Show A royal practitioner of piracy roary tit in the role of a patron of piracy liaa has never been so unusual but few monarchs have engaged in tile the practice themselves an exception to tilts tills to Is the case of 0 angora sultan of timor last kaist indies angora flourished in tile the days whon the last east india colli company pany was a 11 power in international affairs lint but angora unimpressed by its importance refused to allow tile the company to station garrisons on timor the mighty company forces overran hla his P tiny marshaled its aslund and ond and drove blin bilm into ills chief town also named angora Il for revenge tile the sultan turned pirate and set out to sen sea in a bleet of five prows and several galleys ills birst capture ws a brig commanded by captain llast hustings lugs fl a relative of the famous warren hastings ila stIngs hastings was carrying dispatches from calcutta to the british general bole besieging glug an 9 gorn ora when the pirates swarmed aboard ills his all ship lp lie he threw tho the dispatches overboard to prevent their seizure nor for this lie he was promptly hanged and ills hit crew sent fla as prisoners to angora where they were pol poisoned tile the sultans next net capture wits waa tile the edward a ship of the east india company whose crew arev was also poisoned next lie he defeated a vessel sent out by tile the government to capture hlin him and followed tills this by attacking a ship from Ila burma riun with whose ruler lie he had always been upon friendly terms tenna the sultan drowned every person on tills this ship except one woman ills next victim wits was a malay tile the crew of which lie he shackled and threw overboard by way of variety in murder lour der then lie he sailed into bombay harbor and finding the garrison unprepared easily captured the tort fort blew it up and sailed away with it 11 load of rich booty shortly afterward lie seized it an n packet the st SL george ter tortured the captain to death and forced abe crew to join his service ily by tilts this time the walls of the east india company had forced tile the BrI british government to action one ut of its greatest ships the victorious was sell sent the pirate I 1 but ho be slipped past the ninn of war out of the harbor of angora tit at night and successfully node ills his way to Trin comalee in coy ecy ion loll there lie retired from further piratical practice and the east cast hi tin din company ny decided that it would bo be weil to let well enough alone so the sultan itan pirate rounded out ills days in peace and ills career Is nn an interesting one it in that it proves that natall not all pl ratas finished up tit t the end of a rope if however however tit the 0 fact that lie he was a royal pirate may have had so something to do with eliat |