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 H E very great Veneration I have 
 for all crowned Heads, will not al¬ 
 low me to imagine, that his Catho- 
 lick Majelty has ever had an im¬ 
 partial State of Affairs, with regard 
 to America, laid before him •, and that 
 he has only been made acquainted with the Com¬ 
 plaints of his own Subjects, and their Sufferings, 
 by the Englijh : Thele, no doubt, exaggerated 
 and reprefented in the blacked Colours v (excepting 
 luch Complaints as have been made, by the Briti/b 
 Minifter, who redded at the Court of Madrid ; 
 which, we may realonably believe, were as induf- 
 trioufly endeavoured to be rendered groundlefs and 
 trifling, as thole of the Spaniards heinous and in¬ 
 tolerable. ) Can any one believe that the King of 
 Spain , if the Cotejo was publifhcd by his Authority, 
 which I can never think, was truly informed ot the 
 Depredations and Cruelties exerciled by hisSubje&s 
 
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upon our Coafts, ard on fuchof our unhappy Coun¬ 
 trymen, ,who had the 1 Misfortune to fall into the 
 Hands of the American Spaniards ? No ; I look 
 upon this, not only improbable, but even itnpof- 
 fible ; for as Kings are, on Earth, the Fountains 
 of Honour arid Juftrce, his Catiioiick Majefty, 
 'had he had an impartial Account of the tyrannical, 
 unjuftifiabie, nay unchriftian-Iike Treatment, the 
 ijh have experienced ; he would have prevent- 
 the Extremities of a War, which his Britan- 
 
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 nick Majefty has been compelled to declare 3 after 
 having, with more than common Lenity, and Pa- 
 ttence, endeavoured, by fair Means, to have an End 
 put to the In fill ts and Robberies, which the Nation, 
 tri i eriera!, and our Merchants, in particular, daily 
 ieKef’d by the Spa)tifh Rovers in America. Rut, 
 
 1 his is not my only Realon for doubting his 
 Oihofick Majefty authorizing the Publication of 
 that Label •, there are others altogether as co¬ 
 gent •, the indecent manner in which the King of 
 Great Britain is treated 3 more like a King of 
 Sparta- by a Perfian Monarch, than like a Sove¬ 
 reign, who lias all the Power a juft Prince cou’d or 
 wou’ddefire ; the Contempt with which the Nation 
 ih general is mention’d, and the angry low Epithets 
 thy Writer employs, are no way correipondent 
 with the Magnanimity of a great King : for inch 
 have ever Ipoken, for their own Sakes, of their 
 Equals, with all pollible Rcfpedt for that fupreme 
 Dignity, even flagrante Bello. We have a noble 
 Example of a great and princely Spirit ; of the 
 Lffgitelt Rdpebf, certainly due to a crown’d Head, 
 ih the Behaviour of the brave and generous Son of 
 °m\: Etlutard tire Third ; who being r&aViced to fit 
 
 down ar Supper with John King of France, then his 
 actual Prifoner, anfver’d •, that it was his Duty to 
 •• it upon his Majefty 3 to •which, all hajfbture Be¬ 
 
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haviour, towards the unfortunate Monarch was 
 every way agreeable. When his Father, the King 
 of England, was told with what RefpeCt and Dif- 
 tance he carried himfelf to his royal Prifoner, he 
 publicldy declared, that the Account gave him 
 greater Satisfaction, than had the News of his Son’s 
 Victory. It is thus, that Princes think and act » 
 and the King of Spain , Grandfon not only to one 
 of the greateft Monarchs Hillory can produce, 
 fince the Time of his glorious Anceflor Henry the 
 Fourth ; but alfo the completed Gentleman ; and 
 bred in his, the politeft Court in Cbrijlcudom, 
 could not, nay, ’tis incredible, that lie fhou’d, 
 iufier fuch a low Libel to appear with the Support 
 of his Authority. Wherefore, as I take that Piece 
 to have dropp’d from the Pen of one, -whole Zeal 
 is without Knowledge , and whofe Warmth has hur¬ 
 ried him beyond the Bounds of not only the KefpeCt 
 due to Kings, and collective Bodies of People •, but 
 even of thole of, that good Manners and Decency, 
 which becomes a Gentleman, I fhall uie Ids Cere¬ 
 mony and Precaution in the following Companion, 
 than I fhou’d do, were 1, in Vindication of my 
 Country, to examine a royid Manifello. 
 
 After his Exordium, which is not of the politeft, 
 the Author of the Cotejo teils us, that the firft Mo¬ 
 tive for the King of Great Britain’s declaring War 
 is reduced to one genera) Suppofkion, without the 
 Support of any FaCts alleged. Though I don’t 
 propofe to anfwer this Writer, as his not my Pro¬ 
 vince, yet I beg Leave, en paffant, to a lie whe¬ 
 ther it was neceflary, in Rea Ions aijedgeg .for de¬ 
 claring War, to enter into particular F&Cts, and 
 make a Volume of what had often, and vainly been 
 reprefented by his Britannkk Majelly’s MipjUer at 
 Madrid ? B-jc does not mis Author himfiflfj lay to 
 the Cliarge of the Enghji a mail inhunua Action ; 
 
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a Cruelty vrtiirh I hope and believe none of my 
 Countrymen could be guilty of, without telling us, 
 who is the Per Ion taxed with this fhocking Barba- 
 rityt^goinitllgnplace where, the Time when, the 
 Perions on whom, or the V’Hfc i on board of which 
 it was exercifed ? Surely, if the Charge is juft, fie 
 could not be ignorant of all, or at Jeaft tome of 
 rbefe Circum fiances I but the Spanrjh Writer is 
 filent on every one ofthefe Particulars. He avers, 
 and he thinks Ins Word fufficient, that an Englijh 
 Captain cut off the Ears and Nofe of a Spaniard of 
 dome Note, and made him eat them. We muff 
 depend hereupon the Writer’s Veracity ; yet this 
 Piece is an Appeal to all Europe, in which we 
 might exprit every Imputation lupported in the 
 lirongeft and cleared: Manner, without leaving the 
 leaf! room for Doubt. In the Fails, with which I 
 fhall change the Spaniards , none of the Circum- 
 itances, wanting to fupport the Inliance he has 
 brought of E'gdjh Ciudty, fhall be omitted ; and 
 let five World juc.gfc wnich of the two Nations has 
 
 behaved with the greatelt Inhumanity-* los 
 
 b'uer.os Catollcos y ChriftiaHcs Viejos Efpannoles , or 
 ■fy^'P^erWt jJ&cge's lngbjes.- ->ni o? aA .omol 
 ' Tile SpnnWj Write? nas been more particular, 
 withRepaid to the Englijh going upon the Wreck 
 of the Gtilkons, than he was in the foregoing 
 Charge, for which we have only an ipfe dixit. Here 
 indeed, the Dates of the Years, the Vcllels and 
 Names of the Commanders are let down. From 
 his Cate in relating ail thefe Circumftar.ces, he 
 oives eve:y thinking Man lufiicient Ground to iul- 
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pedt the -Truth -of that barbarous,. A^ein^i. with 
 which he taxes an Englijh Captarin. l --,I(i-rAnfwer to 
 this Charge of Robbery and Murder* I fliali «nly 
 iky, that the People; of Flardda- do jnatiiirv,general 
 acknowledge the Sovereignty of the Kmgof ; 
 and the Author has not fhewn, that; the GiaUootis, 
 hi Queftion, were wreck’d on luch Parti of.the 
 Coait of Florida as was fubmitred tos,h 13 Dominion. 
 Beiides, the EngliJJj were not the only . People who 
 went upon thole Wrecks; the French fent feveral 
 Vcflels thither, at the fame Time, to fiih/on the 
 fame Wreck : Whence we may conclude,/that)the 
 Treafure funk was effeem’d the Property,of fuch 
 as would be at the Trouble and Expence to recover 
 it from the Sea, of whatever Nation, and no longer 
 that of the Spaniards , to whom it was loft. But if 
 I have been rightly inform’d, the Fadt is not fairly 
 ftated in the Cotcjo ; as thefe Ships were loft upon 
 the Banks of the Bahama Iflands, which are under 
 the Englijh Dominion ; and if fo, (t!tough I do 
 not infill that my Information is authentick) as 
 Lords of a Mannor have, we had a juft Right to 
 fifh for the Treafure, and to defend that Right by 
 Force. As to the making Prize of two VefTels 
 laden with Cochineal, is V. there might be Circum- 
 ftances to juftify the Action : But if it was a Vio¬ 
 lence, why did not the Spaniards complain of it as 
 fuch ? Tney had good Kealon to expedt Juftice, as 
 -will appear by the following Relation. 
 
 In the Year 1729 his Majefty’s Ship the Durjky 
 Galley, commanded by Captain Forrejler, ftatioo’d 
 at Jamaica, was chafed and boarded, under hlack 
 Colours, by a Spanijh Veflel ; but taken by the 
 Englijh Man of War,- and carried into Jamaica ; 
 from whence, after a formal Trial fhe wasdifmifs’d, 
 with her Crew, and fair back to Cuba under Cdnvov 
 of the Trial, a Sloop of War. Can jjic S^Jpua);'^ 
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 cite me one Aftion of theirs, of equal Lenity ? 
 Might not the Englifh , or any other Nation have 
 juftify’d the Execution of thefe Spaniards, as Py- 
 rates; they having committed an Ad of Hoftilit'y 
 in Time of Peace, under Colours which are the 
 diftinguifhing Mark of Pyrates ? Was not this 
 Attack made upon the King’s Ship an Infult upon 
 the Enghjh Flig ? Whether the difmifling them, 1 
 with Impunity, is not fufficient to clear the Englifb 
 from that Cruelty, which he would infinuate is the 
 Charadterillick of our Nation ? And whether this 
 fingle Adion may not convince every impartial 
 Man, that the Writer unjuftly taxes us with the 
 Murder of forty-three Men in cold Blood 3 for if 
 they were hanged by -an unheard of Sentence, by 
 which, as his Sequel (hews he means, a cruel and 
 an unjuft Sentence, what is it but a cool and a deli¬ 
 berate Murder of thefe poor innocent Spaniards ? 
 This Writer, whatever Epithet he may give to the 
 Sentence, by which they were condemned 'to be 
 hanged, admits that they were brought to a Trial, 
 ior they cou’d not otherwile receive Sentence, and 
 that they had a fair 'Trial, what I have above re¬ 
 lated will induce every unbyafs’d Perfon to believe 
 without Helitation. 
 
 The Englifb are taxed witii endeavouring to 
 fbirit up the Negroes or the Havannah to a Rebel¬ 
 lion, with a Promife of Liberty if they would 
 tmnimoufly rife •, cut the Throats of the Inhabi¬ 
 tants, and plunder the 'Town. A DeOgn of fo 
 flagitious a Nature, fays this Writer, that wert it 
 not notorious, and fupported by Witneffes, wou’d 
 fiercely be thought probable. But what Method 
 was taken by thefe bloody-minded Englif to per¬ 
 petrate fo heinous an Aftion ? "Why one of their 
 Countrymen furrepti.ionfly got into the Havannah, 
 with ‘this infamous Intention, in an Alficrdo Ships, 
 
Who was this Englijhman ? Had he no Name ? 
 When was this wicked Defign difcovered ? Who 
 were the Witneffes ? And how comes it that a Fadt 
 fo notorious fhould never be brought to light before 
 the publifhing of the Colejo ? Thefe are Queftions 
 that rhe Author might have forefcen wou’d be put 
 to him, and therefore ought to have prevented 
 them by inferring the Particulars when he charg’d 
 us with the criminal Defign. Muft we intirely rely 
 on this Writer’s Veracity in every Thing he thinks 
 proper to afTert ? It is a Rule among Fencers, that 
 they fhould never lay themfelves open when they make 
 a Thruft at their Antagonift; the fame Rule ought 
 to be obferved by a polemical Writer, never to 
 impute to any Adversary what expofes him to Re¬ 
 crimination. It is injudicious to accufe others of 
 what we have ourfelves been guilty •, or to inveigh 
 againft the Examples which we have fet, if copied 
 by others. Has not the Governor of St. Augujkine 
 endeavour’d, by Proclamation, to caufe a Rebellion 
 among our Servants and Slaves on the Continent, 
 by a Promife of Liberty and Settlement ? Is it not 
 notorious that the Spaniards have long fupported 
 our run-away Negroes , in the blue Mountains of 
 Jamaica , and encourag’d them to plunder the Plan- 
 rations, and cut the Throats of their Mafters, as 
 they often done ? That the Spaniards have been 
 guilty, not of a Defign to perpetrate a Crime fo 
 black, but of actually putting it in Execution, and 
 (Continuing the inhuman Adtion ; of which a fair 
 and generous Enemy would not admit the Thought, 
 as We may be convinc’d by the Romans Behaviour to¬ 
 wards Pyrrhus. I fhall bring for Proof, the admit¬ 
 ting feveral of thefe Rebel Negroes ro fertlerin their 
 Colonies, elpecially at Trinidado, where there are 
 fome married to white Women; andnagain; the 
 taking Spanijb Arms, as Machelas , made •and ufed 
 
by the Spanijh Americans only, upon fome of thefe 
 Rebels,- who have fallen into the Hands of the 
 Parties lent out to fupprefs them. Hence it is 
 vilible, that of all People, a Spaniard ought not to 
 call the Defign charg’d on us, fcarce probable; as 
 they are but too juftly ftigmatized with the Cha- 
 radfer of being the moft cruel Nation in Chriften- 
 dom : which is confirm’d by the Account given us 
 of their Barbarity towards the poor ignorant Indians, 
 by an Author of their own -, who fays Arithmetic^ 
 cannot reckon up the Number's that they put to the 
 moft torturing Deaths. 
 
 No Doubt the fame Pretence, Religion ; and the 
 fame Caule, Hope of Gain; falve their Conferences, 
 and juft if y the Depredations and Cruelties our Coun¬ 
 trymen have fo often experienc’d : of which 1 fhall 
 relate fome Fadts, that I defy them to deny, if 
 they are not as great Strangers to Truth, as they 
 have manifeftly made appear they are to Humanity; 
 and theie Fadts, of fo unprecedented a Nature, that, 
 to life the Words of the Writer of the Colejo, they 
 fir ike the Mind with Horror, and need no Exaggera¬ 
 tion to warm our Refentment, as they fhall be well 
 fupported, and no room left for Doubt or Cavil; 
 in which Point that Writer and 1 differ. 
 
 This Author of the Coteje taxes our Nation with 
 felling, at different Times, and in different Places, 
 the SpaniJfj Subjedfs into Slavery ; and brings one 
 Inffarice, of eight Spaniards, whom the Englijh , in 
 the Year 1725, had fold at the Hand of Maderas. 
 
 I muft again beg leave to borrow his Words, (tho* 
 1 think him far from being the corredteft Writer of 
 his Nation, and even Doubt, by his Stile, if he is 
 a- Spaniard) if tins is not notorious and fupported by 
 M- itneffes it is fcarcely probable. My Realbns tire, the 
 Portugueze, to whom this Hand belongs, and the 
 Spaniards, can undtrftand one another as well as 
 
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the North and South Britons •, they are not only 
 both Chriftians , the latter at lead in Profeffion, but 
 both Roman Catholicks, and the Englijh look’d upon 
 by both, as Hereticks. Now can it be thought that 
 any Englijhman could be io infatuated, as to ima¬ 
 gine Moderns, fo little diftant from Old Spain , inha¬ 
 bited by Romans, little differing in Language from 
 -the Spaniards, was a proper Place to dilpofe of 
 thefe poor betrayed People, and the fecurefl to con¬ 
 ceal hisVillany ? Can we fuppofe the Portngueze 
 would purchafe thofe of their own Religion tor 
 Slaves; or that the Spaniards would, when ex¬ 
 pos’d to Sale, abet the Treachery of the Englijh 
 by their Silence, and fuffer themfelves to be told 
 as Purkijh Captives? This one Charge coroborates 
 my ftrong Belief, that his Catholick Majeffy could 
 never have had any Knowledge of this Libel upon 
 the Englijh Nation, far from directing and autho¬ 
 rizing its Publication ; for. His Majeffy being now 
 a ! declared Enemy to my Country, is not Motive 
 fufficient to make me entertain an ill Opinion of 
 his Prudence. A King will never fuffer any Fad 
 to be advanced under the Sanction of his Authority, 
 which is not clearly evinced •, but here the Author 
 again, in this Accufation, lays himfelf open, by 
 charging us with an enormous Proceeding, having 
 no Probability on the Side of his Affertion •, while 
 we can, by living Witnefs, prove that this Enor¬ 
 mity of making Slaves of free-born Chriftians , has 
 been long the barbarous Practice of thole of his 
 own Nation. They have chain’d a Number of 
 Englijh Subjects on Board their, leaky Ships in the 
 Havannah , and kept them at the Pump Day and 
 Night ; others they have made Galley-Slaves, 
 chain’d them to the Bench, and oblig’d them to 
 take Arms againft their Country, or their Allies •, 
 and’fome ofthem have been kill'd in fuch En- 
 
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 gagements *, feveral have been fent Slaves and 
 buried alive in the Spanijh Mines, and many others 
 have been compell’d ro'work in building or com¬ 
 pleting their Fortifications, as I {hall hereafter 
 prove beyond alt Poffibility of Doubt. 19,1 
 
 The Spanijh Writer of the Cotejo , admits, that 
 if the Englijii could alledge any Thing comparable 
 to the Cruelties with which he taxes them, in the 
 faid Libel, they might doubtlefs juftify the de¬ 
 claring War ; and then, in an exulting Manner, 
 as confcious of the Spaniards having mod religioujly 
 obferv’d the Peace, and adted with the greateft 
 Probity, afks, with a Sneer, Han ido a Caso, &c. 
 H ave the Spaniards, peradventure , in Violation of 
 the facred Band of Peace, gone to ditturb their 
 (meaning the Engli/h) Colonies to over-run their 
 Plantations with an illicit Trade, or to fpoil them 
 of the Produce of their Lands, or of their Effedts? 
 Certainly this Author is either very ignorant of the 
 Behaviour of his Countrymen (if he is a Spaniard) in 
 America , and elfewhere, or muff have but a very 
 humble Share of either Senfe or Modefty to put 
 thefe Queftions to us j which I fiiall anfwer with 
 the Support of irrefragable Proofs in the Pofitive. 
 
 The Spaniards have difturb’d cur Plantations, 
 have injur’d us by a molt pernicious illicit Trade, 
 and have robb’d us, not only of the Produce of our 
 Lauds, and of our Slaves and Effedts; but have 
 Carried off into Slavery the Inhabitants of our Plan- 
 
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 tations, free Subjects of his Britannick Majefty. 
 Should I follow the Example of the Writer of the 
 Cotejo, and not proceed to prove thefe heavy 
 Charges, I fhould expedt as little Credit as I be¬ 
 lieve he meets with in thofe he brings againft the 
 Englijh , upon his bare Word, among all Men of 
 Senle. Wherefore, if it may be allowed, as I am of 
 Opinion it will, that their landing in a pyratical 
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 Manner to plunder the Inhabitants of Jamaica , as 
 they have often done, and keeping the Planters 
 continually alarmed and upon their Guard to pre¬ 
 vent their Depredations, is difturbing our Colonies ; 
 the Sequel will fully evince the Truth of this Charge. 
 If trading with our rebellious Negroes ; taking off 
 the Spoils they make by plundering the Plantations; 
 murdenng the Owners of them; and fupplying thefe 
 black Rebels with Arms, be an illicit Trade, of 
 the molt deftruftive Nature, I have already fhewn 
 that the Spaniards have, and no Doubt ltill carry 
 on fuch pernicious Pradtices: for did they not cor- 
 refpend with the run-away Negroes , how Ihould 
 fome of them get to, and be allowed to fettle at 
 Trinidado ? How Ihould they be armed with Spa- 
 Tiijh Machetas , if they had not been convey’d to 
 them by the Spaniards, with the pious Catholick 
 Defign to fupport them in their Rebellion? That 
 they have not only plunder’d our Plantations of 
 our Negroes, which are our Effedts, but alfo robb’d 
 us of the Produce of our Lands, our Crops of Su¬ 
 gar, fsV. and carried off our Inhabitants ; the fol¬ 
 lowing Account will, I hope, be efteem’d Proof 
 fufficient to fupport my Affertion of their having 
 
 been guilty.-of thefe Outrages.,,. v d v V T' lit - i 
 Don Jofeph Cajlillo, a Gentleman of Dinidado, 
 has, in his Poffeffion, taken from the North Side 
 of Jamaica, three Negroes , Matthew , Co jo, and 
 Ccefar , befide feveral others, which the Writer of 
 this Pamphlet hath fpoken to in his (Don Jofeph' s) 
 Plantation, on the River Taya Becoa. Several 
 other Negroes, taken from Jamaica, are in the 
 Hands of the Alcalde and Scrivano of the aforefaid 
 
 Village. I, (fmW SfirfSbqttAaS 
 
 In 1729 four Sugar Drogers, Sloops employed 
 to carry the Produce of our Plantations to Port-' 
 Royal or Kingftcn Market, w'ere taken by the Spa- 
 
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wards, laden .with. Sugar?, &V. within a Mile of 
 the Jamaica Shore. 'The Name of one of thefe 
 was the Carrion Crow, Hinckley, Mailer ; the 
 Names of the other three and their Commanders 
 haveflip’d my Memory. Thele were all try’d and 
 condemn’d as lawful Prizes : which Mock-Ihew of 
 
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 Juftice, oblig’d the Mailers and feveral of their Men 
 to travel on Foot, more than once, from Trinidado to 
 the Havannah, to make their Defence, , with Hopes 
 that they fhould have their Vefiels and Effedts re¬ 
 leafed •, a Journey of 300 Miles and upwards. With 
 What Face can the Author of the Cotejo exclaim a- 
 «ainfl the Englijh as guilty of Pyracies, upon the 
 Spaniards, when they come upon our Coafts and 
 take unarm’d Veffels, carrying no more Men than 
 are abfolutely neceflary to navigate them, within 
 a Mile of our own Shore • traofporting, under 
 the Sardlion of Peace, the Produce of our Planta- 
 tations to ou>" own Markets ; and under Colour and 
 Form of Juflice condemn them as lawful Prizes? 
 Here could no illicit Tride be lain to their Charge ; 
 no Pretence of a Defign to commit Hoftilities. 
 Surely this is robbing our Pjantations ; this is plun¬ 
 dering us of our Effedis; without they interpert all 
 that the lflana of Jamaica produces their Property, 
 as it was once in their Poffefiion : and yet we hold 
 ir by as good a Title, as they do any Part of their 
 American Dominions,. Jte£ afide the Pope’s liberal 
 Donation of what did not belong to him ; which 
 ought indeed to be of Weight, equal to his Right 
 of Difpolal; and this even we Hereticks, as they 
 term 11s, cannot but allow juft. 
 
 I have charged, the Spaniards with carrying off 
 not only our Negroes, but our. white Inhabitants^ 
 from the I Panel of Jamaica, and tyrannically de¬ 
 taining them as Slaves I might fay ufir.g them 
 
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 name fuch as I myfelf have feen at Trinidado, jho’f 
 omit mentioning feveral other Families, that I hat® 
 heard were at Santa Maria and Santa, Efpiritu, 
 with others whom I have met in travelling from onq 
 End of the Ifland of Cubai o the other, in Com¬ 
 pany with fix of my Countrymen, forced to th# 
 toillome Journey, deftitiite of all Neceffiaries, by 
 the Pyracies and Cruelty of t;hofe religious Obfefr 
 vers of Peace, the Spaniards, to efcape their Ty¬ 
 ranny. ■” DlJ * ■ . T -. »V _£ 
 
 Mr. ‘Thomas Clark, his Wife, three Sons and 
 two Daughters, taken from their Plantation on the 
 North Side of Jamaica , to the Leeward of St. 
 Ann's, forcibly detain’d, and the Daughters, how¬ 
 ever contrary to the Inclinations of the Parents, 
 clapp’d into a Nunnery. John JVhite and his Wife j 
 Dominick Rofe •, John Sherman, a Ship Carpenter, 
 whom they keep to build their Perriaguas, and 
 other Privateers j Dr. Read a Surgeon, and two 
 other Englijhmen , whofe Names I cannot recall, 
 tho’ I knew them perfonally. All thefe unhappy 
 People wou’d run any Hazard to get from under 
 tire Tyranny of the Lamb-like Spaniards, by whom 
 they are daily ill ufed, and infulted for their fted- 
 falt Adherence to that Religion, in which they had 
 been educated, and which even the Chriftian-like 
 Meeknefs and Humanity of thefe exemplary Ca- 
 tholicks have not as yet prevailed upon them to re¬ 
 nounce •, at leaft their Example was inefficacious 
 while I was among them. As a Proof that they ' 
 wou’d at any Hazard get from among this injured 
 Nation of pious Chriftians, they have often at¬ 
 tempted to make their Elcapes, and trufled to the 
 Mercy of the Sea in frnall Canoes i but have been 
 as often difcovered and prevented Having I hope . 
 anfwered the Queries made by the Author of the 
 Cotejo, and fuppcrted that Ail fiver, 1 fhall proceed 
 
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 to prove the Charge I have brought againft his 
 Countrymen, Page iq. . c , 
 
 Capt. Holmes, of Boflon in New England, and his 
 Mate were iron’d, as the Spaniards term it engrillos , 
 on board a Spanijh leaky Ship in the Harbour of 
 the Havannab, and forced to work at the Pumps j 
 and when relieved, it was by other Englijh Men, who 
 took their Places. This is the Employment, or 
 rather Slavery, which almoft all the Englijh they 
 carry into the Havannab are put to. I have, feen 
 fome Scores of my Countrymen employ’d in this 
 Drudgery, and the Fear of being compell’d to the 
 fame Labour, made me lay hold on the firft Op¬ 
 portunity to get from the Hdvnanah •, which I did 
 in Company with Capt. Caleb Godfrey, G&pt.Holmes 
 and his' Mate, juft mentioned, Samuel Sherman, 
 John Whitehead, and Francis Suzo, a Portugueze, 
 who had long failed out of New England. We,-: 
 reach’d Batamanoa , fourteen or lixteen Leagues 
 diftant from the Havannab , without Interruption : r 
 Here it is that the Spaniards land their Cocoa, from 
 Chagre and Porto Bello . A Sloop, formerly taken 
 from the Englijh, arrived at the fame Time j the 
 Commander, ieeming to take Companion on our 
 unhappy Situation, engaged us to help him in un¬ 
 lading his Cocoa •, promifing, in Return, to give 
 us a Caft to Xagua, which lies to Windward of 
 this Place, nearer Jamaica, whither we endeavour’d 
 to get, and this Lift wou’d fave us fixty Leagues 
 walking. The honeft Spaniard kept his Word, andio 
 carried us to Xagua ; but we little thought to what 
 End this uncommon Humanity was fhewn us by a 
 Spaniard ■, however, we were not long left in the 
 Error of believing one of that Nation cou’d be 
 ghUty of a good Aftion, which the World very , 
 
 them Hjuftice,] t%(}ay to their^/l 
 
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 When wc arrived at Xagua, we found the Spa¬ 
 niards employ’d in building a Battery for ten Guns 
 on the Larboard Entrance. Our generous Captain, 
 who had given us a Paffage hither, would alfo pro¬ 
 vide us with Lodging, and proper Attendance: 
 We were fet on Shore, lock’d up at Nights in a 
 miferable Hut, and brought out every Morning to 
 c^rry Stones, and cut Wood, which we were coin? 
 pell’d to do, with a Driver at our Backs, for fix 
 Weeks, to compleat the Work we found them em¬ 
 ploy’d about} in all which Time, not one of us 
 cou’d complain of having over eat himfelf ; and as 
 to Drink, tho’ we had no Stint of Liquid, no Peo¬ 
 ple breathing cou’d live more fober Lives, if I may 
 be allow’d to fay it, without the Imputation of Va¬ 
 nity : but then, what we wanted in Provifions, the 
 liberal Spaniards made up with Baftinadoes. .To be 
 ferious, we were almoft famifh’d, and cou’d we 
 have work’d for them without, ’tis very probable 
 we Ihou’d not have had the poor Pittance they al¬ 
 low’d us : In a Word, we were much worfe ufed 
 than their Negroes. This Treatment made us en¬ 
 deavour to efcape. The Defign of robbing the Spa¬ 
 niards of feven able Slaves being difcover’d, we 
 were threaten’d to be put on board a Galley, which 
 at that Time came in, and had lately, together 
 with a Scooner, engaged a Dutch Ship at the South 
 t^uais, that had handled them very roughly, and 
 burnt the Scooner. ■ t( i. v 
 
 As we were compelled to row our Task-mafters 
 on board this Vefifel, we had the Opportunity of 
 feeing and (peaking to feveral Englijh Subjedfs 
 chained to the Oar ; one of them, named John 
 Hethririgton , a ScotfmanJ^idfkicsly belonging to 
 the Carrion Crow Sugar Droguer , when llie was 
 taken, as is before related. By thele unfortunate 
 Men, who from frte-born Englijh Subje&s were 
 
 dwindled 
 
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 dwindled to Spanijh Galley Slaves, we were told, 
 that they were forced to take Arms in the late En¬ 
 gagement with the 'Dutchman ; and that there was 
 another Galley at Sea .belonging to the Havannah, 
 on board of which were alfo feveral Englijh, taken 
 at different Times, chain’d to the Oar, and com- 
 pell’d alfo to fight againft their'Country, or its 
 Allies, in fome of which Engagements leveral of 
 them had loft their Lives. 
 
 Having, with great Difficulty, obtained a Li¬ 
 cence to proceed from this Place, on our Journey, 
 we got to Taya Beccoa, where lay four Englijh Vef- 
 fels, three Sloops and a Brigantine, with Negroes j 
 the Commanders Names, Captain Bedlow, Captain 
 Cornelius George, Captain Snee, and Captain Nailor t 
 all well known at Jamaica, to which Ifland they be¬ 
 long’d. At our Arrival here, we Were feized by the 
 T’eniente del Mar, Lieutenant of the Sea, and as 
 Slaves, forced to cut Wood ten Days for the Sol¬ 
 diers, by Dint of Stripes ; in the Distribution of 
 which, among the Englijh, I never fotind the Spa¬ 
 niards Nigards. We wfere here treated with yet 
 greater Inhumanity than we had hitherto met, not 
 being allow’d any Covering or Shelter at Night j 
 but forced to lie on the Sands in the open Air, ex- 
 pofed to the terrible Stings of the Mul'quetoes; to 
 guard ourfelves from which, we were obliged to 
 bury our Bodies, and wrap up oUr Heads in our 
 Trowzers. During the fhort Time of this our lafi 
 Slavery, we were not once allow’d to fpeak to any 
 of our Countrymen belonging to the before-men¬ 
 tion’d Veffels, who daily came a-flioar, and often 
 beckon’d us; but the Strokes 0/ the Mach etas, 
 which the Spaniards had often beftow’d upon us, 
 with the Flat of the Blade, had fo thoroughly 
 taught us the Doftrine of pa Hive Obedience, we 
 durlt not venture to- break- their Ofde'rs. At the 
 ^viH Vi Expiration 
 
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 Expiration of the above time of our Captivity, we 
 wqre permitted to go on board the Paradox Sloop, 
 the Commander Capt. George having offer’d us a 
 PafTage to Jamaica. 
 
 As I am not writing the Hiftory of my own Life, 
 but a Particular of fuch Spanijh Cruelties as I have 
 either mylelf fuffer’d ; been an Eye-witnels of, 
 or can fupport by the Teftimony of living Witnef- 
 fes, I fhall proceed to make good my Alfa tions in 
 Page 14th. 
 
 1 was a fecond Time taken by two SpajiiJh Crui- 
 2ers, with nine other Englijh Sloops and Brigan¬ 
 tines, and fet on Shore on the Continent of New 
 Spain, with fix other Britijh Subjects, 'viz. Samuel 
 Gardener , John Baxter , Matthew Bell , IVdliam 
 Pye, and Benjamin Bunn , * * at Porto Cavallos , and 
 with my above named unfortunate Companions, 
 condemned to work in the Mines, and marched 
 with our Hands tied behind us, three Days, in-!and, 
 to that Purpofe j but, however, luckily found art 
 Opportunity to efcape from our Guards: Though 
 feveral other Englijh Subje&s, taken at the fame 
 Tirrte, and efcorted to the Mines in different Par¬ 
 ties ; fome, before I began my March to Guati- 
 mala, had not the fame good Fortune; but, if ftill 
 living, are now buried in thofe fubterranean Prifons. 
 
 As to the Spaniards detaining; and obliging the 
 Englijh Prifoners they took, contraTy to the Law 
 of Nations, in time of Peace, to work at their For¬ 
 tifications } it is a Fadl, fo' very notorious, that 1 
 need bring no other Proof than that of mine and my 
 
 Companions at Xagua. if * 2-5 
 
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 * N.B. Benjamin Bunn] at Truxifii % was tortured with fram¬ 
 ing Matches tied between his,Fingers ;.and to put an endltotbe 
 Torment, he jump’d over-board; but was takep Up by the Pri¬ 
 vateers Boat, a* they thought him an. able Slave ; his Crime was 
 
 refufing to dive, and fetch up the Bolrs of the Veflcl they had 
 burnti^ mfMU'VKMJ OJ 300 Xtv 
 
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Having thus, by feveral Fails, which I hope 
 will be allow’d well fupported, proved what I have 
 alleged againft the Spaniards, with regard to their 
 tyrannical and inhuman Treatment of the Englijh 
 Subjects; and (hewn that they are not the pacific 
 harmlefs Nation, the Author ot the Cotejo would 
 inlinuate they are j and having put it beyond all 
 Doubt, with impartial Men, that they are a bloody 
 inhuman People: yet, as 1 know they have Par¬ 
 ti zans, even among us, who will maintain they are 
 incapable of being guilty of Barbarities equal to 
 thofe they have differed by the Englijh , I (hall pro¬ 
 ceed to give a farther Detail of fuch (hocking Fails, 
 as one would think impollible for Men to perpe¬ 
 trate, who profefs themlelves Chridians. 
 
 When I was taken a fecond Time, I was, with 
 other Commanders and Fore-mad Men, carried on 
 board the Privateer, and fet to work. One Day, 
 a Negroe named Paulo , who was made Captain of 
 one of the Prizes called the Virgin Queen, taken 
 from Richard Durfey of Rhode JJland, came upon 
 Deck, and order’d Captain William Homer , of 
 Charles Town in New England , and others, into the 
 Canoe, to row him on board a Brigantine, taken 
 from Captain John Kent, of Bojton, alio in New 
 England. Captain Homer, looking upon this Com¬ 
 mand (rom a Negro as a very great Indignity and 
 Inlult upon him, anfwer’d furlily. There were Fore- 
 mad Men enough •, on which the Negroe druck 
 him in the Face, and Homer gave him a Thrud 
 from him, on which Affront, the Black drew a 
 Pidol, and (hot him through the Head: Then, as 
 having done a glorious Adtion, he walk’d the Deck 
 with the Grand Pas, taking Snuff with an Air of 
 great Satisfaction. This Murder of a naked Man, 
 in cold Blood ; the giving me a great Cut from the 
 Top o( my Head to my Ear, with his Cutlafs, and 
 
 threatening 
 
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 threatening to fend me to Hell after the Heretical 
 Dog my Companion, acquired him, among the 
 Spaniards , the Character of bum Soldado, a gallant 
 Warrior. I got this Alfanjado , or Cut, for daring 
 to expoftulate with the Murderer, on the Cruelty 
 of the ACfion ; which had fo warmed my Blood* 
 that ’tis very poffible I was lefs refpeCtful in the 
 Terms I made life of, than became me to a Man 
 of his Confequence. I did not recover of this 
 Wound in fix Weeks. A French Surgeon had the 
 Charity to drefs me ; and as I was not capable of 
 hard Labour, to which I had, with the other 
 EngUJh Prifoners, been hitherto clofely kept, I was 
 fent on board a Prize, as an Invalid, to navigate 
 her, under the Command of a Gallician , after the 
 Privateer. Through the Ignorance and Obftinacy 
 of this Fellow, we ran upon a Quai; and the Vef- 
 fel received fo much Damage, that fhe was con¬ 
 demned to be burnt* Toexcufe himfelf, the Gal¬ 
 lician threw the Blame of this Accident upon me •, 
 and I was, for wilfully deftroying this Prize, con¬ 
 demn’d to be * Maroon’d: However, they did not 
 put this Sentence in Execution, as they had often 
 folicited me to take on with them, and poflibly 
 hoping they might prevail, rhey now renew’d their 
 Solicitations, and made ufe of the Lenity fhewn me, 
 as an Argument which ought to determine me: 
 But all their Cardies proving ineffectual, they re- 
 folved to take other Methods, and I was brought 
 up three feveral Times to be foot. This alfo fail¬ 
 ing of the defired EfteCt, they refolved upon put¬ 
 ting me to a more cruel Death. I have laid, that 
 the damaged Velfel was condemned to be burnt: 
 To this End, they took out all the Prifoners, lent 
 me into the Hold to bring up Wood, and while 1 
 
 * Set upon a defolate I Hand. 
 
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was there, let the Brigantine, for filch the Prize 
 was, on Fire; which was all in a Blaze, when I 
 was coming up. By good Fortune they had, I 
 fuppofe, forgot to fliut down the Hatches. I ran 
 through the Flame, by which I was fcorched; 
 threw myfelf into the Sea, and fwamafhore; where 
 the Spaniards merrily afked me, whether I liked 
 broiling or boiling beft, and were not a little di¬ 
 verted at the Danger I had been in. As I was 
 looked upon a ufeful Hand, they were fatisfied with 
 the Revenge taken. The next and following Day, 
 the Veffel being burnt to the Waters Edge, I was 
 compell’d to dive and fetch up the Bolts, which had 
 fallen either on the outfide her Hull, or into her 
 Hold, while fhe burn’d ; though with the Heat of 
 the Sun 1 was fo blifter’d the firft Day, that large 
 Flakes of my Skin came off. Thefe Bolts they 
 * marled three and four together, to make Shot for 
 Weir gfvarGtmSf « 333 ^ Jshim 3iaw. orivz t ambG 
 
 I fhall mention but one Barbarity more, and 
 then leave the World to compare the Cruelties im¬ 
 puted to the Englifh , with thofe actually pradtifed 
 by the Spaniards ; not but I could fwell this 
 Pamphlet to a Volume, wou’d I, as the Author of 
 the Cotcjo has done, bring Accufations, and allege 
 Fadts without fpecifying any, or even every Parti¬ 
 cular neceffary to give them Credit; the Barbarity 
 of the Spaniards 'eing the mod common Topick 
 or Dilcourle among the fea-faring People of * our 
 Plantations, as there are very few who have not 
 fuffered, one Time or other, under their Tyranny. 
 
 Tortugo , called Saltetudos , is an uninhabited 
 Ifiand in America , commonly frequented by the 
 ETrigTi/Iitor loading of Salt. Once a Year a Fleet 
 
Ois)) 
 
 goes thither From Barbadoes , under Convoy of a 
 Man of War. Captain Alexander Brompton > in the 
 Year , running a-head of the Fleet, which 
 was under Convoy oF his Majefty’s Ship the Sheer - 
 nefs , got to the Ifland fome Days before it, At his 
 going a-fhoar he was received by an Ambufcade of 
 Spaniards , with a Flight of Arrows, by which his 
 Boatfwain was killed, and a great many of his Men 
 being wounded, he recovered his Ship with great 
 Difficulty. On the Arrival of the Sheernefs with the 
 Fleet, they found nine Englifhmen flaked down 
 with Stakes driven through their Bodies, who 
 Teemed to have been but lately murdered, and fe- 
 veral other dead Bodies of our Countrymen, that 
 had fallen by the fame mercilefs Hands, were 
 found fcatter’d over the Ifland. This Chriftian-like 
 Fadl can be attefled by the Captain, Officers, and 
 Seamen of the Sheernefs , and a great Number, of 
 others, who were in that Fleet, and Taw the dead 
 
 Bodiesaorn yihj>chflS ono jud noi}r>i<n fed! T 
 
 I may now appeal to even the Author of the Co? 
 
 tejo , whether by his own Conceflion, his Britan- 
 nick Majefty had not Provocations-, and Ground 
 fufhcient for declaring War agamft the Spaniards ; 
 as thefe are his own Words, Si eft os * Succeffos, y 
 otrcs iguales qtie fe omiten, pudieron alegarlos los In- 
 glej'es , es cierto que juftificarian fu Declaracion de 
 Guerra ; after which he ieems to be aware of Re- 
 crimrnation, and before-hand to anfwer all that he 
 apprehends we may juftly lay to the Charge of his 
 Countrymen, by terming their Depredations juft 
 and lawful Prizes. The making Prize, lays he, of 
 
 _ * If the Erigf/h cou’d allege fuch Wrongs, and others nolefs 
 
 grievous, which are not here inferred, doubtlefs they might 
 very well juflify their Declaration. 
 
 tbofe, 
 
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 tbofe , who tarried on an unlawful 'Trade , &c. merits 
 neither the reproachful Epithets , with which it is 
 mention'd, nor is it fufficient Ground for the Clamour 
 that is rmfed. 
 
 Can this Author call the carrying the Produce of 
 our own Plantations, from one Part of our Ifland 
 to the other, a clandeftine Trade ? or the taking 
 fuch unarmed Vefiels, lawful Prizes? Do their 
 Pyrates, for I can term them no better, who carry 
 black Colours, * come upon the Coafts of Jamaica 
 in Search of illicit Traders, or to rob our Mer¬ 
 chants and Planters, or otherwife to abett, main¬ 
 tain, and furnifh with Stores of War our rebel¬ 
 lious Negroes ? Let every impartial Man judge of 
 the Candour of this Spanifh Writer, and of the 
 Humanity of his Countrymen, whom he would 
 pafs upon the World as an inoffenfive People, pa¬ 
 tient of Injuries, and oppreffed by Wrongs ; who 
 have never given any Provocation to the Englijh , 
 by difturbing their Colonies, or plundering them 
 of the Produce of their Plantations, or other Ef- 
 fedts ; or can polfibly be taxed with carrying on 
 any illicit Trade in their Settlements : who have 
 fuffer’d repeated Cruelties, and who have, at 
 Length, been oblig’d, by the Englijh infultihg 
 their Coafts, and by dint of Violence, forcing upon 
 them an unlawful Trade, taken up Arms in their 
 
 * The following Captains carried black Colours. Pedro 
 Paulo, from Camptcby, in a Sloop of twelve Carriage, fixteen 
 Swivel Guns, and an hundred Men. Christopher Corne- 
 l io, in another of twelve Carriage, and twelve Swivel Guns, 
 with sixty Men, from St. Jago. The Mulato Hieraro, in a 
 large Sloop from the fame Place. Martinillo and Nicho¬ 
 las, both from the Hsvannah. Pedro Qyt ntero, and another, 
 wh&e Name I have forgot, from St. Ljperitu, and two others 
 c'-U of Trinidado, whofe Names I have alio loft. L . • — 
 
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 own Defence. This taking Arms, to prevent 
 clandeftine Trade, is fo inconfiftent, it needs no 
 Animadverfion ; and one would heardly think the 
 Spanijh Writer ferious, or if he was, that he had 
 not his Senles about him, when he advanced it. f 
 have heard that the Eye of a Rattle Snake once 
 fix’d upon a Squirrel, has fuch an efficacious Power, 
 that the poor terrified Animal cannot avoid drop- 
 ing into his Mouth : but I can hardly believe that 
 the Sight of an Englijh Smuggler on the American 
 Coafts, has the fame EffeCt, and will conftrain 
 the Spaniards, contrary to their Inclination, to 
 bring their Money, and purchafe Englijh Goods, 
 which they have no Manner of Qccalion for. 
 
 As I did not in this Pamphlet Defign to anfwer 
 the Cotejo , I ffiall take no Notice of what he fays 
 with Regard to Violation of Treaties, or other 
 publick Affairs, which I leave for others, whole 
 Province it may be j not doubting to fee them re¬ 
 futed by a much abler Hand. I hope I have made 
 good, what might be expedited from my Title Page, 
 confronting the Barbarities charg’d by the Cotejo 
 to the Account of the Englijh, unfupported by e- 
 ven circumftantial Proof, with thole, the EngliJJj 
 have really fuffer’d from the Spaniards too evident¬ 
 ly made appear to admit of the lealt Doubt of their 
 being the pure Truth. 
 
 I have heard of a Number of other Englijh Sub¬ 
 jects, who have been treated with Inhumanity, e- 
 qual to that my Companions and I have fuffered, 
 and mentioned in this Pamphlet, while groaning 
 under the Tyranny of the Buenos Chrijlianos: which 
 I hope will one Day be publifh’d in Jullification of 
 their King and Country, upbraided with an unjuft 
 Declaration of War ; that the the World may be 
 convinc’d they wrongfully tax our Nation with 
 Barbarities which are inccffantly practis’d by their 
 
 own 
 
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 own 5 and of which no other Enemy, look as far 
 back as the earlieft Hiftory, ever accus'd us. We 
 have had long and bloody Wars with the French j 
 I havf been fome Time in France , and converfant 
 witfvinany OfHecft who ferv’d in thofe Wars j yet 
 never- heard arfy one of them lay Cruelty art our 
 Door: on the contrary, they will allow the Englijh 
 a brave and a fair Enemy j but the French are 
 themfelves. a brave and a generous .Enemy. 
 
 As the Author is well acquainted with' moil of the 
 Ikulking Places of thefe pyratical American Spa¬ 
 niards, particularly round the Ifland of Cuba, if 
 the Government, or the Merchants of Great Bri¬ 
 tain, will give him proper Encouragement, he will 
 undertake, upon the forfeit of his Life, to root 
 them out, and put a Check to their daily Depreda¬ 
 tions, attended with uncommon Cruelties, as I have 
 (hewn, exercis'd on the unhappy Perfons, who have 
 fallen into their Hands in the American Seas ; but 
 which arc not limited to that Quarter of the^Vorld 
 only, as the fubjoin’d Cafe will evince* to omit 
 many others which I Could mention. 
 
 
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 T HrE 
 
.T H E 
 
 CASE 
 
 OF 
 
 RICHARD COPITHORNE 
 
 Sole Owner and Matter of the Ship Betty 
 Galley, Burthen 150 Tons; relating to his 
 being taken by the Spaniards , and the 
 Lottes fuftained by himleif and the Freigh¬ 
 ters thereby. 
 
 Humbly addrejfed to the Honourable the House of 
 Commons. 
 
 HIS Ship having been taken in Europe 
 near twelve Years ago, and the Sufferers 
 gone through all the Formalities of mak¬ 
 ing good their Claim for the Lofs there¬ 
 of, both here, purfuant to his Majeffy’s Commands 
 publifh’d in the London Gazette , and all'o before 
 the Commiffaries in Spain : But having received 
 no Satisfaction, and apprehending from the Words 
 ofh is Majefty’s moft gracious Speech, that the Sa¬ 
 tisfaction now ftipulated relates only to Captures in 
 America , they «humbly- beg Leave to make their 
 Cafe known at this Juncture, not doubting but the 
 great Goodnefs of this Honourable Houfe will pro¬ 
 vide Means for their Relief. 
 
 The faid Richard Copithorne being bound upon a 
 Voyage from Meffina to London, was, upon the 
 .. 29th 
 
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 29th Day of attack’d by a 
 
 SpiWtJh Privateer under tfurhfh Colours; and upon 
 Refufal to ftrike, the Privateer charg’d him with 
 '•’3 whole Fire, ( and boirded him. with a great 
 Number of Men, which oblig’d him to take the 
 necefiary Means for his Defence, and thereby 
 forc’d the Enemy to put off, leaving about thirty of 
 heir Men behind, who were reduc’d to the Ne- 
 Of taking to the Ship’s Tops, Rigging, and 
 Sides,' where they could belt beftow themfelves 
 
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 The Privateer, finding his Men thus left on 
 board, and not able to compals his Defigns, in 
 order to regain his Men, boarded the Ship a fe- 
 >nd Time, with Stink-pots, Powder-flalks, and 
 Pole-axes: Upon which the faid Copithorns dif- 
 , barg’d his great Guns, loaden with Double-round 
 and Partridge, with all his final! Arms, and at the 
 fiime Time fdt fire to his Powder-chefts, which o- 
 bligU the Enemy a fecohd Time to retire. 
 
 The Enemy , finding they could not force him to 
 fub'mit, refolv’d (having little or no Wind) to take 
 the Ship in Towe, and by that Means to carry her 
 to the Ifland of Alboran , (being about two Miles 
 Difbance) there to deftroy the Ship,upon the Rocks, 
 and put every Soul to the Sword, as afterwards ap- 
 
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 Covitkorr.e, finding himfelf in this defperate Con¬ 
 dition, gave Orders to change the Helm, which 
 brohght the Privateer a-long-fide 3 and making ufe: 
 oUtirat Advantage, fir’d his Guns again, loaden as 
 efore *, which not only cut the Flarfer of the Pri- 
 ;i?<fbV, and unfhip’d many of her Oars, but alfo 
 
 Ship, cutting and defuoying Mails, 
 
 Sails, 
 
 
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 Sails, and Rigging, and at the fame continual Fire 
 from the Privateer at his Clofe-quarters *, and the 
 Spaniards on board were by their own Boat fupply’d 
 with frefh Men and Arms, and the fame Boat car- 
 
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 ried off their Dead and wounded. 
 
 After five or near fix Hours Engagement,, in 
 which three of Copithorne’s Men were kill’d, him- 
 felf and three more wounded, the Deck blew up by 
 Accident unknown, the Bulk-head falling flat upon 
 Deck, and the Enemy from the Forecaftle at the 
 fame Time fir’d a Volley of Small-fhot into the 
 Cabbin. By the blowing up the Deck, Copithorne’s 
 Foot was taken in between two Planks; which kept 
 him faff for an Objedt of the Enemy’s Cruelty, 
 who fnapp’d leveral Piftols and Guns at him whilft 
 in that Condition •, and they {tripp’d him, and 
 without Mercy batter’d, cut, and ftabb’d him lo 
 inhumanly, that they themfelves believed him to be 
 dead as he lay upon the Floor, naked and weltering 
 in Blood. After fome Time, and with fome Dif¬ 
 ficulty, they got his Foot clear, and by four Men 
 tofs’d him out upon the Deck, and from thence into 
 the Boar, and carried him on board the Privateer; 
 where he lay in the mod miferable Condition,naked, 
 for nine Days before he was landed ; in which 
 Time the Captain of the Privateer and Company 
 put it to the Vote, whether they fhould murder the 
 Prifoners, and carry the Ship to IviJJa or Ma]orca y 
 
 to difpofc of as they thought proper, or fpare the 
 Prifoners Lives, and carry/them to Malaga , ac¬ 
 cording to their Orders; "add it : was carried by a 
 Majority of two or three Votes only, to fpare their 
 Lives, and (land in for Malaga. Haying thus re- 
 lotv’d, they kept the Prifoners on board the Piiva 
 tfcer fourteen Hours, without a Drop of iiefh \Y ’.iter 
 to relieve them, wfntfi omig cj two 6 F them in that 
 Time to tirfok fait'Water n vtr.: 1 Fimcs j and thev 
 
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 iupply'd Mr. Copitbome with no other Suftenance- 
 than '-•Bread and Fifh 1 Bdnes from • the ' Captain 
 of the Privateer’s Table ; neither would they- 
 grant him a. little Spir$|g*to walh his Wounds, 
 nor in ’ the Heat of the Day allow him, 
 the Benefit of the Arning, which they had 
 to keep off the fcorching Sun, but draw’d it a*- 
 fide on purpofe to torment him with the Heat;, 
 which fbeing naked) blifter’d his Body in a molt 
 difmal Manner, and the cold Dew of the Night 
 falling afterwards, gave him as much Uneafinefs as 
 the Wounds he received in the Engagement. Ha¬ 
 ving thus ufed him for nine Days, they carried him 
 into Malaga, where he was inform’d, that the Ene-: 
 my had lott twenty-four or twenty-five Men, and 
 had a confiderable Number wounded •, and alfb. 
 found that the Ship and Cargo was no lawful Cap¬ 
 ture. Upon which Nicholas Holloway, Eiq; his 
 Majefty’s Conful, made a Demand of the Ship and 
 Cargo, and all Damages to be made good. And 
 proper Application was alio made to Mr. Vander 
 Meer, Ambaffador to, the States General then at 
 Madrid, and Sir Charles Wager at Gibraltar, from 
 whom great Hopes were conceived that the Shi; 
 and Cargo would be reftored to the Owners, am 
 the Damages made good, according to the true In¬ 
 tent and Meaning of the Preliminary Articles; but, 
 contrary to all Juftice and Equity, there came an 
 Order from Madrid the 14th of Oflober following, 1 
 ro fell the Ship and Cargo tor the Ule of the cruel 
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 It is very remarkable in this Affair, That the 
 preliminary Articles were fign’d at Paris the 31ft 
 of May iy 27- N. S. which was twenty-nine Days 
 before the faid Ship was taken ; and, upon the 18th 
 of June 1737- his Catholick Majefty accepted and 
 fign’d the faid Preliminaries',' tho’ he detain’d them 
 
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 Ceveral Days before he accepted $e fame; and.up¬ 
 on the 23d following, all Hoftilfties ceafed at Gib- 1c 
 traitor and the Camp of St. Rocty ; and upon the 
 25th of the fame Month it was publickly known ac - 
 Malaga, (from whence the laid Privateer, fail’d $he 
 fame Evening) and. other Parts of the Sea GoaSs, 
 which was four Days, before the faid Ship was 
 
 cakeh. n je ni ybo8 ziri l/iaftiki *(barfjjfl- aniedf *rio 
 
 In Confequence of the laid Articles, it was ad¬ 
 vertis’d in the London Gazette of the 9th of Aprii\[\& 
 1730. That all the Sufferers included in the fame 
 Ihould give in .and make their Claims upon Oath, 7 
 in order to receive Reftitution, which accordingly 
 was done in this Cafe *, and by the Treaty of Seville, 
 concluded the 9th of November 1729. in the Se 
 cond, the Fifth, and laft feparate Articles, it was 
 fully fttpislated in exprefs Words, That immediate n m 
 Reparation fhould be made to the Sufferers, purfu- 
 ant to the Fifth and Seventh Articles of the faid Pre¬ 
 liminaries. nM. 01. ahi.rn of . ^noijaoilqqA-aaqcn 
 There have been fundry Applications made fo, ’ 
 the moft rd'peCtful and preffing Manner, for Re- 
 drefs in this Affair; and the laid Copit/orue. hath 
 made a Journey on purpofeto Seville, and attended 
 the Commiffaries feme Time, in Hopes of obtain- WjM 
 ing Satisfaction for himfelf arid the .other Sufferers, 
 which was attended with a great Expence and JLofs 
 
 of Time, : ,: 0l ftD fo rii^i aril bhWA moi'f Tab* 
 
 ALL which is humbly /admitted to the Confe¬ 
 deration and Companion of this Honour able 
 
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 x’.pjamesof , <, I, 
 
 Richard Merry, and Comp, Freighters, Oil, 
 
 
 jfoilorb. 
 
 Richard Treome, 26 Butts of Oil, p] 
 Nicholas Skinner, 32 ditto* 
 
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 • yantes Porteen, 3 Bales of Silk. 
 
 Benjamin and Samuel Longuet, 3 ditto.' 
 
 Andrew Hopegood, 2 ditto. 
 
 Miles Cook , 1 ditto. 
 
 Charles La Port , 1 ditto. 
 
 William Carter , 1 Bale of Silk. 
 
 Sir John Peachey , 5 ditto. 
 
 William Snetting y Efq; 1 ditto. 
 
 Charles Eyres , 1 ditto. 
 
 3^/1 1 ditto. 
 
 Daniel Waldo y 1 ditto. 
 
 James Mendis, 1 ditto, 1 Pocket. 
 
 Paul Daranda, 1 ditto. 
 
 Richard Copithorne t Ship, Oil, Wine, Silk, Fruit, 
 Cloaths, Linen, Plate, Money, 
 
 The Ship Loyal Galley , William Pugjley Com¬ 
 mander, from Leghorn , taken upon the 29th of 
 June 1727. JV. S. by another Privateer, and con¬ 
 demned in Malaga upon the 14th of October follow¬ 
 ing. • 
 
 Names of the Sufferers. 
 
 William Cleever , Thomas Speerman y Gent Unwink 
 and Comp, and feveral others. 
 
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