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presents he conferred on Lady Castelmaine, was not 

 only knighted by Charles II., but invested with the 

 deputy-governorship of Jamaica, and the presidency 

 of the Admiralty Court there ; in which capacities 

 he had the pleasure and satisfaction of hanging a 

 considerable number of his old friends and comrades 

 who were so ill advised as to persist in a course which 

 had led their old leader to dignity and. fortune. The 

 scene of the principal exploit of this desperado was 

 the Isthmus of Panama. 



