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 of a fair Character, was forc’d into their Service, and took the firt Opportunity to get from them, and therefore receiv’d a Pardon; but Walter Kennedy being a notorious Offender, was executed the 19th of July, 1721, at Execution Dock.

The ret of the Pyrates who were left in the Ship Rover, taid not long behind, for they went ahore to one of the Wet-India Ilands; what became of them afterwards, I can’t tell, but the Ship was found at Sea by a Sloop belonging to St. Chritophers, and carried into that Iland with only nine Negroes aboard.

Thus we ee what a diatrous Fate ever attends the Wicked, and how rarely they ecape the Punihment due to their Crimes, who, abandon’d to uch a profligate Life, rob, poil, and prey upon Mankind, contrary to the Light and Law of Nature, as well as the Law of God. It might have been hoped, that the Examples of thee Deaths, would have been as Marks to the Remainder of this Gang, how to hun the Rocks their Companions had plit on; that they would have urrendered to Mercy, or divided themelves, for ever from uch Puruits, as in the End they might be ure would ubject them to the ame Law and Punihment, which they mut be concious they now equally deerved; impending Law, which never let them leep well, unles when drunk. But all the Ue that was made of it here, was to commend the Jutice of the Court, that condemn’d (they aid)

But to go back to Roberts, whom we left on the Coat of Caiana, in a grievous Paion at what Kennedy and the Crew had done; and who was now projecting new Adventures with his mall Company in the Sloop; but finding hitherto they had been but as a Rope of Sand, they formed a Set of Articles, to be igned and worn to, for the better Rh