Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

Kingston, Jam. April 7. We understand that a vessel, with several persons on board, left this port a few weeks since with the intention of causing an irruption in favor of the Colombians in the island of Cuba. Of the fate attending two of these individuals named Sanchez and Frasquitto Aguero, we have been informed, they were executed at Principe, in that island, on the 17th ult. It would appear they arrived there about fifteen days previous, and had remained concealed, until the imprudence of Sanchez led him to the house of his godfather (otherwise a stranger to him,) and to which they shewed the Proclamations of which they were the bearers, and advised him to collect whatever effects he could and quit the Island, as the Colombians were near, and would cut the throats of all the Royalists that fell into their power. The person so advised gave information to the Governor, and their retreat being discovered, a detachment of thirty men was dispatched after them, when they were secured and executed. Aguero, at the place of execution, behaved with peculiar firmness, and suffered without in the least compromising the cause he had advocated. Sanchez, on the contrary, exhibited every symptom of fear, communicated such circumstances as he had become acquainted with of the intended movements, and to which he added many exaggerations; in consequence of which four or five Spanish vessels of war had been ordered from Havana to cruize on the coast. Commodore Jolley, with a Colombian flying squadron was also looked for in that quarter. Our informant adds, that the greatest caution has been adopted throughout Cuba, and every exertion making for putting the Island in the best defencible state.

Cornwall Chronicle.