TESTIMONY FROM MANILLA. 



lubber, to be a pickpocket, must rob a guardsman ; or to 

 be a burglar, 7nmt try the doors of Bumlej Hall Surely 

 he is equally worthy of KorfoLk IsJand, if he exercke his 

 crow-bar on the porter's lodge. But if this objection be 

 serious, it is easily answered. It is easily sliown that 

 tliese pirate-tribes have been guilty of attacks on square- 

 rigged vessels. 



A retiu-n has been produced in Parliament from Lloyd's, 

 showing that between thirty and forty square-rigged 

 vea^ek have been "captured, pkiidcrcd, or moJested" 

 within the last twelve years by Malay or Dyak pirates, — 

 the crews in man}'- cases ha%ing been murdered. Grant 

 that all these outrages cannot be brought homo to the 

 Sercbas and Sakarrans ; jstill when we do convict ihem 

 hundreds of miJes from their own rivers, — " sweeping the 

 coast even to Celebes,'' — we may fairly lay to their charge 

 a proportion of these outrages of which the perpetrators, 

 though not named, are traced from " BouKfio," Aud, 

 a^ain, what is the fair inference from that despatch of the 

 Consul at Manilla, cited by Lord Palmerston 1 He says 

 that during his five years of residence there merchant* 

 vessels, American or British, have been attacked, and their 

 crews carried into slavery, — ^that square-rigged vessels 

 have disappeared, and never been heard of, earned off, as 

 it was premuned, by pu-ates ; but that in consequence of 

 recent operations of British ships of war on the mMJtem 

 coast of Borneo, as well as of the operatiojis of the Dutcb 

 and ypaniards, trade is becoming moi-e secure, and the 



