The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-02

kA WAACu VO HkVN$SA M NCW AOH@e Au0 there ascertain the sentiments of gov, ernment with respect to his proceed. inxs before closing Ass voyage H. purchased the sloop of Bolton and lef' that individual in charge of the Qui- dah Merchant to await his return He, however, carried with him many valuable goods and considerable treas ure.
 "About the lst of June, 1899, Kidd entercd with his sloop and about forty men in Delaware bay. He sent his boat ashore at the Horekills, where he was supplied with what he wanted, and the people frequently went aboard his vessel, giving him information of the actual state of things then existing in tho colonies. Some of his men let( him at this place, but several were afterward taken-some of them at Burlington, N. l., and others In Penn- sylvania and Maryland. Kidd then, with a fatuity which seems unacoount- able, unless we suppose he thought himself able to vindioate his conduct, took his sloop and treasure to the east end of Long Island, from which local ity he designed to open negotiations with Lord Bellamont.
 "Having given notice of his arrival to his friends in New York, one of them, named Emott, was sent to hlm, through whom he opened corres- pondenoe with Lord Bellamont, then In Boston. Through Emott, Kidd made known to Bellamont his exist ing circumstances at Long Island that he had lett tho Moorish ship 'Qui,iah Merchant in crock on the coast of Hispaniola, with goods of the value of S0,00o pounds that he had bought sloop, In which he was come to make his terms, having on board of her several bales of East India goods, to pounds weight of gold dust and ingots, about 100 weight of silver, besides other things which he believed would sell tor about 10000 pounds. He protested his own innocence, and asserted that he would make 1t appear that his men forced him, locking him up in the cabin of the 'Adventure' galley whilst they robbed two or three ships, and that he could prove this by many witnesses.
 "The earl of Bellamont answered Kidd's agent (EmotD that Kidd might safely make his appearance In Boston, if he could make his innocence appear, and gave further appearance of his pacific intentions by writing a letter to Kidd to the same effect, which letter he dispatched by Scotchman named Campbell, resident In New York and personal friend of Kidd, who, at the latter's request, had visited Boston with a view to intercede for him and procure him fair hearing.
 "Threc or four days subseq uently Campbell returned, bringing Kidd's answer, in which, aftor reiterated pro- testations of his innocence, he prom ised to bring his sloop to Boston with out delay. Kidd arrived in Boston on the lst of July, 1899, and appeared, upon request, before the earl and pro. vincial council, where he underwent a series of examining interviews. The nature of these does not transpire; bu t on the 9th of July Kidd was sent to prison, and commission was ap- pointed to take charge of his effects.
 "Information of his arrest was sent to England (where the matter was then the subject of great political OK . citement,) and 1t was suggested that piracy, not being a capital crime in America, Kidd and other captured pirates should be sent for and tried in England; to which end orders were soon after dispatched, and a ship of war, under Rear Admiral Benbow was dispatched to bring the pirates across the ocean.
 "it is supposed that by this time Kidd was forced to appreciate his po- sition and to foresee his danger, for he was on all sides surrounded by enc- mics. On the one hand, Lord Bella mont, who had involved the stability of the great Whig party in England by bringing It's leading members, and even the king himself, into direct pe- cuniary connection with an expedition which had beyond doubt resulted in a piratical voyage. could not cncour- age Kidd in any manner without lay ing himself open to the tAunts and animadversions which were already flung at him from his opponents; and on the other hand were the opposite faction even to admit the possibility of kida's innocence, they would lose the political capital thus afforded, the strength of which depended solely upon Khd's personal guilt, as 1t was with him alone the grea. fanctionarlea had held correspondence.
 "Admiral Benbow left America about June 1, i70o, with his prisoners, nine in number, among whom were Captain Kidd, Robert Bradenham, his surgeon, one Brown (s piraticai sd- venturer, who had married q daughter