FERNANDEZ, Nicholas. Dying Declaration of Nicholas Fernandes, Who with Nine others were Executed in front of Cadiz Harbour, December 29, 1829. [New York], 1830. Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut title vignette and woodcut illustration in text (notations to recto of frontispiece). Later remboitage binding (crudely executed). "Without any other motives than to gratify a such like hellish propensity (in our intoxicated moments) blood was not unfrequently and unnecessarily shed, and many widows and orphans probably made..." (p. 10). "A few days after the capture and destruction of the English ship, we fell in with a richly laden American ship (the Topaz) bound from Calcutta to Boston, to the crew of which no more mercy was shewn than to that of the Morning Star..." (p. 17). Nicholas Fernandez and others were sentenced: "...to be hung, quartered and their heads to be placed on hooks on the sea shore." (p. 21).
FERNANDEZ, Nicholas. Dying Declaration of Nicholas Fernandes, Who with Nine others were Executed in front of Cadiz Harbour, December 29, 1829. [New York], 1830. Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut title vignette and woodcut illustration in text (notations to recto of frontispiece). Later remboitage binding (crudely executed). "Without any other motives than to gratify a such like hellish propensity (in our intoxicated moments) blood was not unfrequently and unnecessarily shed, and many widows and orphans probably made..." (p. 10). "A few days after the capture and destruction of the English ship, we fell in with a richly laden American ship (the Topaz) bound from Calcutta to Boston, to the crew of which no more mercy was shewn than to that of the Morning Star..." (p. 17). Nicholas Fernandez and others were sentenced: "...to be hung, quartered and their heads to be placed on hooks on the sea shore." (p. 21).

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FERNANDEZ, Nicholas. Dying Declaration of Nicholas Fernandes, Who with Nine others were Executed in front of Cadiz Harbour, December 29, 1829. [New York], 1830. Woodcut frontispiece, woodcut title vignette and woodcut illustration in text (notations to recto of frontispiece). Later remboitage binding (crudely executed). "Without any other motives than to gratify a such like hellish propensity (in our intoxicated moments) blood was not unfrequently and unnecessarily shed, and many widows and orphans probably made..." (p. 10). "A few days after the capture and destruction of the English ship, we fell in with a richly laden American ship (the Topaz) bound from Calcutta to Boston, to the crew of which no more mercy was shewn than to that of the Morning Star..." (p. 17). Nicholas Fernandez and others were sentenced: "...to be hung, quartered and their heads to be placed on hooks on the sea shore." (p. 21).

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