PUEVBNTIVES, 



Twenty thousand prisoners attested tlie vigour of the 

 Eomau coiiimandGr's measures and their success*- He 

 pursued them homo to every lurking placcj gave them 

 battl© wherever they collected, besieged theui wherever 

 they took rofngo ; m short, his mission was to suppress, 

 and he did not stop short of it. To those wlio take a roal 

 interest in the subject of these chapters, it will be mainfest 

 that these early records may }m usefully stiiilied as any 

 other parts of history. Many more such references 

 miglit be made. Other European seas — the seas of the 

 West Indies — of the East — of Cliina — all might furnish 

 illustrations of the position I have laid down, as to the 

 origin, the source of growth, and of prosperity, and 

 finally, the mode of suppressing piracy. We have just 

 dwelt for a moment on the moiit remarkable example whicli 

 exists : and the only attempts on our owii part which have 

 met with even a temporary success have been such as were, 

 in a veri/ small way» imitative of the iiacompromising 

 Pom PRY. But Mr, Hume would no doubt have moved for 

 an inquiry into the massacre of the Cretans and Cilicians, 



4* I have but a word to say upou my remaining 

 proposition, which was this — that, as piracy never has 

 been and 1 think never will be put down, except by 

 uncompromising decision, so its revival in the same 

 localities can only be prevented by humanismg and projil- 

 (ihle pursuits^ as suhstiiides. 



Herein we have an advantnge over the Homan subju- 

 gator, inasmuch as Christianity, commerce, manufacture. 



