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of a fair Charafter, was forcM into their Service, 

 aiid took the firft Opportunity to get from them, 

 Jtnd therefore received a Pardon ^ but Walter Ken- 

 nedy being a notorious Offender, was executed the 

 ipth of Julyy 1721, at Execution Doch 



The reft of the Py rates who were left in the 

 Ship Rover, ftaid not long behind, for they went 

 afhoreto one of the Weft-India Iflands; what be- 

 came of them afterward*?, I can't tell, but the 

 Ship was found at Sea by a Sloop belonging to St. 

 Chriftophersy and carried into that Ifland with only 

 nine Negroes aboard. 



Thus we fee what a diiliftrous Fate ever attends 

 the Wicked, and how rarely they efcape the Pu- 

 liill'iment due to their Crimes, who, abandoned 

 to fuch a profligate life, rob, fpoil, and prey up- 

 on Mankind, contrary to the Light and Law of Na- 

 ture, as well as the Law of God. It might* have 

 been hoped, that the Examples of thefe Deaths, 

 woyld have been as Marks to the Remainder of 

 this Gang, how to Ihun the Rocks their Companions 

 had fplit on ^ that they would have furrendered to 

 Mercy, or divided themfelves, for ever from fuch 

 Purfuits, as in the End they might be fare would 

 fubjeft them to the fame La wand Puniftiment, which 

 they muft be confcious they now equally delerved - 

 impending Law^ which never let them fleep well, 

 uiilefs when drunk. But all the Ufe that was made 

 of it here, was to commend the Juftice of the 

 Court, that condemn'd Kennedy ^ for he rv as a- fad Dog 

 fthey faid) and deferred the Fate he met with. 



But to go back to Roberts^ whom we left on the 

 Coaft of Caiana, in a grievous Paffion at what Ken- 

 nedy ^xxd the Crew had done:^ and who was now 

 proje&ing new Adventures with his fmall Com- 

 pany in the Sloop ; but finding hitherto they had 

 beei but as a Rope of Sand, they formed a Set of 

 Articles, tobeligned and Iwora tOj tbr'the better 



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