of Spain, but as Pyrates, finding it a Part of your Religion in this Place to protect ſuch Villains.
Off the River Trinidado,
Feb. 8. 1720.Your humble Servant,
Joſeph Laws.
The Anſwer of one of the Alcaldes to Mr. Laws’s Reply.
Captain Laws,
‘You may aſſure your ſelf, I will never be wanting in the Duty of my Poſt. The Priſoners that are here are not in Priſon, but only kept here to be ſent to the Governor of the Havana: If you (as you ſay) command at Sea, I command on Shoar: If you treat the Spaniards, you ſhould happen to take, as Pyrates, I will do the ſame by every one of your People I can take up: I will not be wanting to good Manners, if you will do the ſame. I can likewiſe act the Soldier, if any Occaſion ſhould offer that way, for I have very good People here for that purpoſe. If you pretend any Thing elſe, you may execute it on this Coaſt. God preſerve you. I kiſs your Hand.
Trinidado,
Feb. 20. 1720.Signed,
Bennette Alfonſo del Menzano.
The laſt Advices we have received from our Plantations in America, dated June 9th, 1724, gives us the following Account, viz. That Captain Jones in the Ship John and Mary, on the 5th of the ſaid Month, met with, near the Capes of Virginia, a Spaniſh Guard del Coaſt, commanded by one Don Benito, ſaid to be commiſſioned by the Governor of Cuba: She was manned with 60 Spaniards, 18 French Men and 18 Engliſh, and had an Engliſh Captain as well as Spaniſh, one Richard Holland, who formerly belonged to the Suffolk Man of War, which
