Government in the Sulu Archipelago.
Without being able to afford Your Lordship any precise or accurate information, yet statements which reach ma from various quarters, lead me
to entertain doubt, that a
I
most barbarous war is carried
on
· against the Natives in those seas.
The territorial rights claimed and exercised by the Spanish Government,
are
calculated to obstruct trade,
and must I think unless
more
re clearly defined, result in
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- serious complications with other European Governments whose subjects may be illegally- and arbitrarily dealt with while carrying
trade.
There...
legitimate
Are//NO” means
be
of
ascertaining what may
the Spanish Gun-
done.
by
boats which are
generally...
under command of Junior
Officers.
of
The presence of o Her Majesty's skips in the Sulu Archipelago, would at least tend to mitigate the
barbarities which I am
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