He is called by the former, Juan Florin or Florentin, or simply, the Florentine,-theFrench corsair.

The Bristowe merchants had suffered great losses from the depredations made on their ships by French corsairs.

This, and the complaints every where made of the injuries inflicted by French corsairs, rendered the early attention of the king necessary.

A French corsair, which had persisted in anchoring in a forbidden part of the harbour of Venice, had been riddled by the batteries and captured.