m A VISIT TO THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



CochraBe and Collier ; Captains Fai^uhar and Wallage ; 

 Sir J allies Brooket and myself ; nor do I see how those 

 noblo Lords can escape who, as the he^ids of the Foreign 

 and Colonial offices, approved of what ivas done against 

 these pirates, and eren gave iustructioiis \?hat sftouM 

 be done. 



This is also suggested by Mr. Hume himself, " Sir 

 James Brooke " he says, hmy in his extraordinary' acts, 

 been associated with parties far more influential in 

 Parliament than himself; and he ought not to deceive 

 himself in the belief tliat the attempt to scrmt fkese 

 parties is an acquittal of him " It is a grave chai-ge to 

 bring against that high tribunal. Is the whole Hotase 

 of Commons degraded, whenever it cannot see with one 

 inan^a eyes 1 Some single merober ini^At vote to screen 

 a friend : some half-dozen — nay some nineteen — might by 

 possibility unite either to screen or to persecute : but 

 when fwo hundred and iMrt^ such pei-sona, comprising the 

 high-minded, the intellectual, the wise, and the good, are 

 seen dividing against nineteen, we may be sure that such 

 would no more screen a delinquent than they wocld 

 countenance a pei'sccuter. 



One disagreeable circumstance to Sir James Brooke, 

 arising from their discussions,^ — perhaps the most so — is 

 that, in defending him against charges from which he 

 never shrunk , his friencJs hare unavoidably to hold him 

 up as an object of praise, From whicli ho does shrink with 

 the ficnsEitiveness nf renl merit. Indeed I feel that 



