Colony or at Macao that the Ammunition is purchased with which piracy is kept alive. For as matters are at present it is almost impossible to distinguish with certainty between the professional pirate & the honest trader or the one goes almost as heavily armed for defence as the other for offence & I am afraid that a good opportunity often causes a temporary merger of the distinction altogether & the trading voyage is varied by attacks on weaker boats. Furthermore it has often come to my notice officially that a close connexion exists between many of the native residents and piratical confederations all along the coast & such a fact as this alone is a most grievous cause of demoralization to our lower classes.
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The only remedy in my opinion, for these evils may appear somewhat bold & extreme one but Sir I have been paying very great attention to this subject for five years & should the measures meet your concurrence & be carried out as personal experience tells me they can be piracy in the China seas will in three years be a crime of not more frequent occurrence than highway robbery or housebreaking is in England.
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Colony or at Macao that the Ammunition is purchased with which piracy is kept alive. For as matters are at present it is almost imposible to distinguish with certainty between the professional pirate & the honest trader r the one goes almost as
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