"A case of this kind came to light only last week.  The _Kingston Trader_ of Bristol, with a very valuable cargo and five thousand pounds in specie, has been overdue about a month, and her consignees have been worrying me accordingly.  Last Friday a small turtling schooner arrived from the Windward Passages, reporting that they had seen a wreck ashore near Tete de Chien on the island of Tortuga, off the north-west coast of Saint Domingo.  They launched their pirogue, and succeeded in getting close enough to the wreck to identify her as the missing _Kingston Trader_, and also to ascertain that she had been on fire, most of her upper works having been consumed.  That is the third case of an almost identical kind that has occurred within the last two months, and I am convinced that it is the work of pirates.