While failing to accomplish any great object, we hope that
we have done something to enlighten public opinion by our constant intercourse
with leading public and literary men and others, and also by aiding and
encouraging our consuls in their efforts to stop the outfit of pirates in what
ought to be the friendly ports of Great Britain.
SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and
Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 2, p. 64
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