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ving no other Boat to purſue, nor a Muſket, ready to fire, he got ſafe on Shore, and ran to the Governor with his Complaint, who immediately impriſoned thoſe already there, and ſent a Launch off to take the reſt out of the Ship.
The Swallow arrived at St. Thomas’s the Beginning of October following, where, on Mr. Rowry’s Remonſtrance, Application was made to the Portugueſe Governor of that Iſland, for a Surrendery of theſe five Engliſh Priſoners then in the Caſtle; but he not only peremptorily excuſed himſelf from it, as a Matter out of his Power, without particular Direction from the Court of Portugal; but withal inſinuated, that they had only taken Refuge there from the Hardſhips and Severity they had met with from their Maſter. The manner of Denial, and the avaritious Temper of the Gentleman, which I had Occaſion to be acquainted with, makes it very ſuſpicious, that he propoſed conſiderable Gains to himſelf; for if Mr. Rowry had not made ſuch an Eſcape to him, the Slaves had been his for little or nothing, as a Bribe to ſilence his Suſpicions, which any Man, leſs acute than he, muſt have had from the awkward and unſkilful Carriage of ſuch Merchants. But enough of this; perhaps he is not the only Governor abroad that finds an Intereſt in countenancing theſe Fellows.
An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
Philip Roche was born in Ireland, and from his Youth had been bred up to the Sea; he was a brisk genteel Fellow, of 30 Years of Age at the Time of his Death; one whoſe black and ſavage Nature didno
