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A VISIT TO THE IN[>UN AllCHlPELAGO. 



CHAPTER XI. 



kEPbtr TO cUaJuies uadb nt ntL mrjitt^ PiaTiarLAUT as tbbt ^rrscr 



31B JAMES BTtQOKE, 



I tLWE now related those proceedings a^nst the 

 jiinUi i^i of Borneo in 1849, on which, both in and out of 

 Parliament (always, I believe, under the same hidden 

 influences), tJio gravest charges have been reiterated 

 against those of Her Kajestj's servants upon wlxom tvaa 

 imposed the duty of striking a decisive blow at ]>iracy. 



My next task is to refute those charges, particularly as 

 they affect my truly noble tViend, Sir James Brooke. 



Mr, Hume has now twice moYcd for inquiry into 

 those *^ma^sficre3 of inoffensive people and he observes 

 correctly that such charges must, unless iiu|uired into, 

 " hkst Sir James Brooke's chamcter." I grjuit it ; but I 

 deny Mr. Hume's exclusive right to dictate a mode of 

 inquiry, or to repudiate au inquiry already made. 



Mr. Hume mm/ at some time of his life have had a 

 regm^d for some respectable man*s character, oven if he 

 now has httlc for hb own. In mi^ one's case in which he 



