Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1892-03-10

bnccaneer barcarailes with the can
mons flash and the crash Of splin,
tered timbers as the two ships fonghl
broadside to broadside and yard.
arm 70 yardarms Why, they would
make her the Queen Of Heaven
Well, she is on the way to it in on.
seof the word. That old woman
at Versailles, Madame Maintenon
has made her Duchess of Bretagne
She will have grand French princes
for suitors, but win she now write Z
that stalwart lover q heru ncros.
the seas. It Saint Mary's in Mary
land, to let him know how miracu
lously she has escaped the punish
ment to which the Holy Office con.
signed her, and that she is s'caste-
laine OF Bre3agne castle--to thai
"Ismail Malcolm, I" nephew Of Mont
bars, the chief of Buccaneers, an
accredited sagent Of James III. in
conspiracy against William Ill,
the de facto King of England ?
hope she viii. Spain has an agent
there and so has the Holy Office.
Between the two he may be caught
with reasonable correspondence in
his possession, sufticien. to send
him under the late English treaty
with Spain to a Spanish quemade-
70 or an English block. The re-
ward for that man now in Saint
Mary's must be doubled from one
million of dollars. 1t must be
raised to two million. Two mil
lions of dollars in hard money
would make old John Coode, black
guard rs he is, q fine English gen.
tleman. Money viii ever make an
English gentleman, but it cannot
make q Spanish nobleman. The
blood Of q prince who sat in coun-
ell with Kings flows in my veins
Kings who reigned in Spain when
the ancestors of English Kings
were Saxon swineherds, Norman
jockeys or German vine dressers-
and l am but o poor priest, in the
service of Almightr Gnd. --s =
have my work to do, and it will be
done. The rewards for the Bucca-
neer chiefs must be trebled. This
last act justifies it, but it must be so
changed as to mean their desrtuc-
tion-not their delivery in person
to Spanish tribunals-that clause
was o . under worse than crime.
There are now five Of them, includ-
ing the Duchess of Bretagne. Ten
million of dollars is none too much
collectively, and whether it is done
by fire, steel or poison the Justice Of
Spain is vindicated, and who will do
it but Louis XIV when he has filled
his Golfers by their aid to stave off
national bankruptcy or postpone
revolution"
Thus soliloquizing he journeyed
on. The shades of evening were
falling when he knocked at the gate
of the Capuchin monastery of Saint
Aubray on the evening of the 23rd
of April, 1890.
When admitted he had an inter
view with the Abbot. To him he
stated who he was, the mission upon
which he was sent by the Holy Of
flee and its failure so far as he knew
of the details and his incarceration
in Bretagne castle, and then re-
quested permission to remain there
until he could report to and receive
from the Holy Office q reply, all OF
which were readily granted. The
next day he wrote report to the
Holy Office, detailing all the incl
dents of the voyage of the "Santis-
sima Trinidada," from Paios until
the ship, q first-class ship Of the
line of 100 guns, and crew of 600
men, soldiers and marines, was cap
tured during q calm in Bascay bay
by q fleet of Breton fishermen at
MONDAY when all the officers and
crew were taking their MONDAY Sizes
ta-how the officers and crew were
stripped Of their clothing and thrown
overheard. all except himself, and
that he was carried to Bretagne Cas-
tie and there immured until the
ship went to and returned from San
Domingo to Bretagne castle, bring.
ing back Nativa, the Buccaneer sor.
ceress, unpunished and unharmed,
over whose s'auto de fe'' he was te
preside as Grand Inquisitor. .
How it was accomplished at San
Domingo he did not know, but il
was accomplished, and he requested