A VISIT TO THK mDlAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



Brooke^s accusore bring Mm in? IIo was not tho 

 Comin an dci'-in -Chief — he was Dot tlie executive officer : 

 true, he jomed tJiat officer, and co-opemted with him ; but 

 let every one liave his proper place, and there lot each^ in 

 turn, be vindicated, 



I ana sure the unprejudiced reader has gone with me 

 thus far ; to admit — first, that the Comraander-in-Cldef 

 did no more than his duty in despatching a man-of-war to 

 tlie Bo mean coaat in the spring of IS 49 : and next, that 

 the responsibility of everything which was done by that 

 ship, or under the orders of its commanding ofiicer, rests 

 primarily with kh profeasional superior, and, secondarily, 

 with himself. That officer was Commander Fai-qiiliar, of 

 H.ALS- Aidaiross. I will now give the instructions 

 received by km ; and if he did not exceed nor fall short 

 of tJicm, then is Commander Farquhar also free from 

 blame. 



** You are required, and hereby dkected to put to sea 

 in Her Majesty's sloop Al&nfross, under your command 

 and proceed to Labuan, and amionnce your arrival to His 

 Excellency Sir James Brooke, Governor of that settlement ; 

 and in the event of his being ahseut at Saiiiwak, you wiU 

 ]>roceed off that coast to conmnmicato with Ilia Excellency, 

 In consequence of a representation maile to mo by Sir 

 James Brooke, tliat it is intended to make an attempt to 

 DES^TROT the Sei'eifm and Sakarrmi piraii^s, bctTveen the 

 present time and the month of July next, f/ou will (ifford 

 His Ej^ccllmaj your fmutmwe in carrying out Tins oiuect, 



