PREFACE. 



XXXV 



certainly. The liberality with which Ulloa exone- 

 rates him from this barbarity, only proves that the 

 other facts he has related, are neither invented nor 

 exaggerated. 



The remainder of the Commodore's exploits may 

 be summed up in the capture of the Manilla ship, 

 and the return to England with his single vessel — 

 the rest of his squadron having been lost, or de- 

 stroyed. The reader may, if he pleases, compare 

 the surprise and sacking of Paita; the plundering 

 of its defenceless inhabitants ; the debaucheries of 

 the sailors ; the seduction and encouragement of 

 slaves to plunder, and run away from their masters; 

 and lastly, the wanton conflagration of the town, 

 from no motives but cowardice, and revenge for the 

 loss of its remaining plunder, with similar outrages 

 at Havre de Grace, Hampton, Washington, and 

 elsewhere, execrated by all civilized nations. He 

 may then also compare the events of Capt. Porter's 

 cruise, and the damage done to the English com- 

 merce, in open, honourai>le warfare, to the boasted 

 exploits of Commodore Anson, which, as the Re- 

 viewer affirms, it is impossible to contemplate, 

 without an expansion and elevation of mind!" 



The author will now take his leave of Commo- 

 dore Anson, and proceed to a short investigation of 

 the character, conduct, and discoveries of Captain 

 Cook, the other navigator, who has been trium- 

 phantly exhibited by the Reviewer, as an example to 

 all succeeding commanders, if in so doing, it chance 

 to happen, that he shall be stripped of his borrowed 

 plumes, and on the authority of his own historians, 

 deprived not only of the honours of those disco- 

 veries so loosely ascribed to him by the world ; and, 

 what is of still greater consequence, proved utterly 

 devoid of justice, or humanity, to the natives of the 

 countries he visited — it is not the author who is to 



