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PIRACY AESTIMATION.
This Crime has for the objects of it's primary mischief in the first place other Ship Navigators the
Plunder'd ship, and usually of also a distinct set of people, the owners upon Land for Merchants of the
it's secondary the Ship some such people of the respective denominations of people as trade to that traffic in that quarter of the that
3d order, people of those denominations throughout the Globe —
Setting the enjoyment of the Criminals against the pecuniary suffering of the owners
there remains the personal suffering and alarm of the navigators added to the pecuniary and personal
alarms of the objects of the mischief of the second & 3d orders, for the clear ballance
of the mischief produced by this Crime.
Punishment — propose they should be sold for Slaves — all that were in the Vessel without distinction: to raise up a pressing in those who do not engage voluntary to oppose it. leaving the King's Pardon as the sole resource. The Price to be divided between the Crown & the Captors Specific murderers after surrender if tried at Sea to be punished by Death — If at Land - by Disfigurement before Vendition.
Why the Piratical States are not extirpated? & If done at all the most advantageous way to England would be to undertake it itself for money to be raised by the other Maritime powers by subscription Rival nations would not not cordially in conjunction — the unskillfulness of some would spread confusion through the whole armament — what would be worse, it might be corrected by the observation of our skillfulness
Morocco furnishes provisions to Gibraltar Honor not concerned when natives who stand as much upon their honor as ourselves in fact — honor only relative
PIRACY AEstimation.
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