le" 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
Massachusetts Bay, President of the Court.

The thirty-six Pirates taken by Capt. Solgard, were tried, when
Charles Harris, who acted as captain, and 25 of his men, were
found guilty, and sentenced to suffer death, and 10 men were
acquitted on the ground of having been forced into their service.

_Execution of the Pirates._

On Friday the 19th of July, the 26 Pirates were taken to a place
in Newport, called Bull's Point, (now Gravelly Point,) within the
flux and reflux of the sea, and there hanged. The following are
their names:--Charles Harris, Thomas Linnicar, Daniel Hyde,
Stephen Mundon, Abraham Lacy, Edward Lawson, John Tomkins,
Francis Laughton, John Fisgerald, Wm. Studfield, Owen Rice, Wm.
Read, Wm. Blades, Tho's Hagget, Peter Cues, Wm. Jones, Edward
Eaton, John Brown, James Sprinkly, Joseph Sound, Charles Church,
John Waters, Tho's Powell, Joseph Libbey, Thomas Hazel, John
Bright.

The Pirates were all young men, most of them were natives of
England, Wm. Blades was from Rho