Hotel Angelini. Opposite the P. R. R. Passenger Station. 쉬이 No Cooler place in the City. Large and Well-ventilated Rooms. FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT IN CONNECTION. Hotel electric lighted throughout. All Modern Arrangements. Baggage Transported Free to and from Railroad Station. Prices Moderate. Superior Service. Special Rates for Families. Principal Languages Spoken. CONVENIENT FOR TOURISTS. Luis Angelini, Proprietor. Hotel Angelini. Frente á la Estación Nueva del Ferrocarril. Uno de los puntos más ventilados de la ciudad. Cuartos Espaciosos y Bien Ventilados. RESTAURANTE DE PRIMER ORDEN. Luz Eléctrica en todos los cuartos y Transporte Gratis de Equipajes del Hotel á la Estación y viceversa. PRECIOS MODICOS Y CONVENCIONALES PARA FAMILIAS. Servicio Esmerado. Se Hablan los Principales Idiomas. Luis Angelini, Propietario. Morgan's Threat against Old Panama. 37 Morgan's Threat Against Old Panama. The Governor of Panama perceived by this answer that no means would serve to mollify the hearts of the Pirates, nor reduce them to reason. Hereupon he determined to leave them; as also those of the city, whom he came to relieve, involved in the difficulties of making the best agreement they could with their enemies. Thus, in few days more, the miserable citizens gathered the contribution wherein they were fined, and brought the entire sum of one hundred thousand pieces of eight to the Pirates, for a ransom of the cruel captivity they were fallen into. But the President of Panama, by these transactions, was brought into an extreme admiration, considering that four hundred men had been able to take such a great city, with so many strong castles; especially seeing that they had no pieces of cannon. nor other great guns, wherewith to raise batteries against them. And what was more, knowing that the citizens of Porto Bello had always great repute of being good soldiers themselves, and who had never wanted courage in their own defence. This astonishment was so great, that it occasioned him, for to be satisfied herein, to send a messenger to Capt. Morgan, desiring him to send him some small pattern of those arms wherewith he had taken with such violence so great a city. Capt. Morgan received this messenger very kindly, and treated him with civility. Which being done, he gave him a pistol and a few small bullets of lead, to carry back to the President, his Master, telling him withal: He desired him to accept that slender pattern of the arms wherewith he had taken Porto Bello, and keep them for a twelvemonth; after which time he promised to come to Panama and fetch them away. The Governor of Panama returned the present very soon to Capt. Morgan giving him thanks for the favour of lending him such weapons as he needed not, and withal sent him a ring of gold with this message: That he desired him not to give himself the labour of coming to Panama as he had done to Porto Bello; for he did not certify to him, he should not speed so well here as he had done there. Departure of the Pirates. After these transactions, Capt. Morgan (having provided his fleet with all necessaries, and taken with him the best guns of the castles, nailing the rest which he could not carry away) set sail from Porto Bello with all his ships With these he arrived in few days at the Island of Cuba, where he sought out a place wherein with all quiet and repose he might make the dividend of the spoil they had got. They found in ready morey two hundred and fifty thousand pieces of eight, (1) besides all other merchandizes, as cloth, linen, silks, and other goods. With this rich booty they sailed again thence to their common place of rendezvous, Jamaica. Being arrived, they passed here some time in all sorts of vices and debauchery, according to their common manner of doing, spending with huge prodigality what others had gained with no small labour and toil. THE FALL OF OLD PANAMA, 1671. Upon the conclusion of a treaty of peace in 1670 between England and Spain, which confirmed the former in her possessions in the West Indies, but forbade her subjects to trade to any Spanish port without a license; a proclamation was issued in pursuance of such arrangement which greatly exasperated the freebooting community, and the direct result of which was an assemblage of the largest fleet ever brought together by the buccaneers, amounting to 37 ships of all sizes, manned by more than (1) The coin" piece of eight" had the value of eight Spanish reals. Equivalent to 40 cents gold.-Editor. The Fall of Old Panama, 1671. 39 Carbonería Central, Venta de Fieles de Venado, de Tigre, de Culebra y de muchas otras clases. Carbón y Cal de Primera. EXISTENCIA DE FRUTAS CONSTANTEMENTE. AVENIDA NORTE, VERDURAS DE TODAS CLASES. Hipólito de la Oliva. 2,000 pirates. They met in December, 1670, at Cape Tiburón, Gulf of Urabá, and held a council to decide whether their forces should be directed upon Cartagena, Vera Cruz, or Panama. The last was chosen as being the richest, and Morgan was elected Admiral. to Capt. Morgan perceived that fortune favored his arms, by giving good success to all his enterprizes, which occasioned him, as it is usual in human affairs, to aspire to greater things, trusting she would always be constant him. Such was the burning of Panama; wherein fortune. failed not to assist him, in like manner as she had done before, crowning the event of his actions with victory, howbeit she had led him thereto through thousands of difficulties. The history hereof, I shall now begin to relate, as being so very remarkable in all its circumstances that peradventure nothing more deserving memory may occur to be read by future ages. to Not long after Capt. Morgan arrived at Jamaica, he found many of his chief officers and soldiers reduced their former state of indigence through their immoderate vices and debauchery. Hence they ceased not to importune him for new invasions and exploits, thereby to get something to expend anew in wine, as they had already wasted what was secured so little before. Capt. Morgan being willing to follow fortune while she called him, hereupon stopped the mouths of many of the inhabitants of Jamaica, who were creditors to his men for large sums of money, with the hopes and promises he gave them, of greater achievements than ever, by a new expedition he was going about. This being done, he needed not give himself much trouble to levy men for this or any other enterprize, his name being now so famous through all those islands, that that alone would readily bring him in more men than he could well employ. He undertook therefore to equip a new fleet of ships; for which purpose he assigned the south side of the isle of Tortuga, as a place of rendezvous. With this resolution, he wrote divers letters to all all the ancient and expert Pirates there inhabiting, as also to the Governor of said isle, and to the planters and hunters of Hispaniola (Hayti), giving them to understand his intentions, and desiring their appearance at the said place, in case they intended to go with him. All these people had no sooner understood his designs than they flocked to the place assigned, in huge numbers, with ships, canoes and boats, being desirous to obey his commands. Many, who had not the cor venience of coming to him by sea, traversed the woods of Hispaniola, and with no small difficulties arrived there by land. Thus all were present at the place assigned and in readiness, against the 24th day of October, 1670. Pirates Go A-Foraging. Capt. Morgan was not wanting to be there according to his punctual custom, who came in his ship to the same side of the island, to a port called by the French, Port Couillon, over against the island, De la Vaca, this being a place which he had assigned to others. Having |