S70 A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



or disaffected," (for tie law will suppose some one of 

 tlieae motiTes), or a course of obeJienco to that law, 

 though some individual ^senator might call it " massacre/' 

 The foUouing obsDrratiDEis of Lord Palmerston are an 

 excellent commeut on the aboTo clause : — 



When you are engaged with an enemy, until tliat 

 enemy surrenders, imtil he asks for quarter and puts 

 hmiself in your power, you continue hostilities ; and if 

 you come up, you fire a broadside^ whether with round 

 sliot or wiUi grape ; but you continue your hostilities 

 jigaimt the enemy with whom you are contending untH 

 he, by an act of his own, imlicates that ho surrenders and 

 places himself in your power, and claims from you that 

 forbearance which the laws of war, or in this case, if you 

 please, the laws of the land, would entitle him to claim at 

 your hands/' 



Wlicn I shall have added on this point the \aluabk 

 testimony of Sir Thomas Cochrane, whicli entirely at'cords 

 with all that I have seen myself, I think I may close my 

 observations on the question of " undue severity/* 



" Witli regard" says that distinguished officer, "to the 

 loss of life that attended the late attacks upon this people, 

 it is proper I should acquaint y^our Lordship that it is 

 impossilile to give, and hopeless to expect quarter, Avhen 

 in jictioii, from tMs singular people. They have such an 

 extraordinary contempt for life, one would almost suppose 

 they imagined that, on the loss of onCj anotlicr would 

 supply his place. A Mjday, when irritated, would kreeae 



