Spaniard captured, but treasure already landed, 186; ungenerous conduct of his owners, 186; deprived of his ship, 186; goes home in packet, 186; saves her from a pirate, 187; is imprisoned for debt, 187; his integrity, 187; his death, 187; other references, 96, 116, 117, 194, 280 Waller, Edmund, the poet, 153 Walpole, Horace, 125 Wapping, 46 Warren, Captain, 216 Warren, Sir Peter, 98 _Warwick_, 98 Wassenaer, Baron de, 225 Welbe, George, 38 Welch, an Irish captain of a French privateer, 212 Wentworth, Sir John (Governor of Nova Scotia), 337 Weymouth, 164 _Weymouth_, 74 Whampoa, 91 White, Captain William, 334, 336 _Whiting_, 307 Whittaker, Admiral Sir Edward, 238 Whyte, Captain Thomas, 28-32 Williamson, Secretary, 11 Wilson, Captain William, 323 Winchester, Bishop of, 24, 25 _Windsor Castle_ packet, 354-357 _Worcester_, 226, 228 Wordsworth, William, the poet, 81 Wright, Fortunatus, a great English privateer captain; his father, 123; his epitaph, 124; allusion by Smollett, 124; settles in Liverpool, 125; retires and lives abroad, 125; his adventures at Lucca, 125-127; settles at Leghorn, 127; war with France, 127; depredations of French privateers, 127; commands the _Fame_ privateer, 127, 128; his plan of cruising, 128, 129; captures a large French privateer, 129; his success causes bitter feeling against him at Malta, 129, 130; a vessel specially fitted out to take him, 130; captures and brings her into Malta, 131; his sense of humour, 131; captures a ship under safe-conduct from George II., 132; submits to the Admiral's judgment and restores her, 132; seizes two French ships with Turkish cargoes, 133; action of the Turkey Company, 133; refuses to refund prize-money, 133; imprisoned in Italy, 133, 134; gives bail to answer the charge, 134; emerges triumphant--his dignified reply, 134; engages in commerce with William Hutchinson, 134; war being imminent, builds a vessel at Leghorn, 135; vigilance of Italian authorities, 135, 136; his plan to outwit them, 136; rewards offered for his capture, 137; fights a large French privateer sent out to waylay him, 137-139; disables her and returns with convoy to Leghorn, 139; is detained there by force, 139; liberated by two English war-ships, 140; his unfair treatment at Malta, 140; sails round a big French privateer, 140; refused admission to Leghorn, 141; unaccountably disappears, 141; suggestion of political intrigue, 141; the romantic story of Selim and Zaida, 142-144; "unhappily exiled" from England, 144; other references, 117, 152 _Yarmouth_, 281; treatment of American prisoners on board, 287-289 York, Bishop of, 24 Zaida, a Moorish maiden, 142-144 _Zephyr_, 116