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id: 44471
author: Rogers, Woodes
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title:
  Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner

summary:
  It was more than thirty years later that Lord Anson sailed a similar voyage round the world with the advantage of the experience of Rogers and others, while Anson's squadron was fitted, manned, and armed by Government: yet, considering the loss of life and material which marked that cruise, it seems to me that, judged by results, Rogers' voyage was a far more wonderful performance, and that it attracted some attention at the time is shown by a notice of it in Captain Berkley's Naval History, (published, 1756), where, under the heading of Conduct of the Bristol Privateers, he says, we have read in very pompous language the names of those who, with great ships and great preparations, encompassed the Globe. These are, of course, placed in irons with the rest, Captain Rogers judiciously creating a new boatswain, in the room of Giles Cash, who, being a most dangerous fellow, I agreed with the master of the Crown Galley, then in company, to carry for me in irons to Madera, which extreme measure was taken because on September the 14th a sailor follow'd by near half the ship's company came aft to the steerage door, and demanded the boatswain out of irons; on which, says Rogers, I desired him to speak with me on the quarter deck, which he did, where, the officers assisting, I seiz'd him (_i.e._, tied him up) and made one of his chief comrades whip him, which method I thought best for breaking any unlawful friendship amongst themselves, which, with different correction to other offenders, allay'd this tumult, so that now they began to submit quietly and those in irons to beg pardon and promise amendment.


id: 50814
author: Wright, Quincy
title: Prize Money
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words: 32035
sentence: 2060
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Grotius has nothing to say of prize laws in maritime warfare. The earliest printed copy is dated 1494 and is also in the Catalonian language.[7] The chapters on prize law, state the principles on which enemy property may be captured.


id: 47290
author: Johnstone, Herrick
title: Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer; or, The Cruise of the Queer Fish
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words: 35817
sentence: 1769
flesch: 79
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summary:
  The rest of the Britishers immediately sprung forward to avenge their comrade's fall; and, as I couldn't stand by and see little Tony overpowered, I also went in. They numbered a dozen stout fellows, each armed with a musket, led on in solid column by little Tony Trybrace.


id: 26960
author: Johnston, Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd)
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words: 91160
sentence: 5847
flesch: 85
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title:
  Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure

summary:
  The _Richard_ held over toward the first two ships until he saw that it was the _Alliance_ and a prize she had taken about daylight,--a vessel bound for Jamaica, from London. (_See page 273._)]


id: 21065
author: Collingwood, Harry
title: The Log of a Privateersman
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sentence: 2884
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Man, man! When we knocked off work at noon, to go to dinner, our work was completed; and as Mr White had taken care to secure our letters-of- marque in good time, it was determined that the _Dolphin_ should proceed to sea that same evening, the crew having already signed articles, and been warned to hold themselves in readiness for a start at a moment's notice.


id: 36475
author: Statham, Edward Phillips
title: Privateers and Privateering
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words: 96931
sentence: 3006
flesch: 61
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summary:
  Fame_ privateer, 127, 128; his plan of cruising, 128, 129; captures a large French privateer, 129; his success causes bitter feeling against him at Malta, 129, 130; a vessel specially fitted out to take him, 130; captures and brings her into Malta, 131; his sense of humour, 131; captures a ship under safe-conduct from George II., 132; submits to the Admiral's judgment and restores her, 132; seizes two French ships with Turkish cargoes, 133; action of the Turkey Company, 133; refuses to refund prize-money, 133; imprisoned in Italy, 133, 134; gives bail to answer the charge, 134; emerges triumphant--his dignified reply, 134; engages in commerce with William Hutchinson, 134; war being imminent, builds a vessel at Leghorn, 135; vigilance of Italian authorities, 135, 136; his plan to outwit them, 136; rewards offered for his capture, 137; fights a large French privateer sent out to waylay him, 137-139; disables her and returns with convoy to Leghorn, 139; is detained there by force, 139; liberated by two English war-ships, 140; his unfair treatment at Malta, 140; sails round a big French privateer, 140; refused admission to Leghorn, 141; unaccountably disappears, 141; suggestion of political intrigue, 141; the romantic story of Selim and Zaida, 142-144; unhappily exiled from England, 144; other references, 117, 152 _ Less than two years later the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty called before them a certain Captain Phillips, master mariner, commanding the _Alexander_ privateer; and the following is the minute of the interview, officially recorded: 29 April, 1746.


id: 21576
author: Marryat, Frederick
title: The Privateersman
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words: 121282
sentence: 4433
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Yes, if they are good men and true. I also discovered that, if they succeeded, it was their intention to kill their own captain and such men of the slaver who would not join them, and scuttle their own vessel, which was a very old one.


id: 29894
author: Sue, Eugène
title: A Romance of the West Indies
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sentence: 5493
flesch: 75
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summary:
  This unhappy man, thought the chevalier, has not the slightest idea of the danger he runs; it is a pity to disabuse his blindness; it is like striking a child; it is snaring a sitting pheasant; it is killing a sleeping man; on the honor of De Croustillac, it gives me scruples. her wine is so good, her service so fine, her servants so attentive--if she is worth three or four millions, I consent to take the risk my predecessors did, and to make the widow happy, on the honor of De Croustillac!


id: 26045
author: Castle, Egerton
title: The Light of Scarthey: A Romance
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sentence: 7657
flesch: 79
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summary:
  And, at the time when Sir Adrian Landale, of Pulwick, eighth baronet, adopted it as his residence, it was far from being such. Sir Adrian Landale, in his sea-girt fastness, still absorbed in dreams of bygone days, loosed his grasp of faithful René's shoulder and fell to pacing the chamber with sombre mien; while René, to whom these fits of abstraction in his master were not unfamiliar, but yet to his superstitious peasant soul, eerie and awe-inspiring visitations, slipped unnoticed from his presence.


id: 36306
author: Warburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
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flesch: 65
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title:
  Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York

summary:
  I am sorry, gentlemen, to detain you on the question; but it is a most important one--one that enters into the very marrow of this case; and we do claim that the issuing of this commission, whether on the footing of its having been issued by a _de facto_ Government, or by authority from the State, considering it as remaining under the Constitution, was a commission that forms a protection to the defendants, and one which is not within the purview of the Act of 1790; because it was not, in the language of that section, a commission taken by a citizen of the United States to cruise against other citizens of the United States, either from a _foreign_ Prince or State, or a person merely. The Confederation you may call illegal and improper, but it is a Confederation _de facto_; its right may be questioned, but it is a _de facto_ Government, with this gentleman presiding over it, and performing the duties which, as the Ruler of a great nation, devolve upon him--bringing out armies by hundreds of thousands, bringing out treasures by the million,--and yet you are to say it has no color of authority.


