QENTLEMAN MILE^. 



months on tlio Bintoolu nver, whence he was brought back 

 to Labuaii by Governor Brooke.* 



Sxicb being the wbole substance of Mr. Milea's commu- 

 nication, bis conclu-sion is, — that tbo SiTcim^ people were 

 massacred Gmmwr Bronke, " ivho wants to jnurdcr 

 them into sufjjedion to the Saifiwak Government/' 



Mr. Miles complacently ends, " There can be only one 

 opinion about tliia with any one acquainted witli Sir James 

 Brooke." 



And as to " the piracy question." Mr, William Henry 

 Miles does not believe om iota about it^— a chiasical 

 espnssion much used by Mr. Hume liimsclf. 



Surely these two individuals reflect disgrace upon each 

 other. Who can touch pitch and not be defded % Wbat 

 could Mr. Hume expect to gain by bringing forward this 

 concoction of ignorance and malevolence ? Wliat can \m 

 Lnbuan jackal gam by such an ill- judged rc-introductioii 

 of him on his native soil % Peter Llorjd and ku eai4y 

 misfortuncis " are brought afresh to light, when they 

 might Iiave remained hidden in the Labuan coal-mine, 

 wliile his hands might have been supposed clean, except 

 from soot. 



** A discreditable affair is it, from first to last," observed 

 Mr. K Drummond in tho House of Commons ; and the 

 gentlemen of England echoed him. 



That the dbh we have just discussed had liceu, as 



* I may an we] I montioii tore Uml Mr, Biirnj^, who wafi an obRCUPC advttitunjr, 

 puM^l ItidkiHflFofl'EUiiuug the KajaoH. m tlit *m tif rtir Janms* nr4it>kij, jind Iburtili^^ 

 ftbtiiiucit in umrriaLifc a tliiuglttcr of oihl' of the ijhitiriK. The parLicubiT^ of bis 

 nnrdor by piraMssi. of. Hdudu Uay, ate given in Clmptur xvii. 



