TRIAL OF THE PIRATEs The trial of the pirates Couro, Pepe, and Felix Barbeito, concerned in the murders on board of the brig Crawford, commenced at Richmond, on the 16th, and terminated on the evening of the 19th inst. before the circuit court of the United States,...

TRIAL OF THE PIRATEs The trial of the pirates Couro, Pepe, and Felix Barbeito, concerned in the murders on board of the brig Crawford, commenced at Richmond, on the 16th, and terminated on the evening of the 19th inst. before the circuit court of the United States, chief justice Marshall presiding. The testimony of the mate, Mr Dobson, and the French passenger, Mr Ginhouilac, exhibits a detail of the most disgusting butchery that is to be found in the annals of crime. The master spirit was Tardy, one of the greatest villians that ever disgraced humanity, and his accomplices appear to have been long used to the trade of blood. After the accomplishment of their fiend-like purposes they shouted, huzzaed and exulted with every demonstration of joy, cooly examined the stabs given their victims, and remarked that one had received "the finest they had ever seen in all their lives, it had so completely severed the heart." The jury to whom their case was submitted returned a verdict of guilty, after having retired for a few minutes. On the 20th sentence of death was passed on the prisoners, and the 17th of August is appointed for their execution. On the day on which they received sentence, Jose Hilario Casares, and Felix Barbeito, presented papers to the court requesting that their case night be postponed to give them an opportunity of procuring evidence of their character &c. to which the judge replied, that it was his duty to execute the laws; and that they did not permit him to comply with the request leade to him -- that it would be happy for the prisoners, if their consciences were as much at peace as they professed -- but that all that was left to him, was to discharge the duty imposed upon him.

"Two of the pirates represent themselves as natives of the province of Gallacia, in old Spain, viz. Felix Barbeito and Couro, alias Jose Morando. Felix Barbeito is the eldest of the three and their superior in rank, intelligence, and address, as much as in age. The others defer to him, and style him with much respect don Felix. His connexions in Cuba are said to be respectable. He is rather below the common stature. his features good. nose slightly aqueline, and of an intelligent, we should not say, bad countenance. He was probably in full understanding with Tardy, and hired the other two to assist in the exeeution of their hellish plot. He has evinced more sensibility during the trial than the others. Couro appears about 30 years of age, of large, heavy, and stupid features, keeping his mouth constantly half open, which gives an expression almost idiotic to his countenance. -- But he is said, nevertheless, to be the gayest spirit of the three. Pepe, alias Jose Hilario Casaris, is a native of Cuba -- of the middle height, well and even symmetrically formed, handsome features, and of a bold and even undaunted aspect. He seems to be, and undoubtedly is, a man to perform whatever his employer would command, whatever danger he might encounter and blood wade through. They are all swarthy, showing the Moorish blood, and whiskered -- they are even thought in challenging jurors, to have had respect to whiskers." Since their conviction the pirates have acknowledged the justice of their sentence, and say that if they had had their deserts they would have been hung long ago.