ABSTRACT
Sixty-seven French, one Dutch, and five Spanish privateers were taken in the West Indies this year.
Upon the 22d of September, Captain Pigot, of the Hermione frigate, and all his officers, except the surgeon and one master's mate, were murdered, as well as most of the marines, in all forty persons, by the crew, who mutinied and carried the ship into La Guira. The mutiny was headed by Captain Pigot's own coxswain, who had been four years with him. He cut off the captain's head while he was asleep.
