CapU BarTHO, ROBEiiTS. 



The Place iappointed for their Tryals, w^s the 

 Steerage of the Ship ^ in order to which^ a large 

 Bowl of Rum Punch was made, and placed upon 

 the Table^ the Pipes and Tobacco being ready, 

 the judicial Proceedings began ^ the Prifoners were 

 brought forth, and Articles of Indiftment againft 

 them read-, they were arraigned upon a Statute 

 of their own making, and the Letter of the Law 

 being flrong againft them, and the Faft plainly 

 proved, they were about to pronounce Sentence* 

 ivhen One of the Judges movM, that they fhould 

 firft Smoak t'other Pipe^ which was according- 

 ly done. 



All the Prifoners pleaded for Arreft of Judg-. 

 menr very movingly, but the Court had fuch an 

 Abhorrence of their Crime, that they could not 

 be prevailed upon to fhew Mercy, till one of the 

 Judges, whole Kame was Valentine j4jhflanty flood 

 lip, and taking his Pipe out of his Mouth, faid, 

 he had fomethins; to offer to the Court in behalf 

 of one of the Prifoners- and fpoke to this Elfeft. 



— ^jj/ Glasby flmll not dye \ — --n me if he 



]ha l. After this learned Speech, he fat down ii; 

 his place, and refumed his Pipe. This Motion 

 W^S loudly oppofed by all the^ reft of the Judges, 

 In equivalent Terms| but J4Jljflanty who was re- 

 folute in his Opinion, made another pathetical 

 Speech in the following Manner. d—n 

 ye G^mlefnen^ I am as good a Man as the heft of you ^ 

 Jl^^l^yfi my S*'?; — 1 if^'ver I turned my Bach to any Man 

 in tm Life ^ or ever TP///, by C?-^^.-, Glasby is 



an 



}fonefi FelloWj ^otwithfianding this Misfortune^ and I love 

 hlm^ J)*--— I d- — — me if Jdon'^t : I hofe he^ll live and 

 repent of what he has done • but dr^---^n if hemuft 

 dye^ I will dye along w'^t^ ^irn^- And thereupon, he 

 pulled put a pair of Piflols, and prefented them 

 io fome of the learned Judges upon the Bench; 

 who, perceiving his Argument lo well fupported, 

 ^ ^ r ' " thought 



