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Rh her to Windward ome Days before, alo for Trade, which the Spaniards knew very well; and jut as the Action was over they aw this Sloop coming down, before the Wind, towards their Ship; upon which the Spaniards took about 10000 l. in Specie, as I am informed, quitted the Ship, and went off in their Launch unmoleted.

About the ame Time, a Guard le Coat, of Porto Rico, commanded by one Matthew Luke, an Italian, took four Englih Veels, and murthered all the Crews: He was taken by the Lanceton Man of War, in May 1722, and brought to Jamaica, were they were all but even deervedly hanged. It is likely the Man of War might not have meddled with her, but that he blindly laid the Lanceton on Board, thinking he had been a Merchant Ship, who thereupon catched a Tartar. Afterwards in rummaging there was found a Cartridge of Powder made up with a Piece of an Englih Journal, belonging, I believe, to the Crean Snow; and upon Examination, at lat, it was dicovered that they had taken this Veel and murthered the Crew; and one of the Spaniards, when he came to die, confeed that he had killed twenty Englih Men with his own Hands.

S. Jago de la Vega, Febr. 20.
Gentlemen,

HE frequent Depredations, Robberies, and other Acts of Hotility, which have been committed on the King my Royal Mater’s Subjects, by a Parcel of Banditti, who pretend to Rh