has just taken place in this town. The unfortunate young Pinac was interred this day, having been killed in a duel with an Englishman. The affair did not arise from any personal quarrel. The Englishman, being in the reading-room of Frescati, happened to write on the margin of a pamphlet respecting the battle of Toulouse, that every thing in it was false; that lord Wellington had gained a complete victory; and that the French army was indebted to his generosity for not having been put to the sword.' M. Pinac, a young officer, not in actual service, who was first made acquainted with this circumstance, called on him to account for having written these words. The Authorities did all they could to prevent the duel; but their precautions proved useless: and Pin.c, having received a ball in his belly, died some hours afterwards." NEGRO PLOT. Charlestown was alarmed by the discovery of a negro plot, for which many negroes were executed in the course of the month. Their plan appears to have been well digested. They intended to have provided themselves with passes, so as to deceive the guard, and place themselves at certain parts of the city; then a party was to secure the guard at the guard-house, and an indiscriminate massacre was to commence of all whites who appeared in the streets. The scheme had been in agitation for a considerable length of time. They formed themselves into a society, and held meetings at a farm which they could approach by water, to avoid being stopped by any patrols. Religion and superstition were used by the more cunning to delude the credulous Africans into the plot. Gullah Jack was considered invincible; he could not be hurt nor killed by any means whatever; but a blow from him would do instant execution. At one of these meetings they had a fowl dressed and put on a table, over which Gullah Jack performed some ceremony of witchcraft; and when he had done, a scramble was made for the fowl, every one trying to get a piece; then said Jack, "so do we pull the Buckra to pieces." Jack was hanged, and satisfied his companions that he could be killed; he showed great fears of death under the gallows. Most of the ringleaders were the rulers or class-leaders in what is called the African Society, and were considered faithful honest fellows. Indeed, many of the owners would not believe, until the fellows confessed, that they were concerned. The first object was, to kill their masters. But ISLE OF MAN.-Disputes have recently arisen between the duke of Athol, and the House of Keys (or parliament of the Isle of Man), which have excited a strong interest in the island. Some misunderstanding appears to have existed for a length of time between the governor and the legislative body, occasioned, apparently, by a suspicion on the part of the latter, that his grace was assuming a greater share of authority than he was by law entitled to. an open breach was first manifested at the meeting of the Keys on the Tynwald-hill on the 6th of July, when it was proposed to appoint commissioners for superintending the repairs of the highways in the island. The duke of Athol wished to have a new set of commissioners appointed, and, amongst them, the bishop and the water-bailiff; the House of Keys desired the re-appointment of the commissioners who had just gone out of office, and they pertinaciously objected against the bishop or any customhouse officer as commissioners. Neither party would concur in the nomination of the other; and after two ineffectual meetings, his Grace adjourned the Keys until the 10th of October, threatening to represent their conduct to the British government. There was some smart personal altercation between his Grace and the Keys. 31. -Salvador Gabarda, one of the guards who assassinated lieut.colonel Landaburu, was executed at Madrid, at noon, in the presence of the whole garrison under arms, and of the provisional battalion composed of the guards who remained faithful to the constitution. He was first publicly degraded, then strangled according to the Spanish custom on a stool fixed on the scaffold, and by means of a screw which produces instantaneous death. His right hand was afterwards cut off, pursuant to the terms of his sentence. He made an attempt to address the people, but having been desired to desist, he obeyed, and sat down of his own accord on the fatal stool. Betsey, 148 tons, four guns, twentyfive men, 218 slaves; French brigantine L'Ursule, 100 tons, four guns, twenty-seven men, 247 slaves; Spanish schooner Yeanam, 306 tons, ten guns, fifty-five men, 380 slaves; Spanish schooner Becua, 130 tons, nine guns, forty-five men, 300 slaves; and another brig, which took part in the acSLAVE TRADE. This morning tion, but had no cargo. The Portsmouth was surprised by the state of the slaves on board these now novel circumstance of the vessels it is impossible to describe: arrival of a French brig, of 240 some were linked in shackles by tons, the Vigilante, as a prize, she the leg, in pairs; some of them had been captured, with several were bound with cords; and many others, in the act of slave-trading, of them had their arms so lacerated, on the 15th of April last, in the that the flesh was completely eaten river Bonny, by the boats of his through! In one of the captured Majesty's ships Iphigenia and vessels, which the traders, on the Myrmidon, manned with about attack being made, deserted, a 150 seamen, and commanded by lighted match had been placed in lieut. G. Wm. St. John Mildmay, the magazine, in which were after a most severe contest, in several barrels of gunpowder, in which two seamen were killed, the hope, no doubt, that as soon and seven were wounded. This as our sailors had boarded, the vessel, with six others, formed a vessel would blow up with them little slave-trading squadron, which and the 300 slaves who were was discovered, by the boats chained together in the hold. Providespatched by sir R. Mends to re- dentially, one of the men discoverconnoitre the river Bonny, moored ed the match, put his hat under it, across the stream of the river, with and carried it safely on deck. On springs on their cables, all armed, the passage of the prizes from the with apparently about 400 men on Bonny river to Sierra Leone, the board, and perfectly prepared to schooner Yeanam (drawing 17 feet resist the approach of boarders. water), with 500 slaves on board, Lieut. Mildmay pushed on with and 23 seamen, upset in a tornado, his boats, and, as he got within and all in her perished, excepting range, opened a heavy fire of eight seamen, who were picked up cannister grape shot, and musk- five days afterward by the Myretry; nothing could withstand the midon, in a state of derangement, coolness and undaunted courage, from want of food. Messrs. Batty of our seamen, and all the vessels and Doughty, midshipmen, perished were soon in their possession: in her. The number of slaves their defenders, on being boarded, liberated by the capture of these either ran below, or jumped over- vessels was 1,876, about 200 of board. The vessels proved to be whom died on the passage to as follows:-French brig Vigilante, Sierra Leone; the others (except240 tons, four guns, thirty men, ing those lost in the schooner) 343 slaves; French brig Petite were landed at that place. PIRACY. The following reports, communicated to Lloyd's by their agents at the Havannah, are a specimen of the extent to which piracy is now carried in that quarter of the world. Brig Alpha, Samuel Brooks Master, from Turks Island. On the 29th of May, 1822, at 1 P. M., in latitude 22. 50 north, longitude 78. 50 west, three schooners hove in sight. At 1. 30. observed their colours to be blue white blue; at 2 they were within gun shot; each fired gun to leeward, and immediately the headmost one, finding that the brig did not heave to, fired a shot which fell close to her; we then shortened sail and hove to; each of the pirates manned their boats with six and eight men each, and came on board, hauled down the colours, and made sail on the ship, the three schooners in company, with their guns pointed at the brig, and their crews at quarters; they immediately put the whole crew with the captain, down the forecastle, and secured the hatch (excepting the boy, whom they questioned about the captain's money); they then ordered the crew on deck, and commenced plundering. They ordered the They ordered the captain into the cabin, and demanded his watch and the keys of the trunks, took out all his money (about 200 dollars), and then took the trunks with all the captain's clothes, books, instruments, &c. leaving him only one shirt and a pair of trowsers. They treated the mate and the rest of the men in the same manner, at the same time beating them and the captain with their swords, and wounding the captain in several places. They took all the moveable articles from the cabin, as bread and small stores; took off the hatchways, carried away the warps, and several new small sails; cut away the main-top stay-sail and running rigging, with cordage, canvass, &c., the boats going to the schooners, and returning occasionally. At 5. 30. P. M. they had taken every article they could find, including a puncheon of rum, and went off. They afterwards returned, and demanded more money. Six of them surrounded the captain on the quarter deck, four with swords and pistols, and one with a handspike; there they commenced beating and cutting him until he, unable to stand, fell on the deck. They then put a rope round his neck, and hoisted him up to the peak three several times, letting him down by the run each time, and left him for dead. They next took the mate from the helm, and treated him in the same way, demanding more money; but finding that there was no more, they left the vessel, taking with them, by force, the carpenter with his tools, John Nelson, a native of Sweden; Isaac Hutson, a seaman; and William Hideman, the boy, both English. Two of these schooners were from 70 to 80 tons burthen, with 50 or 60 men, and mounted three large guns; the third was smaller, with two guns, and about 20 or |