from attacks and pillage by moving piratical resorts, and praying that some other means
sweeping
than so
a measure
be devised by which the character of Vessels employed in the coast trade and fisheries might be substantiated, and
were
prepared to submit to
any measures
they
by which that
end could be attained other
proposed. The
than the one
was
Viceroy added that he felt the remonstrance of these people founded in justice; that it was simply impossible at present
to
give them protection along
a vast line of
some hundreds
of
miles, and, therefore, to deprive them of the defending
means
themselves was
somewhat hard; that he had willingly met the proposition of Vice Admiral Sir Henry Keppel for a total disarmament as an effectual means
for the suppression of Piracy,
under
the
impression
that it
might be carried out, but experience had proved its impracticability, and it now remained only
to be seen what
could be done to effect
the object which he had quite
as
much