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circumstances.

"They were accordingly sentenced to transportation for life.

I beg leave of His Excellency to suggest the propriety of an enquiry being instituted

into the bold and scandalous

tements of the (now happily convicted) pirate Elis Moore Boggs, in the course of his long and elaborate defence, a defence mainly grounded upon an asserted

sserted right to

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cultivate, for himself, a similar alliance with the Chinese pirates to that which, as he pretended, does subsist and

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has for years subsisted

between those wretches and

the department of Police, for the advantage of some or

one of its

e of The

falsehood of the charges did not deprive them of their wright in the minds of many of the audience if I may judge from the deepattention with which they. received and the impression which they appeared to

have behind.

were

Nor can it be doubted.

that the infamms "Wong

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