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PIRACY" IN THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 
a thousand assertions, and the officers of Sir Thomas Coch¬ 
rane’s squadron, who attacked the piratical town of Tam* 
pasuk will hear witness to the neatness of the houses, to 
the gardens crowded with fruit trees, and flowers, which 
surrounded them, the industry of the people, and the abun¬ 
dance of the land. No community on the N. W. coast of 
Borneo was more addicted to piracy, and at the same time 
more industrious that the people of Tampasuk, and we 
must with this single fact leave the reader to judge whether 
piracy and industry are so totally incompatible as they arc 
asserted to be. 
I must now close these remarks, which have extended* 
to a far greater length than I originally proposed, and if I 
leave unanswered some other assertions made by the writer 
in the Examiner, it is from want of space and time, and not 
from want of proof of their incorrectness. Every line in 
the article referred to, contains a fallacy or is positively in* 
correct, and l have through this Journal noticed the 
false impression conveyed by the article in the Examiner to 
the public, on the piracy of the East, because it appeared to 
me a question of importance that on this subject at least, 
the minds of our fellow-countrymen should not be misled, 
and that they should again and again be informed of the 
amount of loss sustained of European and native shippiug, 
and the misery entailed on the unhappy people of these lovely 
islands by the ravages of the pirate fleets. 
I ought to apologise for making this Journal the me¬ 
dium of what may appear a controversial paper, but the 
subject is most important, and it is necessary on the spot 
to bear out the views of the leading Journal of Europe, and 
to render justice to the author of the article entitled “ Piracy 
in the Oriental Archipelago.”* 
With this view alone I have written the preceding remarks* 
and I will conclude with the assertion, fully borne out I be¬ 
lieve by the facts I have already stated, that piracy in these 
seas is a great and blighting curse, and if allowed to con¬ 
tinue or increase may become a national disgrace. I propose 
at some future time to continue this subject. 
* We would not have allowed tbia Journal to be made tbe medium of de¬ 
fending the Edinburgh Review and answering the Examiner, if we had not 
been satisfied that the writer has higher than merely controversial objects, and 
been conscious, at the same time, that piracy has been too much neglected in 
these pages. We have been withheld from offering any information on the 
subject, by the promise of a full account of it, long ago made to us, by & 
gentleman who is in possession of ample materials for its elucidation.—Es. 
