The piracies with which the West India seas were for several years infested have been totally suppressed, but in the Mediterranean they have increased in a manner afflictive to other nations, and but for the continued presence of our squadron would probably have been distressing to our own.
Adams reports on the suppression of piracy in the West Indies and the ongoing challenges in the Mediterranean.
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