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promote finally

1.

aw

improved policy.

Under the circumstances and) having give the question the best

considuations in his prover the Gevanor

would suggest le

A forr

the expedimas

of inducing the Vice Rey, not to order a giveral disarmament of all trading Junks,

A.J

that is

sumes

aw

experiment to which he

at present wholly averse, but to

direct that

trading vessel under

pinally of forfeiture or heavy fine?,

carry any

shall

strup pots. It is well. Known

that the latter

are

the instruments of distruction mest used by Pirates and

most dreaded by chose whom they attack:

10.

It is not too much to apert

stat in many

instances vessels attacked

world have made

and

a.

prolonged)

frequently a successful defence,

but for the confusion and lerror occasioned

board at the

by the shrink pots flung

on

commencement of an attack, and which have

invariably bom found

Mer e

calculated,

and at all events have been more used, for attack than defence.

71.

New piratical craft would wo ture to follow their refasions pursuits; if unprovided with Think pols, and, Therefore, any

cruiser visiting a Junke

after a proclamation forbidding this wwe would possess a uny effective addi-

tional

Vula 1 10

of delicting its true character

of the expel nited, whilst the right to visit and search for them, though it

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