The confession of Joseph Baker : a Canadian by birth, who, for murder & piracy committed on the high seas, on board the schooner Eliza, Captain Wm. Wheland, in a voyage from Philadelphia bound to St. Thomas, was tried on the 25th of April, 1800, before the Hon. Samuel Chase and Richard Peters, judges of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Pennsylvania, and now under sentence of death, in the solitary cells of the penitentiary house of the city and county of Philadelphia.