From G Malcolm Laws, Jr., American Balladry From British Broadsides (American Folkore Society, 1957, pp. 154-155):

                               K 28
                         THE FLYING CLOUD

The narrator becomes an apprentice to a cooper in Waterford but leaves him to ship on board the Ocean Queen, bound (usually) for Valparaiso. There he falls in with Captain Moore, commander of the Flying Cloud, which goes to Africa for a cargo of slaves, many of whom die on the return trip to Cuba. Moore decides to turn pirate and all the crew but five join him. The pirates rob and plunder many ships on the Spanish Main. Often pursued by warships, they outrun them all until finally a ship shoots away their mizzenmast. In the fight that follows, Captain Moore and many of his men are killed and the rest are captured. The narrator and his fellows next appear in Newgate under sentence of death.

       My name is Edward Holleran, as you may understand,
       I was born in County Waterford, in Erin's lovely land;
       I being young and in my prime, my age scarce twenty-one,
       My parents doted on me, I being their only son.

   Eckstorm, 214, 16d (N.S. via Me.). Belden, 128, 15d (Mich. via Wis.). Colcord, 145, 15d, m. Creighton, 126, 17d, m. (N.S.) Creighton and Senior, 223, 15d; 2d (N.S.). Dean, 1, 16d (Minn.). Doerflinger, 135, 17d, m. (N.S.); 3d, m. (N.Y.) Notes and refs. Finger, 84, 12d, m. Gray, 116, 24 sts. (from a Boston newspaper); 12d sts. (reprinted from JAF 35, 370) Greenleaf, 349, 30, m. (Nfld.). Leach, 778, 30 (Me.). Lomax, Amer. Ballads, 504, 13d. m. (Mo.). Mackenzie, 283, 16d (N.S.) Refs. Rickaby, 145, 15d, m. (N.D.). Thompson, 39, 15d (N.Y. a composite text) . Shay, 183, 15d, m. JAF 35, 370, 12d (Minn. A composite text).
   Greig, cxviii, 12d ("William Hollander").
   Doerflinger, 334-335, feels that the author of this ballad was influenced by a prose temperance pamphlet of 1830 entitled "Dying Declaration of Nicholas Fernandez, Who with Nine Others were Executed . . . for Piracy and Murder on the High Seas". Most of the parallels he cites, however, are commonplaces in crime literature of this type.
   For an enlightening analysis of the ballad see Horace P. Beck, "The Riddle of 'The Flying Cloud'", JAF 66, 123-133.

From Library of Congress Online Catalogue:

Dying declaration of Nicholas Fernandez, who with nine others were executed...

LC Control Number: 42043486
Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Brief Description: Fernandez, Nicholas. [from old catalog]
         Dying declaration of Nicholas Fernandez, who with nine others were executed in front of Cadiz harbour, December 29, 1829. For piracy and murder on the high seas. Translated from a Spanish copy by Ferdinand Bayer. Annexed is a solemn warning to youth (and others) to beware of the baneful habit of intemperance ...
         [New York?] 1830.
         36 p. incl. front. 20 cm.

~Masato