A VISIT TO THE INDIAN AkCTIIPELAOO. 



cliicfa of piratical comiminitics soon consider thenmlms 

 heroes, and are honouired as such amongst each otlion 

 While then this is the case, there will always be a few 

 audacious spirits^ mainsprings of each dijstinct machme, — 

 characters such aa Byron and Cooper hfi^D i a vested witJi a 

 false romance ; — and these are they on whom a morale as 

 well as an external, influence may he ■well exercised : 

 there is often something really noble in then* natures, 

 giving hope that the highest principles of action and 

 of forbearance may be implanted m their mmds ; that 

 they may be brought not merely to " cease to do evil/* 

 but to learn to do ivell/' and may become the little 

 leaven that shall leaven the whole lump for good. 



Such then are the clcraents of growth and prmpenf^r 

 which have been common to piracy in every age. 



3. And now for its remedies. The same disease 

 requires the same medicine — just varied in its mode of 

 administmtion, to suit the particular subject. 



" Ph-acy " says the historian of Greece, " familiar and 

 flouriahing in the jEgean sea^ from earliest history to the 

 present <lay, patronised by sovereign power, by republics 

 not less than by single tyrants, has never been coirtpleieli/ 

 suppressed f unless in short periods of UKCOMitON yjQOtJB aud 

 viotLAKCE, under the administration of the Roman power." 



We may pa.ss orer the failures, some total, some pai tial, 

 which %vere experienced, even by the Roman arms, 

 whenever hftif memures were resorted to against this 

 formidable ecom'ge, They defeated Munena, they allowed 



