London,
31 July. American newspapers published tidings from New York dated until 1 July
including an item dealing with a captured pirate schooner. In contrary to what
first was believed was the schooner brought up at Honduras not a North American
ship but a vessel built in the West Indies with a French master of Canada and
according to her papers she was of St. Thomas. The vessel was declared as a
prize and her crew of 12 men was send to the West Indies for a trial. While it
was believed that this couldn’t be the entire crew an armed detachment was send
to Keys where an additional 11 men were taken prisoner including a negro. The
latter declared that he was a crewmember of a British coaster captured by the
pirates off the coast of Mosquito and of which all crewmembers were killed
except he on condition that he became a pirate. The pirates were now in prison
at Honduras.
