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Mr. Hume's Notice of Motion.

"That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to appoint Her Royal Commission to inquire into and report on the proceedings of Sir James Brooke on the Coast of Borneo in the year 1849, and specially into the operations of the naval forces of Her Majesty and the Honourable East India Company, under the command of Commander Farquhar, R.N., on the night of July 31 in that year, against the Dyaks of Serebas and Sakarran of Borneo, when Sir James Brooke states in his deposition on September 25, 1849, that upwards of 500 men were killed in the engagement and subsequent flight;' and Commander Farquhar reports in his official despatch of August 25, 1849, to Rear-Admiral Sir F. Collier, a loss of about 500 men;' and also states that 'more than an equal number would, in all probability, perish in the jungle.''

Thursday, May 22.

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