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THE TRIAL OF PEDRO GIBERT, BERNARDO
DE SOTO, FRANCISCO RUIZ, NICOLA COS-
TA, ANTONIO FERRER, MANUEL BOY-
GA, DOMINGO DE GUZMAN, JUAN
ANTONIO PORTANA, MANUEL
CASTILLO, ANGEL GARCIA,

JOSE VELAZQUEZ, AND
JUAN MONTENEGRO,

FOR PIRACY, BOSTON,
MASSACHUSETTS

THE NARRATIVE.

In Angust, 1832, the Ameriean brig Mexican, which was
owned by one‘ of the leading merchants of Salem, Massachu-
setts, sailed from that place for Rio Janeiro, having on board
a valuable cargo and over twenty thousand dollara in specie.
About the same time, the ship Panda, with a Spanish captain
and crew, set sail from Havana on a slaving expedition. They
met in the South Atlantic, The Panda overhauled the Mex-
jean, fired, when within gunshot, and the Mexican hove to.
Then some of the crew of the Pands boarded the Mexican,
took from her all the money they could find, fastened the offi-
cers and sailors of the Mexican below, and set fire to her.

The pirates had neglected to fasten the cabin skylight, so
that the crew of the brig raised it, and when they saw that
the slaver was at a sufficient distance, they put the fire out
and returned home. The slaver proceeded to the coast of
Africa, and while there the officera of the British man-of-war
Curlew heard of the capture of the Mexican, and as the Pan-
da answered the description of the vessel that captured her,
its commander took all of her crew he could lay his hands on,
earried them to England, then brought them to Salem, where

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