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Pirates - thus giving to their - the character of ordinary fishing boats, which often carry two-generations male and female of one family, whose only home is their boat.
10. Evidence numerous the misdeeds procured of Piracies committed by captured Junks. At the last Sessions, however, of the Supreme Court the Chief Justice ruled that no case was brought clearly within Admiralty Jurisdiction, and the prisoners are now detained till the Chinese Authorities can give the necessary preliminary evidence justifying their rendition and trial on the usual terms.
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14. A similar expedition -
11 -accompanied by a Mandarin was subsequently sent from here to the neighborhood of Macao, resulting in the capture of a Pirate vessel, with one of the principal Pirate Chiefs on board, who committed suicide soon after his capture. That vessel and the prisoners on board of her, being unquestionably taken in Chinese waters were left with the Mandarin, who was the ostensible captor.
12. Still more recently I allowed another trial expedition of the same kind to be made