The deceased, and the criminal were sailors who lodged at the house beforementioned; the latter, a Portuguese, who spoke little or no English, and therefore was tried by means of an interpreter. Whatever gave rise to this quarrel, whether a fightingbout, which happened the same Day between the prisoner and a Dutchman, whose part the deceased took, as the prisoner pleaded in his defence; or whether it was any other provocation, this fact was attended with circumstances which proved it a cruel and inhuman murder. These two having gone up to two seperate beds in the same room, between ten and eleven o'clock at night, were soon after heard by the landlord and other company, scolding and fighting overhead. They went up and found them entangled with each other in a fierce and obstinate combat, in the dark, on the bed of the deceased, whose shirt was stript off, the prisoner being uppermost, and the face of the deceased bloody. As soon as they were parted, with much difficulty; Carassa said, Father, it is not my fault; then rising from his bed, he cried, Lord, I am a dead man! whilst his bowels were all coming out on his left side - to the quantity of two handfuls. He said, the prisoner gave me a stab on purpose, on which the prisoner attempted to go away, but was prevented. Mr. Thompson, the surgeon who first came to see him in the morning, said also, that he is a dead man, that his bowels were cut, and he would not meddle with him. He was carried to the London-hospital the same morning, and being viewed and examined by another surgeon, Mr. Alder; the patient told him the wound was given wilfully, with a push, by a Portuguese who had been quarrelling with his friend, whose part he took. He died of that wound three quarters of an hour after; this surgeon supposed it to be done with a knife. This was confirmed, by the prisoner's words, to a witness who stopped him in attempting to escape, to whom he said, Me have done this; - with a knife - which lay by the bed, where it was found, being a long clasp knife, all bloody four or five inches deep.

Notwithstanding this clear, consistent and positive evidence against the prisoner, and hardy attempt was made to shield and rescue him from the mortal stroke of it, by one Emanuel Rotherek Corea< no role > , who representing himself to be a Portuguese priest, belonging to the ambassador of that nation, deposed, that as he attended the dying man to administer the sacrament to him, he exhorted him to speak the truth, and as he hoped for pardon of God, to pardon the prisoner, if he had offended him; to which the wounded man replied, That there was no offence to pardon the prisoner, for that he himself deserved ten thousand deaths, by being the aggressor in this quarrel; that he pulled the prisoner out of the bed by the legs, and struck him to make him fight with him.

But this effort was of so little weight in the scale, against the opposite united and supported testimonies of six or seven witnesses, that the jury quickly brought in the prisoner guilty, and he was immediately adjudged to be executed on the second day from thence, being Monday the 17th of January following.

As this prisoner did not agree with us in his religion, nor understand our language, he was not brought to chapel, nor could it answer any purpose for me to visit him in his cell; hearing also that no clerical person of his own persuasion had yet visited him, on Sunday at noon it was by me earnestly recommended to