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captors of prisoners taken during the expedition. The prisoners themselves were fed and well kept

Parliamentary Paper, April 1850. until an opportunity of releasing them occurred,

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when they were dismissed without punishment; ne- Parliamentary Paper, No. 12,

gotiations were made with every tribe bordering on March 8, 1850. Page 12.

the sea, not to trade with the pirates or to supply them with salt, and means considered of erecting

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on one or two eligible positions forts that would command the entrance of the rivers and all com- munications with the sea.

His main object was to guard against the pirates labouring under the impression that his proceedings would be fluctuating and uncertain, for such an im- ** induce pression to use his own words--would them to hold out, whereas the contrary will induce them to accept the terms of pardon I have offered them, which are, that they should desist from their piratical pursuit, and give sufficient guarantees for their future good conduct."

A subsequent despatch from Sir James Brooke- whilst re-urging the necessity of carrying out a firm, consistent, and undeviating system of policy,

a system consonant with humanity, with the inte- rests of commerce, and with the maintenance of our national position in the Archipelago—reports

Parliamentary Paper, April 1850. that the pirates, "scared at the lesson that has been inculcated, have professed their intention of abandoning their evil habits."

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There remains but to state, that the particular acts of piracy committed by the fleet destroyed by Captain Farquhar's force were decided in the Admiralty Court at Singapore upon the fullest and clearest testimony, and that the thanks of the mer cantile community of Singapore were conveyed to Sir James Brooke in an address expressive not only of their "conviction that it was the bounden duty of their (the British) Government, on principle as well as policy, by considerations of humanity as well as by the obligations imposed by the Treaty of 1824 with the Netherlands, to extirpate piracy in the Archipelago wherever it was found," but also of their approval of his measures "to secure to the peaceful and industrious, protection against the ruthless attacks of savage hordes, seeking only the destruction of life and property for mere thirst of blood and rapine;" and of their belief from his

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