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those nefarious pursuits. To deal adequately with
such magnitude required at once energetic and
evit ... of such scheme of action comprehensive;
and if, in devising and carrying out the measures
necessary, there was much anxiety and labor, I
cannot but feel that they are well repaid by the satisfactory report
I was enabled to transmit to His Grace on the 14th July last.
20. In contrast with the events of last year, when no
less than six foreign vessels were captured in the
vicinity of these waters, and in many atrocious murders of Europeans perpetrated, I was then enabled to state and can
still report that since the 1st of September last not one such case has recurred, and that out
of 18 cases of Piracy reported for the three Quarters ended on the 30th of June last,
most were comparatively trivial, whilst in eleven a more or less effective punishment had been inflicted on the guilty,
and in none was there the slightest evidence to show the least connection between the Pirates and their former principal Centre of operations, viz. Hongkong.
29. On the whole I think there is now reasonable hope that the time is not far distant, when we may look forward to being able to give