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On shore they ^ vere pursued ; many were killed resisting , and eight were captured / one of whom was described as having fought with maniac fury , and only when he was struck down , and several men rushied upon him , could the party take him . They were brought to S and given up to the civil authority to await their trial . The evidence was so strong against them , that chance of escape there was none . The day came , and , attracted
by curiosity , I went to the court-house , which I found quite full . The trial was proceeding , and it was long ere I > by dint of perseverance and watching openings , edged myself so far through the crowd as to obtain a glimpse of the prisoners . Some had their heads bent down , lying on their open palms on the bar before them , evidently enduring great mental suffering . The backs of all were towards me yet . Two stood beside each other
erect , as I saw on squeezing further forward , with their hands in their bosoms , scowling defiance from their eyes , and grinning recklessness and scorn from their closed teeth and curling lips on the court . There was one , an Englishman , not twenty-two years of age , of very regular , indeed beautiful features , and blond e glossy hair , wnich hung down his cheeks in those long spiral curls , the culture of which is a matter of solicitude to many
seafaring youths . His cheeks were clear and somewhat rosy , not at all bronzed or ingrained by climate or weather ; and the light eyebrows and lashes gave to his full blue eyes that soft , kindly , but melancholy character which frequently accompanies them . Not a line nor furrow on the face or forehead was to be perceived —not the least physiognomical tinge of violence or hardness was discernible ; it was rather the countenance of a healthy , but not
at all happy girl . Of his danger he seemed to be utterly unconscious ,, or unimpressed by it ; but he attended to the proceedings with intense and eager earnestness , following with his eyes each witness and each movement in the court , and listening to all as it he were entirely engrossed by the deep interest of a novel and singular scene in which his character , welfare , or life , were
otherways totally unconcerned . He it was who had resisted capture with such extraordinary ferocity . He had no name—he would give no name ; none of his companions knew him by any , or else * they refused to speak ; and when his contumaciousness was alluded to , and the judge urged him to say what he was called , f
he replied gently , and almost deferentially , Call me Jack Smith or Bill Jortes , —anything will do ; you cannot get mine , I hope . ' This is all I ever saw or knew of him . Who are they—where are they—whose hearta have hung in leaden sadness , or have Eal pitated and throbbed in torturing uncertainty on his account ? wiaps there are such ! And though he is not immediately or
Necessaril y connected with the purpose of my story , perhaps the teader will pardon this notice of him * It is not a little remark * tifta that the only other pirate I over saw ( in my knowledge , at
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in Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice . 793
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 793, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/47/
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