Richmond Enquirer

New York, November 18.—The Circuit Court of the United States adjourned yesterday the 17th inst. On Tuesday eight slaves were tried for having murdered the Captain and Mate of the schooner Decatur. One of them only was convicted, named William Hill; he was yesterday sentenced to be executed on the 18th of next December.—The circumstances attending this affair were as follows: In the month of April last, 83 slaves were shipped from Baltimore for New Orleans on board of the schr Decatur, Galloway, master, to be sold at New Orleans. On the passage the slaves threw the Capt. and Mate overboard and then appointed one of the crew to act as Capt. and another as Mate, and directed them to make for St. Domingo. These seamen, unable to navigate the schooner, were compelled to make a signal of distress, when the ship Constellation hove in sight; they were boarded by a boat from that ship. The Constellation took out of the schooner the women and children slaves, and two of the seamen; the other two seamen remained in the schooner with the slaves, expecting that the Constellation would keep company with them, but in the night they parted. The schooner was next day overhauled by the brig Hunt, which took 14 of the slaves and brought them in here.