Desfargas, LA, 1820 May 25

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cluding him who has been pardoned and set at liberty) are -
the most abandoned villains that could be collected out of
all the prisons and galleys in Europe and America. The
lenity which the President has extended towards them may
not nevertheless have been injudiciously interposed, It
would be a revolting spectacle for 18 human beings to
suffer death at once by the hand of the executioner, But
if a visible reformation cannot be wrought upon then, it

would be a reprehensible act to set them loose upon soci-=
ety.'" COURIER, Charleston, SCy 6-23-1820 (2236)

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eluding him who has been pardoned and set at liberty) are
the most abandoned villains that could be collected out of
all the prisons and galleys in Europe and America. The
lenity which the President has extended towards them may
not nevertheless have been injudiciously interposed, It
would be a revolting spectacle for 18 human beings to
suffer death at once by the hand of the executioner, But
if a visible reformation cannot be wrought upon then, it
would be a reprehensible act to set them loose upon soci-
ety.'" COURIER, Charleston, SC, 6-23=1820 (2:30)

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the most abandoned villains that could be colnet eG
all the prisons and galleys in Europe and America, The
lenity which the President has extended towards them may
not nevertheless have been injudiciously interposed. It
would be a revolting spectacle for 18 human beings to
suffer death at once by the hand of the executioner, But
if a visible reformation cannot be wrought upon them, it
would be a reprehensible act to set them loose oe soci-

ety.'" COURIER, Charleston, SC, 6-23-1820 (2:36)

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" DESFARGES, and JOHNSON,

"The Louisiana Advertiser of May 27 states that Desfarges
and Johnson, the former captain and the latter first mate
of the schooner Bravo were exectited at New Orleans for
piracy on May 25, 1820."

HILLSBOROUGH RECORDER, Billsborough, Ne C., 6-28-1820

"Speaking of the recent execution at New Orleans, of the
Captain and First Lieutenant of the Piratical schooner
BRAVO, the editor of one of the papers of that city says =
'Desfargues was a young man of 22, and appeared to have
been well educateds he was a native of Bordeaux, where, it
is said, his connexions occupy a respectable station in

s ociety. Johnson, it is reported, was a sailing master
in the British navy, The remainder of the cul prits (in-

“DESFARGES, and JOHNSON,

"The Louisiana Advertiser of May 27 states that Desfarges
and Johnson, the former captain and the latter first mate
of the schooner Bravo were exectited at New Orleans for
piracy on May 25, 1820."

HILLSBOROUGH RECORDER, Rillsborough, N.C.» 6-28-1820

"Speaking of the recent execution at New Orleans, of the
Captain and First Lieutenant of the Piratical schooner
BRAVO, the editor of one of the papers of that city says =
'Desfargues was a young man of 22, and appeared to have
been well educated; he was a native of Bordeaux, where, it
is said, his connexions occupy a respectable station in

s ociety. Johnson, it is reported, was a sailing master

in the British navy, The remainder of the cul prits (ine

" DESFARGES , and JOHNSON,

"The Louisiana Advertiser of May 27 states that Desfarges
and Johnson, the former captain and the latter first mate
of the schooner Bravo were exectted at New Orleans for
piracy on May 25, 1820."

HILLSBOROUGH RECORDER, Billsborough, N. C., 6-28-1620
"Speaking of the recent. execution at New Orleans, of the
Captain and First Lieutenant of the Piratical schooner
BRAVO, the editor of one HEE ies Se 2 oo
'Desfargues was a young man of 22, and appeared to have

been well educated; he was a native of Bordeaux, aes it
is said, his connexions occupy a respectable station in
society. Johnson, it is reported, was a sailing master
in the British navy. The remainder of the cul prits (an-

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