l8 The iNTnOBUCTIOlT. 



of thefe ion of Robbers • when either by the Trou- 

 bles of particular Times, or the Neglefl: of Go- 

 vernments, they are not cruflx'd before they gather 

 Strength. 



It has been the Cafe heretofore, that when a fin^ 

 gle Pyrate has been fuffered to range the Seas, as 

 not being worth the Notice of a Government, he 

 has by Degrees grown fb powerful, as to put them 

 to the Expence of a great deal of Blood and Trea- 

 fu re, before he was fupprefsM. We fliall not examine 

 how ic came to pafs, that our Py rates in the Wefi-In^ 

 dies have continually increafed till of late this is an 

 Enquiry which belongs to the Legiflature, or Repre- 

 lei.tatives of the People in Parliament, and to theiti 

 we fliall leave it. 



Our Bufinefs fliall be briefly to fliew, what from 

 Beginnings, as inconfiderable as thefe, other Nations 

 have fuffered. 



In the Times of Jl/^rm and SylUy Rome W2iS in 

 her greateft Strength, yet Ihe was fo torn in Pieces 

 by the Fadions of thofe two great Men, that every 

 Thirg which concerned the publick Good was 

 altogether neglefted, when certain Pyrates broke 

 out from Clciliay a Country of jijta Minor^ fituate 

 on the Coafl: of the Mediteranean^ betwixt Syria on 

 the Eaft, from whence it is divided by Mount Tau-- 

 rlsy and Armenia Minor on the Weft. This Begin- 

 ning was mean and inconfiderable, having but two 

 or three Ships, and a few Men, with which they 

 cruifed about the Iflands, taking fuch Ships as^ 

 were very ill arm'd or weakly defended ^ however, 

 by the taking of many Prizes, they fbon increafed 

 in Wealth and Power : The firft Aftion of their's 

 whicli made a Noift, was the taking of Julius Cafar^^ 

 who was as yet a Youth, and who being obliged to 

 fiy frbm the Cruelties of Sy Ha, who Ibught his Life, 

 went into Bithiniay and fojourned a while with iV7- 

 cmedes^ King of that Country j in his Return back 



