OTHER DESPATCHES. 



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purpose of bringing them to reason ; but, so far from 

 hastily availing bimself of my offer, he informed me tliat 

 he was h'j/hiff pencfftd mid [gentle tnemts to lead thom to 

 a quiet and industrious lifo, and he htyped not to Imve 

 occmimi to remri to coercion ; but in which it would 

 appear the result Imd not responded to hia anxious 

 wishes." 



Mr, Hume really mast not cite respectable witiiesses 

 from the spot : thdr stubborn practical information ** 

 mm£ capsiise hinu 



And now I may cittj the next despatch of Her Majesty's 

 Commissioner for the suppression of piracy to the Head of 

 the Foreign Office. It beara date, Sariwak, 6 til Karch, 

 1849j and, after expressiiig a fear that " without some 

 speci^il arrangement made for the purpose, there will be 

 Httle or no chance of being able to carry into effect his 

 Lordship's instructions of tlio 23rd February, 184S, the 

 writer proceeds as follows : — 1 am particularly anxious 

 to call your Lordship's attention to the present state 

 of piracy in the inmiediate vicinity of Sarawak. The 

 Serebas and SakaiTan pirates, emboldened by the length 

 of time which lias elapsed siace the attack made upon them 

 by Captain the Hononi-able Hemj Keppel, have once 

 more left their rivers in formidable force, and have, 

 for two months past, devastated the coast for upwards of 

 one hundred miles ; numerous pralins have been captured 

 at sea, the boats plundered, ^i^d the crews murdered ; 

 aeroral villages have been attacked and taken, and, 



