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al -(lie ends of the earth, occupy] ug a positiou unpre- 

 cedented for an European its a friend of the human 

 race. 



" Men, tliat make 

 Envy and <^rflokc(l malice nounubment, 

 Dan bito tbo beak" 



Meii*s minds will feed either upon their own good or 

 upon others' evil; and who wautetli the one, will prey upon 

 the other : and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's 

 virtue, will seek to come at even hand bj depressing 

 another^s fortune/' WTiatever be the motives of Sir James 

 Brooke's detractors, they have not succeeded in their 

 aims. Even while their 



"gall coiuE Blander^ Uk<j a mini, 

 To mAtcli liiiu in ^mpazisoiis wjtb dirt, 

 OwHiOK crowns him wilL inipcrml TOiceT" 



And I feel assured, tliat overy shaft they shall 

 hurl with the same ma worthy aim will, like the 

 boomerang thrown by a clumiiy hand, revert upon 

 their own heads : I despair of its touching any more 

 Iiopeful part. 



The subject of piracy baa during the last three years 

 given rise to repe<ated discussions in Parhament ; but 

 these have n^^umed the tone not so much of enlightened 

 debate as to the best means of suppressing it^ as of fierce 

 attacks on all that has been done for this end, and on 

 the characters of those employed, — on their humanity, 

 their disinterestedness, their veracity. As one of the 

 officers implicated widi the "Anglo-Malayan Rajah" in 



