of the crime, this was a light sentence. An underwriter in the
"Chronicle" says: "It is a transaction exceeding in infamy all that
has hitherto appeared in the commerce of our country."

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Wholesale execution of pirates in Newport, R.I., in July, 1723.

CAPTURE OF PIRATES.

This year (1723) two Pirate sloops, called the Ranger and the
Fortune, committed many piracies on the American Coast, having
captured and sunk several vessels.--On the 6th of June, they
captured a Virginia sloop, which they plundered and let go, who
soon after fell in with his Majesty's Ship Grey Hound, Capt.
Solgard, of 20 guns, who on being informed of the piracy,
immediately went in pursuit of the Pirates, and on the 10th came
up with them about 14 leagues south from the east end of Long
Island. They mistaking her for a Merchant ship, immediately gave
chase and commenced firing under the black flag.--The Grey Hound
succeeded in capturing the Ranger, one of the sloops, after
having 7 men wounded, but the other Pirate escaped. The Grey
Hound and her prize arrived in the harbor of Newport, and the
Pirates, 36 in number, were committed for trial.

_Trial of the Pirates._

A Court of Admiralty, for the trial of Pirates, was held at
Newport on the 10th, 11th and 12th of July. The Hon. William
Dummer, Lt. Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of