One sailor, an Irishman, is talking to one of the Plymouth whaleboat pirates captured this morning. A cannon is between the two men, and when a cannon is between two men, that is what they talk about. 'This is Wapping Wendy, or W.W., or dub-dub as we sometimes dub her in the heat of battle, though you may call her ‘darling' or ‘love of my life' but never ‘Wayward Wendy' as that lot – ' glowering at the crew of another gun, 'Mr. Foote,' " – like to defame her.'