agan Chinamen. An instance in proof of this occurred
at the very juncture when Englishmen were offering their assistance
to the Portuguese authorities, and preserving the lives of Portuguese
subjects, which their own government had not force sufficient to do. On
the 25th of August, Mr. Summers, an English missionary, was cast into
prison because he did not take off his hat to the procession of _Corpus
Christi_ in the street. The Englishman excused himself by a declaration
that his conscience would not allow him to do any act of religious
reverence in such a case; but that he meant no disrespect, and regretted
that he did not think of passing into some other street, thereby
avoiding the procession. These reasonable explanations and polite
statements did not mollify the Portuguese civil and ecclesiastical
authorities; and an English Protestant subject was incarcerated for not
performing an act of Roman Catholic worship in the public streets of a
city which English arms were saving from pillage and massacre! Captain
Keppel, of her majesty's ship _Meander_, however, demanded Mr. Summers's
release, which was refused, when he gallantly landed a party of
marines, and took him out of prison. The Portuguese resisted with
fierce fanaticism, and some loss of life ensued; but the English officer
accomplished his purpose, and inflicted humiliation upon the bigots
whose tyranny compelled his prompt and manly act.

BORNEO.

Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Sarawak, whose heroic efforts to suppress
piracy in the Indian Seas have been noticed on a former page, continued
his exertions in clearing those seas of the pirates, and in building
up settlements on the coasts of Borneo. July was generally the
expeditionary season for the pirate chiefs, and Sir James resolved this
year to prepare for their severe chastisement, and, if possible, for
their extirpation. Accordingly, Commander Farquhar, in command of her
majesty's brigs _Albatross_ and _Royalist_, the celebrated steamer
_Nemesis_, belonging to the East India Company, and the steam-tender
_Ranee_, were joined by the rajah himself in command of a native
flotilla. The squadron entered the mouth of the Sarrebas river, as
the rajah had certain information that the pirates intended to inflict
pillage and massacre upon the people of that neighbourhood. On the
evening of the 30th, tidings reached Sir James that the pirates were
attacking a place called Palo. The next day one of the look-