Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence, Vol. 4 of 6
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Excerpt from Celebrated Trials, and Remarkable Cases of Criminal Jurisprudence, Vol. 4 of 6: From the Earliest Records to the Year 1825 In the latter part of the seventeeth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, previously to the decided ascendancy of the British navy, every sea was infested with pirates, under different flags. I hey originated in the Atlantic, in the narrow policy of the Spaniards, in regard to the intercourse with their colonies; and to baffle this colonial system other nations winked at, and even countenanced these lawless freebooters, who, first tolerated as buccaniers, afterwards turned their arms against ships of all nations. The history presented in the following article, serves as a specimen of the entire race: - Roberts was second mate of a slave trader, but being captured by a pirate of the name of Davis, who commanded the Rover, he became one of his active men, and, on his leader being killed in an action with the Portuguese, he was elected commander of the piratical vessel, in 1720. According to Johnson, in his Lives of the Pirates Roberts was proposed as successor to Davis over a bowl, in a speech to the following effect: - "That it was not of any great signification who was dignified with the title: since, really and in truth, all good governments, and among them theirs, had the supreme power lodge with the community, who might doubtless depute and revoke as suited interest or humour. We are the original of this claim (says he,) and should a captain be so saucy as to exceed prescription at any time, why down with him! It will be a caution after he is dead to his successors, of what fatal consequence any sort of assuming may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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