Shelvocke, George; commands two privateers under a foreign commission, 75; goes to Ostend, 75; commissions altered to English, 76; commands _Speedwell_ under Clipperton in _Success_, 76; his hatred of Clipperton, 76; sails from Plymouth, 76; they separate in a gale, 77; he robs a Portuguese ship, 77-80; alleged mutiny, 80; runs far south, 80; his officer shoots an albatross, 81; Coleridge's albatross, 81; rounds Cape Horn and sights Chili, 81; lingers on the coast, 81; captures two small prizes, 81; his men are ambushed, 82; burns a prize, 82; sails for Juan Fernandez, 82; finds there record of Clipperton, 82; his disingenuousness, 83; takes two guano ships, 83; fires the town of Payta, 84; action with a large Spanish ship, 84-86; his officer's account of the action, 86, 87; is wrecked on Juan Fernandez, 89; builds a small ship, captures and exchanges into a prize, 90; unpleasant meeting with Clipperton, 90; they part on bad terms, 91; exchanges into another prize, 91; Spanish Governor announces peace, and demands return of prize, 91; he disregards, and quits, 91; in difficulties, contemplates surrender, but eventually sails for China in another prize, 91; his suspicious conduct at Whampoa, 92; returns home in an Indiaman, and is arrested for piracy, 92; proofs failing, is imprisoned for fraud, 92; escapes and leaves England, 92; writes an account of his voyage, 92; his officer writes a very different one, 92 _Sherdam_, 204 _Sibylle_ (British frigate), 256 Skinner, Captain John, 330-332 Slave Trade, English, 12, 13 Slave Trade, French, 242, 243, 247, 248 Smith, Captain Matthew, 246 Smith, William, 97 Smollett, Tobias, historian, 124 Smyrna, 234 _Solebay_, 95, 96 Somerville, Captain Philip, 318 Sonson (Sumatra), 256 Spanish Succession, War of, 47 Spanish treasure-ships, 35 _Speedwell_, 75, 76, 81, 84-87, 90 _Staremberg_, 75 _Stendard_, 234 Stradling, Captain, 37, 39, 40, 61 Stretton, Mr., 72 Stuart, Charles Edward (the young Pretender), 195 _Success_, 75, 78, 82, 88 Sumatra, 250, 256 _Sunderland_, 161 Surcouf, Nicholas (brother of Robert), 255