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On Thursday last [April 20] arrived here from England, his Majesty's ship Hind, Capt. Garnier, having put in here for a pilot; her destination is to be between St. Eustatius and the Dog and Pickley-pear, to prevent the American vessels trading to St. Eustatius.
Date: 22 April 1775
Volume: Volume 1
A storeship bound to New York, has been taken and carried into Port Pietre, Guadaloupe; part of her lading has been retaken by the Seaford, in a vessel bound to Martinico. We suppose the Admiral has sent to demand her, which whether complied with or not, will bring our good friends the French to an explanation.
Date: 9 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
We have collected the following particulars from persons lately arrived from the Windward Islands, and from English papers.
The pirates have cut two vessels out of Tobago, and there are 26 pirate vessels out of Martinico, cruising to windward, for the outward bound ships, chiefly manned with Frenchmen; one of these pirates, who took a brig from Cork, after a short engagement, had not a single man...
Date: 12 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
So eager are the French for piracy, that many Planters in Martinico have sold their property, and vested it in pirate vessels with the permission of their Governor. In short St. Pierre is full of pirates and their prizes. Had ever British thunder a more proper object than the destruction of such a thievish place? Or could any gov~rnor deserve the exaltation of Haman more than he, who, in a vile...
Date: 16 April 1777
Volume: Volume 8
Please to acquaint My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that I sailed Yesterday in the Portland from English Harbour Antigua, with Intention to Visit the Different Islands on the Station, having the Ariadne and Cygnet in Company [(the latter had just brought into English Harbour the Oliver Cromwell Privateer taken by Captain [James] Jones of His Majesty's Sloop Beaver)] and seeing a Sloop in...
Date: 15 June 1777
Volume: Volume 9