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An incident of 1814 involving the flogging of one of the East India Company's Lascar seamen during his stay in a London boarding-house raised this question in an urgent way. Was the use of a 'customary' punishment by a serang {native officer} acceptable in the metropole, or was this a violation of British liberties? A series of new laws sought to evade the problem by restricting the number of colonial seamen in Britain and hastening their repatriation. 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