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exceed his instructions the Vice Admiralty Court is open to all was wish to seek redress; but it contrary to the highest notion may seems a man of law and justice that a should be compelled to criminate himself, or to purge himself, to plead in any fashion unless there be a proved and recognized ground of suspicion and the propriety of impugned.
6. his conduct be formally Besides if it had been the intention of the act to do more than provide the means of scrutinizing on the spot applications for rewards, it would surely not have been silent as to the consequences in the event of the officer failing to satisfy the court that the were pirates.
7. Piracy, I am aware, is one of the most monstrous evils as your Excellency; but I am glad to be able to report that through the cordial cooperation and vigilance of Hope, it has for the present been almost entirely suppressed in this immediate neighbourhood. It would, however, be unreasonable to expect continuance of effective action on the part of the Naval authorities if