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Translator: Charles Fried. Neumann

Transcriber's note:

Inline Sidenotes are placed as close as possible, and marked

HISTORY OF THE PIRATES

WHO INFESTED THE CHINA SEA,

FROM 1807 TO 1810.

BY CHARLES FRIED. NEUMANN.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND, And Sold by J. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET; PARBURY, ALLEN, & CO., LEADENHALL STREET; THACKER & CO., CALCUTTA; TREUTTEL & W?RTZ, PARIS; AND E. FLEISCHER, LEIPSIG.

LONDON Printed by J. L. Cox, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

Robbers or pirates are usually ignorant of the principles concerning human society. They are not aware that power is derived from the people for the general advantage, and that when it is abused to a certain extent, all means of redress resorted to are legitimate. But they feel most violently the abuse of power. The fruit of labour is too often taken out of their hands, justice sold for money, and nothing is safe from their rapacious and luxurious masters. People arise to oppose, and act according to the philosophical principles of human society, without having any clear idea about them. Robbers and pirates are, in fact, the opposition party in the despotical empires of the East; and their history is far more interesting than that of the reigning despot. The sameness which is to be observed in the history of all Asiatic governments, presents a great difficulty to any historian who wishes to write a history of any nation in Asia for the general reader.

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