At night we took a small vessel loaded with wine and soap; we took some of the wine out of her, and sunk her, prisoners and all together.

July 1st, we got Deminal at the river of Nile, and went in and made three large ships and two small ones our prize without the least defence; but before we could board them all, most of the people went overboard and swam ashore; these vessels was loading with coffee and rice for Constantinople; we loaded the two largest with what was in the others, and sent them down to Leghorn, which made us short of hands, as alltogether now was seventy-five hands after we manned the two prizes.

The 2d, we sailed for Cerigo to get more hands, and burnt the ships we did not take. At four o'clock in the afternoon we took two good prizes, that came from Scandarson bound to Rhodes, with honey, hemp, and oil; we took what we wanted out of them, and sunk them, prisoners and all together. The 3d, we took a large ship loaded with sheep and cattle, Turks property, but Greek sailors; they entered on board us, then we took what we wanted out of the prize and sunk her. July 4th, we got into Cerigo; that same day we got our water on board and 30 more men. Next morning we were ready for sea, and at nine o'clock we sailed with a fair wind for Caramina. July 6th, we seen a large ship to leeward of us, which we gave chace to, and at 6 o'clock came up with her; she proved to be a Turk's ship, come from Alexandria bound to Constantinople, loaded with coffee, rice, and hemp; she had 28 guns and 200 Turks on board, which she engaged us for two hours and a half, then struck, having 23 hands killed and 19 wounded, and we had five killed and 13 wounded;

we took the prisoners on board of us, and sent 14 hands on board the prize and sent her down to Malta. July 7th, at six o'clock in the morning we put the prisoners to death; in the afternoon we spoke a Ragusa pollaccre, could give us no intelligence of any Turks. July 9th, we took a small galley that the Turks had sent out as a spy after us; she had 80 hands and small arms on board. The same afternoon we put all the Turks to death except one man, which we put ashore upon account of telling us where the Turkish fleet lay, and what situation they were in; he told us there was three sail of the line and five frigates, besides a great many xebecks in the island of Rhodes, only waiting for the Russians to go up the Arches to get behind them.

The 10th, we bore away for Syracusa in Sicily, to see if we could get any help to go with us before we should go up again. 11th, we spoke an English ship from Leghorn bound to Smyrna, who told us there was three Russian privateers there ready for sailing.

In the afternoon we spoke a Venetian ship from Genoa bound to Alexandria, but would not give us any news. July 12th, we fell in with two Malta frigates a cruizing.

The 13th, in the afternoon, got into Syracusa, where there was three Russian privateers ready for sea, one of 18 guns, and two of 20 guns each. The 14th, we got the water and provisions on board, and every thing reaady for sea. Next morning there came into the harbour two privateers from Trieste, and in the morning at 6 o'clock, there came in the three that was at Leghorn, which made us in number nine sail, the least of us mounted 16 guns, and the com.nodore 34; and now we thought ourselves

able to attack the Turkish fleet, although they had three sail of the line and five frigates, besides a number of small vessels. July 16th, we got every thing ready for sea. The 17th, we sailed at ten o'clock in the morning for the island of Malta. The 18th, we fell in with the two Malta frigates we had seen on the 12th, and they went up with us in hopes to meet the Turkish fleet; we cruized off the island of Rhodes for five days, but they never offered to come out; in the mean time one of the Malta frigates went into the harbour's mouth and fired at them lying at an anchor, but all to no purpose, for they would not come out. July 25th, we went round the south-west part of the island, where we sent all our boats ashore armed for stock; they could find nothing but goats, and them we took as much as we wanted, for there was plenty on the island. July 26th, we all parted company, some for the Barbary shore, and some for the coast of Syria and Egypt, and we for the coast of Morea.

The 27th, we spoke a Ragusa pollaccre, come from Venice bound for Smyrna, but could let us know nothing of any Turks. Next morning we seen a large ship close in under the land, which we made sail after, thinking she was a Turkish frigate, so we got every thing ready for engageing her. At 4 o'clock we came alongside of her; she proved to be a French frigate, which we spoke, and he told us he was looking out for a pirate that had done a deal of mischief on that coast, and gave us a description of her force and men,

when we made sail to the westward and the frigate to the eastward.

The 29th, we spoke a Venetian ship that had been chaced into Cerigo by this same pirate. 30th, we made the island of Cerigo, and cruized off there three days, and saw no vessel of no kind, which our captain said was on account of this pirate there was no vessel seen on the coast. But on the 3d August, we seen a large ship close into the west side of the island, which we steered after her, but to our misfortune found it was this pirate, for she engaged us from ten o'clock till half past three in the afternoon, then she hauled her colours down, after having 54 men killed and 43 wounded; she mounted 32 guns, nine and six-pounders, and had 378 men on board; but they were all of different nations, which made them very much confused in the time of action. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon we took all the prisoners on board of us, and confined them in the hold till next morning; then our captain examined them, which they confessed they had taken many vessels of all nations and killed the people, and sunk the vessels after having plundered them of every thing worth taking, which our captain told them they should all be put to the cruellest death ever could be invented; so we did, for next morning we got whips to the main-stay, and made one leg fast to the whip and the other fast to a ring bolt in the deck, and so quartered them, and hove them overboard; as for the wounded, we put them to death after they struck.*

The 6th of August we washed the

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ship fore and aft, above and below, and went into the island of Zanti, where we sent all our wounded men to the hospital.

Then we got every thing ready for sea again; but next morning there was an order came from the Russian consul at Trieste for us to come there, and join Commodore William Gelo. nour's squadron.

cade frigate, Captain Ottara, come from Leghorn, bound to Smyrna, we spoke her off the island of Corfu ; on our passage up the gulph of Venice we had fair weather. The 14th of August we got in, and after riding fif. teen days quarantine we got prattick, when the ship was ordered into the Mole to be repaired as quick as possible. In the mean time the English

The 11th, we spoke the Ambus

charge and the r wages, and got the plunder besides, which came to 950 dollars (2301.) a man, and was only

on board from the 1st December 1788, till the 6th of September 1789.

MY DEAREST CHILD,-I find such decays both in bodie and spirits, that I am sensible I cannot live long, therefore, so long as my judgment is entire, I think myself bound, both by the tyes of nature and affection, to leave you my best and last advices for your future conduct, since your tender age will not allow you to retain them, should I recommend them to you by word of mouth.

And as there is nothing in this world I leave that gives me so much anxiety as you, soe the thoughts of leaving you young, and that I shall thereby be deprived of the opportunity of informing you, according to the best of my waik understanding, what is fitt, and by my advice and influence restraining, when your youth may hurry you to what is wrong

The best advice, my dearest child, I can give (and I pray God may give you his grace to follow it) is, that

you remember your Creator in the days of your youth, and that you early acquent yourself with asking direction from him; and in order to obtain his favour, read the scriptures. carefully, and observe and follow what is there recommended, and abstain from what is forbidden, for in them you will find your duty to God, your neighbour, and yourself, distinctly set down; and let me earnestly recommend, my chiefest care, that you ever keep in remembrance your mortality, and that as you shall employ the short time you are to have in this world, soe you shall be either happy or miserable to all eternity: let me therefore intreat, with all the earnestness of a most affectionate father, that you would never feel the pleasures of a vain transitorie world in ballance with the eternal joys that God has prepared for all those that love, fear, and keep his commandments.

Next to God, I recommend your

duty to your mother; be sure to honour and respect her, and pay her the obedience due to a parent.

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As for your sisters, they being much older, its probable they may be married before you come to age; and as it is your duty, so it will be your interest to shew them and their husbands all the kindness and civilities you possibly can. Your brothers, - whether one or more, I recommend them to your particular care; therefore be to them as a father, love and protect them, look upon them and every thing concerns them as your own, for the more united you and they are, and all your other relations, the stronger will be your interest, Your estate I leave to you in a much bet ter condition than when I succeeded to it; I pray God may bless it to you, for it is his blessing can only make you and it prosper,

The lands I have purchased, and the provisions I am obliged to give my younger children, have been the occasion of my leaving you in debt; however, if your estate be tolerablie managed, I expect you may be free long before you be of age; but how does my heart tremble for you, when I consider your youth, and what a croud of flatterers will surround you, who will be apt to insinuate that you are possessed of a considerable estate, and it becomes you to live suitable to it!I shall now wish you to live according to your quality; but remember we are but stewards of the good things of this life God is pleased to bestow upon us, and that he will require an account how we have

employed the honours and riches he has given us for we receive not those to gratify our lust or ambition, but to give us greater opportunities of being serviceable to him, our country, and our friends.

I earnestly intreat, that when you come to the age of a man you would chuse the best company, and that you would avoid the company of gamesters; for had you an estate thrice as great as I leave you, it may soon be lost, and you brought consequently under great difficulties; besides, the gentlemen who go under that denomination are looked upon as cheats, and the very worst of men, and therefore not fitt company for you. I also desire you may not keep running horses, for that necessarily leads you to converse with jockies and grooms; the first only profess cheatery, and the others fit only for your servants, and not proper for your companions.

You will perhaps remember, my dearest child, that I endeavoured to inform you of the great advantage learning would be to you; surely nothing distinguisheth so much a man of quality from the vulgar as knowledge, therefore I earnestly recommend to you not to mispend your younger years in idleness, but carefully employ them in learning Latin and French; it would be of unspeakable advantage to you, would you, when you come to more years, employ some part of your time in the studie of the civil and the Scots law.

You come to live in a time, my chiefest care, when the right of these

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