The Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1822-1822, 1822-06-06
From tie Mew- England GALAXY.

From tie Mew- Engaaad Goiary.
ROBERT KID n MONEY DIGGERs.
Is is high time that this ilIustrious
Sea-Rover should be taken from the
vile company, of the plundering, cold
and cruel assassins (where for more
than a century he has stood, in the vul-
gar opinion with Black Beard and Golf,
and Others, a ,scape-goat for ell that
was atrocicus and bloody, and placed
within the royal circle of associates,
where his glories first vegetated.
To those whoare in any degree read
in the English History, iii we'll known
that, during the war which ragged be.
tween them and the French prior to
the yearl697, and which was termina-
ted by the treaty of Ryswick, the West
India was greatly annoyed
by Pirates, men Influenced by all the
dia bolical passions. which characterize
the present race at Cuba g. elsewhere,
but much more powerful, more daring
ami every way more adventurous, they
visited our coast from the bay of Mexi.
co, to the st. Lawrence-made de.
scents wherever they pleased and plum
dered and captured at their will-but
a sall our settlements within the reach
OF their depredations were miserably
poor, thessf rosers generally chose to
visit them Lfriends and were uniform
kl1S6 Ghawith little or no en-
EiieLk iudyed MANAGE.
led to re6t in our
ports Skithout molessss p, and obtain
supplies.for their more iaspoktant expo
] ditions on the Spanish Main.
have a geography now open before
me, printed in 1909, just after the peri
cd of Kids enterprises, in which
Charleston in South Carolina is des.
oribed as having Is or Ii good h ouses
and as many miserable huts packed into
the streets, as sheltered $50 families.
In Virginia. Jamestown had 20 scatter
ing buildings, Williau.sburgh so. In
Maryland, Annapolis had 40 houses, and
Baltimore. 'a parcel of scattered hous-
not fit TO be called a town" In
Pennsylvania, Bristol, the capital of
the state. had so houses, Philadelphia,
ssdignifisd with the title of city, 1900.
built of brick, 2 or 5 stories high, with
many warehouses and wharves In
Jersey, Elizabeth town contained $50
families" a little town of
100 families"-''Perth Amboy. as fam
ilies, called a city, by which it ap-
pears what small places they dignity
with such names" New York CITY is
also said to contain about 500 houses.
and 4 churches, of which Trinity was
one described as ''a great church lately
built" tit was builtin l69S)-The coun-
ty of Duchess had less than 90 families.
and FIVE are allowed to erect a census
from the assessment rolls, and take the
city as q data, the whole state had a
population less than 10000. In Cons
necticut. s'there is no town of any note,
all the country beyond 10 miles back
from the sea is barren hills and morass
es u~ninhabited; here are bears, wolves,
deer, otter, muskrat, &c. and a strange
creature called a Moss, l2 feet high
and the tip of his horns 42 feet asun-
DER" In massachusetts, "Reading is a
good town, having one mill to grind
cora and another to SAP timber" Bos-
ton is the only place in all the British
domlnions in America which can be
called a city, as well by reason of its
opulency a. for the several handsome
buildings In it; both public and pri-
sate' as a Court house, market house,
aud SIR William Phipps house, several
spacious s%treess, and is said to contain
from oto = hundred Inhabitants; 8 or
4hundred ships load here in a year. so
that we may nationally conclude that
che pirate finding no temptation to plum
der, adopted the expedient of a peace.
able intercourse. fer purposes as | have
observed, much more important.
Those pirates under a pretended
"smrssssiea as privateers, cruising for