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you hereafter wohen the slips shall have been perfected which I have lästen in

this dinedione.

ند الا

sa

afficiens at present

to report

that an Ordinance is under the consideration

of the local Legislature, and that on the

Bah Admiral Kiiper and Caplain

Notlash seems to me to have misconceived

the actual position of affairs; the piracies referred to do not occur in the waters of the Colony, and if they did occur wichin Colonial Waters they would not be piracy,

törture

I

they

the

subject of Guaranter aganist have scritten të the Vice-Rey of Ireo Ruang, and also communicated with Her Majesty's Consul in Canton.

Wich se

respect

occur on the high

avar alone are

scas where men

of

legally competent to interfer

with them, at least so

I apprehend, but

nay

admit that on this last pour I

be

to the general question

werong.

"of the suppression of piracy, and the

Jake

communication from the Lords Commissioners

of the Aduvirally

enclosed ris

a jour

Despatch, I have perused this latter

altentively, and beg to offer the following

revarks:

Admiral Rüper next errs, and is

apparenely misted by Captain Nolloch's

statement, that the men

of war perform

generally the Euties of a Water Polici for this Colony.

The Water Police of the Colony has