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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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