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38 who may erve as ad Examples of the little Effect Mercy has upon Men once abandoned to an evil Coure of Life.

Leat I be thought evere in my Animadverions upon the Spanih Proceedings in the Wet-Indies, in repect to their Dealings with us; I hall mention an Intance or two, wherein I’ll be as concie as poible, and then trancribe ome original Letters from the Governor of Jamaica, and an Officer of a Man of War, to the Alcaldees of Trinidado, on the Iland of Cuba, with their Anwers, tranlated into Englih, and then proceed to the particular Hitories of the Pyrates and their Crews, that have made mot Noie in the World in our own Times.

About March 1722, one of our Men of War trading upon the Coat, viz. the Greyhound Galley, Captain Walron, the aid Captain invited ome of the Merchants to Dinner, who with their Attendants and Friends came on Board to the Number of 16 or 18 in all; and having concerted Meaures, about ix or eight dined in the Cabin, and the ret were waiting on the Deck. While the Captain and his Guets were at Dinner, the Boatwain Pipes for the Ship’s Company to dine; accordingly the Men take their Platters, receive their Proviions, and down they go between Decks, leaving only 4 or 5 Hands beides the Spaniards, above, who were immediately dipatched by them, and the Hatches laid on the ret; thoe in the Cabin were as ready as their Companions, for they pulled out their Pitols and hot the Captain, Surgeon and another dead, and grievouly wounded the Lieutenant; but he getting out of the Window upon a Side-Ladder, thereby aved his Life, and o they made themelves Maters of the Ship in an Intant: But by accidental good Fortune, he was recovered before he was carry’d off; for Captain Walron having mann’d a Sloop with 30 Hands out of his Ship’s Company, had ent her