The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-03 00:00:00

EVENING,

not bear false witness against thy neighbour."—(Cheers.)
There were some men who felt it to be, by a species of
moral obliquity, their duty to filch their neighbour's
purse, and others who felt it their duty to filch their
neighbour's good name—(Cheers)—but such they could
sympatise with, nor ho could not envy the
feelings of such men.—(Cheers.) He had spoken some-
what strongly, because he felt strongly, relative to the
attacks which bad been made upon him—though he had
long remained silent under them. Now, then, with re-
gard to his position in Borneo. Those who said that
when he sailed for Borneo, he carried with him a deep-
laid design of putting down piracy, and civilizing that
portion of the world, gave him possession for foresight
and determination which ho did not possess—and if he
denied the statement, it was simply because it was not
true.—(Cheers.) When he left England, it was merely
with the view of seeing the world, and then coming back
again; and he found a most extraordinary position of
events in Sarawak, and be took charge of a country
which the native rulers could no longer govern. He
had then everything to learn—he was a reformer in the
most extended sense of the word; but he felt that in
every country, properly to carry out reform, they must
respect v. sited interests. He found, therefore, that he had
to govern a country the exsenses of which were fur be-
yond the resources. He had to forbid the native princes
plundering the people, and to pay them himself to prevent
them ding so—to pay for the first two years for the sup-
port of a starving people, and to foster the glimmer-
ing of trade.—(Cheers) He found a principle of usury
existing, by which no less than 24 per cent. per month
was charged for small loans—(Hear, hear)—and this he
had to put an end to by paying off the sums originally
borrowed. They would pardon him for mentioning it,
but all this he did from his private fortune, as was proved
by melancholy tables of stock transferred and securities
sold to the amount of more than :sO,OOO/., to support an
infant Government and aid a suffering people,—(Laud
cheers.) He had been accused of buying up the pro-
duce of the country, and if' he did so to aid his revenue
and increase a limited fortune, he had but followed the
example of the gentlemen present in becoming a British
merchant—a character which he felt to be honourable to
every mao.—(Cheers.) If he had suffered from that it
was because there were insolvents in the city of London
who were represented to him as great capitalists, and
who had relieved him of 10,0001. worth of property
which he could have spent to a better purpose.—(Cheers
and laughter.) He was relieved of that property long
before he bad the honour to hold an appointment under
her Majests's Government, and if he was now only in
possession of honest poverty, he thought it could not
well be said in what be had done he bad acted
from personal motives.—(Cheers.) In spite of all he
had been able to do, and all that bad been said, be re-
gretted to state that Sarzwak boasted of a national debt
—not quite so large as that relative to which the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer of England was then giving an
explanation; but large enough to be both burdensome
and inconvenient.—(Cheers and laughter.) He bad
hitherto refrained from placing taxes on the shoulders of
a rude and impoverished people—he had resisted the
wishes of others to do so, feeling that confidenee in a
Government must precede taxation, and he hoped that
the time would yet come when, feeling that they en-
joyed the blessings of good government, the people
would be ready to impose taxes upon themselves.—
(Cheers.) At all events, it was not his nature to covet
or take the earnings from the peasant's hand, even if
his skin was different to his own.—(Cheers.) The sub-
ject of piracy was a most difficult one, and one which
had given him more trouble than any other. He found
that the inhabitants of Sarebas and Sekarran, or, in
other words, the Malays and the Dyaks, were in the
habit of making piratical attacks upon the peaceable
inhabitants, carrying off their property, and destroying
everything upon which they could lay their hands,
and he determined that the peaceable inhabitants
must be protected. Supposing there were hordes
of bandits continually making invasions on their coasts
from Brest and Cherbourg, carrying off their wives and
children into slavery, and destroying their property,
what would they do? If they could not make the Beat
adders listen to reason, he did not believe there was a
man to be found who would see his daughters disho-
noured and his sons murdered—who would submit to
the indignity, and go about proclaiming to the world
their cowardice and shame amongst raen—he did not be-
lieve there was a man to be found from one end of Eng-
land to the other who would not rise and determine by
force to plit down the marauders.—(Hear, hear, and
cheers.) Had not the natives of Borneo—the peace-
able and industrious natives—suffered from these pirates,
and what had been done was to sweep the seas of these
pirates, and make the law honoured and respected, by
showing that it could protect the innocent, and was
powerful against the guilty.—(Loud cheers) As at
home, if the smuggler resisted the law, shot and
shell did the wells of pulling him down; and if a felon
attempted to escape from a policeman a tap on the
head made him quiet—(Laughter)—so, in Borneo, if the
pirates would not be quiet otherwise, they were made
to be so.—(Cheers.) He could not sit down without
seizing the opportunity of expressing his sense of the
constant and generous support which he had received
from the Noble Lord lately at the head of the Foreign-
office (Lord Palmerston) through all his trials and diffi-
culties—(Cheers)—and he should be wanting in grati-
tude if be did not publicly return thanks to his Hon.
Friend the Member for West Surrey, to the Hon. Member
for Newcastle, and his many other friends, fur the disin-
terested and kind manner in which they bad advocated
his cause, and which left him under a debt of gratitude
to them, which be should never forget, though he could
never repay.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman then
proceeded to argue that Borneo and the adjacent islands
. must become most valuable in a commercial point of view,
and to express his sincere hopes that England would
never allow any other country to step in and reap the
advantages which they ought, and might, under proper
Government, enjoy. He also returned thanks to the
many Gallant Naval Officers with whom he had the
honour to serve, and who had asssisted in
clearing the seas of the Eastern Archipelago of
the hordes of pirates which long disgraced
them. He begged again most heartily to thank
them for the honour they had conferred upon him, and
to assure them that he would always cheerfully endea-
vour to promote the hest interests of British commerce,
whether it should be his lot to spend the remainder of
his days in the transaction of public duties, or sink into
private life in the deep solitude of a Bornean existence.
—(Cheers). He begged them, not only for himself, but
for others, not to give ear to slanders uttered against a
public man at a distance, and assured them that the
kindness be had that night received from them had
applied a remedy to a wrong which he had suffered,
which would henceforth be obliterated from his mind.
Sir James then resumed his seat amidst loud cheers,
which lasted several minutes.
The health of the Chairman—of Mr. Baron Alderson
and the Bar, ably responded to by Mr. Baron Alderson
and Mr. Montague Chambers—the House o
f Commons,
acknowledged by Mr. H. Drummond—the
pread of
Civilizaion in Borneo—Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane
and the Officers who served with him in the Archipela-
gian seas—and a variety of other toasts, were then
druek, the company not separating till past midnight.
Viscount Palmerston was confidently expected to
honour the banquet with his presence, but was una-
voidably prevented doing so in consequence of the im.
portaqt business under discussion in the House of
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