_To a trading Nation, nothing can be so Destructive as Pyracy, or call for more exemplary Punishment; besides, the national Reflection it infers: It cuts off the Returns of Industry, and those plentiful Importations that alone can make an Island flourishing; and it is your Aggravation, that ye have been the Chiefs and Rulers in these licentious and lawless Practices._ _However, contrary to the Measures ye have dealt, ye have been heard with Patience, and tho' little has, or possibly could, have been said in Excuse or Extenuation of your Crimes, yet Charity makes us hope that a true and sincere Repentance_ (_which we heartily recommend_) _may entitle ye to Mercy and Forgiveness, after the Sentence of the Law has taken Place, which now remains upon me to pronounce._ Y_OU_ Dav. Simpson, William Magnes, R. Hardy, Tho. Sutton, Christopher Moody, _and_ Val. Ashplant. _Ye, and each of you, are adjudged and sentenced, to be carried back to the Place from whence ye came, from thence to the Place of Execution, without the Gates of this Castle, and there within the Flood-Marks, to be hanged by the Neck till ye are dead._ _After this, ye, and each of you shall be taken down, and your Bodies hanged in Chains._ Warrant for Execution. P_URSUANT to the Sentence given on_ Saturday, _by the Court of Admiralty, at_ Cape-Corso-Castle, _against_ Dav. Simpson, Wm. Magnes, R. Hardy, Tho. Sutton, Christopher Moody, _and_ Valentine Ashplant. _You are hereby directed to carry the aforesaid Malefactors to the Place of Execution, without the Gates of this Castle, to Morrow Morning at Nine of the Clock, and there within the Flood-Marks, cause them to be hanged by the Neck till they are dead, for which, this shall be your Warrant. Given under my Hand, this_ 2_d Day of_ April 1722. _To_ Joseph Gordyn, _Provost-Marshal._ Mungo Heardman. _The Bodies remove in Chains, to the Gibbets already erected on the adjacent Hillocks._ M. H. _William Phillips._ IT appeared by the Evidence of Captain _Jo. Trahern_, and _George Fenn_, Mate of the King _Solomon_, that this Prisoner was Boatswain of the same Ship, when she was attacked and taken off Cape _Appollonia_, the 6th of _January_ last, by the Pyrate's Boat.