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Stoughtong Division of the China recent Station, inclosing copies of Reports received by him relative Piracy, and commenting upon the prevalence of the evil in the immediate waters of Stoughtong.
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There papers prove beyond all doubt the increasing boldness of the Pirates who infect this neighbourhood. They show that species of black ... circumstances of great atrocity upon European vessels within sight almost of this Harbour. They confirm also the opinion which I communicated to your Lordship in my letter 21st May last, written when I was in England, that some more efficient system of suppression, than that followed at present by the Naval Authorities, must be adopted before the waters of this Colony and the approaches not only is a ... of ... mail levied upon the fishing and our market, but provision boats and other native craft frequenting that most daring acts of piracy have lately been perpetrated under ... to them can be effectually secured against such disgraceful depredations.
3. At present upon a piracy