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tm sImwc, btife merely to persons at sea, who mjtst ham some 

 residence on skm'c. * * * In these seas (the Bomoan) 

 there is every species of distinction to be found. Tliere 

 are persons who carry on the business of pirates, and 

 whose sole occupation is piracy ; there are others who 

 resort to it only at particular perioL^^ ; and there are 

 persons who^ only at certain opportunities, show a dis- 

 regard of all rights, and a^ail themselves of ciraimstaiiccs 

 to commit piracy. Every one of these casew must depend 

 on its own merits^ and on the locality where the tmns- 

 action took place." 



I would just remark, in taking leave of Captain Yoimg, 

 that J while he never heard at Lahuan of tlio Sercbas 

 pirates, Mr, Hume's next witness admits tliat the 

 expedition against them was long tdked of there ; " and 

 my friend, Lieutenant Hoskcn K.K, whose word at all 

 times is a guarantee for the truth, attests that there was 

 no more common topic at Labuan, than the outrages of 

 the Sehebas pu^tes. 



From the two double-barrelleiS captaiiis of the Indian 

 Navj^ whose ** evidence " is little worth the tricks it cost 

 to manufacture it, wo come to 



4. " A communication from a genflemnM twentynjighfe 

 years resident at Sincapore/* 



" William Henry 3Iiles/' m now, aatl has been for some 

 years, this gentleman's name. Seven years — not twenty- 

 eight — he says that he has lived at Sincaporo : but this is 

 an hnmaterial point. Two yeara at Lalnian. The fii*sfc 



