had happened to my vessel; and
was still full of his determination to pursue the pirates until he got
some revenge for the injuries he had received from them. After the
vessel was repaired I took on board four thousand six hundred dollars
belonging to my owners, and returned with the Allen to New-York. About
one year after, I visited Kingston on my way home from the Spanish Main.
When I inquired after Captain Fiatt, whom I left in the Renegade, an
English naval officer informed me that while cruising he landed with his
boat and crew on the Isle of Pines, and was missing for some time, when
another man-of-war's boat was sent in search of him. When the officer
and boat's crew landed on the Island they found the bodies of Captain
Fiatt and his boat's crew strewed on the ground, riddled with balls, and
the captain so horribly and vulgarly mangled as showed that none but
fiends could have been guilty of murdering them.

To give the reader some idea of the horrible atrocities committed by the
pirates at that time, I have thought proper to insert the following
account, copied from _The Evening Post_ of April 15th, 1822:

"_Commodore Porter's Squadron._

"_Piracies._--The last news that has been received from this
squadron is contained in the New-York papers extracted from the
_St. Thomas' Times_ of March 5. On the 4th the squadron got
under weigh and put to sea from St. Thomas'. Piracies of an
enormity that the bare recital of them make the blood run cold,
are continually taking place. A Dutch Brig was taken in sight
of Moro Castle, at Havanna. The French Brig La Jeune Henrietta
was taken on the 17th of March, the captain, passengers, and
all the crew were most cruelly beaten, and they and the vessel
robbed. The Schooner Success, from Matanzas, bound to New
Providence, was captured and converted into an assistant
pirate, two ladies, passengers, made prisoners, one of whom was
hanged up till life was almost extinct, in order to make her
confess where the money on board was secreted. The Dutch Brig
Minerva was captured and burned. The Brig Columbia, from
Washington, North Carolina, was captured, robbed of parts of
her cargo and sails. The Brig Alert, from New Orleans, was
boarded off the Moro by three boats, the captain and cook
killed, and one man mortally wounded. A brig has lately arrived
from the Balize, belonging to