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known to both

porties - the difficully

of preventing oppressive and mistaken interference in a thousand instances

and of daily

occurrence

from.

misapprehension alone, a part from all other causes, and the utter impossibility of making the whole Seagoing population understand the trive object of such Foreign interference as would be involved in the exercise of a right of search

and seizure,

was pro

or to believe that this

other than the protection of the peaceable and honest trader or

fisherman

regainst the piratical vessels that prey

theur,

upon

are all so

many aropaments

against employing such means.__

On the other hand, it seems.

equally certain that without some

very general. thoroughly carried out, nothing, effective can be done toward the suppression of pirmay

the Comst,

measure of disarmament

and left to Chinese Authorities alone

no mexsive of the Kind will ever be satisfactorily carried into exccaution. _

Under these circumstances

que faire ? To leaver things

are in

in pursu

کند میجر سے

they

of a Caissez-

ofaire policy, is to crecept all the

an evil which,

if

consequences of not repressed manifest a perpetival tendency to increase. It constitutes

-a-

danger which already for ches the