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would have the effect of placing suck

vessels

at the

mercy of

and that the search.

pr

arrus

, many of

the pirates

of

such

junks

them carrying

foreign plays, would be likely to lead

to

complications between Foreign Powers.

Lords

The opinion of

the

亻

the Admiralty

as above expressed

J

as indeed

Her Majesty's Eovernment

generally, has been greatly strengthened

forcible arguments contained

by

some

in Sir Rt. Alcock's despatch

subject to which I have already

referred.

shore by the Cluniese

с

preparation authorities. The origin of

The swarning

piratical population afloat which has

for so long alternately

سیار

period forced

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living

in fishing, trading and

plunder, according to the circumstances

of the moment

no small degre

=settled state

must

be traced in

to the long

tr=

the Country, wasted

by incessant insurrections, thousands

of families

this

a state

In it he calls attention.

to the danger of any sudden and

vjorous

measures

of piracy without

for

the extinction.

some previous

preparation

are

continually reduced to

of destitution, with me

of

two alternatives, to rob or to starve,

and whilst some

the

join

insurgents

shore, there swell the ranks.

the pirates. If entirely driven from The sea

by any sufficiently vigorous

measures