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TELEGRAM from the EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS,
K.C.M.G.
Downing Street, February 9, 1876, 4 P.M. -REFERRING to your telegrams of January 15 and February 5, will await your despatch in answer to mine of December 10,† when both will be published in Parliamentary papers, and any further necessary instructions given to you.
SIR,
No. 141.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Foreign Office, February 9, 1876.
I AM directed by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to transmit to you to be laid before the Earl of Carnarvon, for his Lordship's information, the accompanying copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Bangkok, reporting the measures adopted by the Siamese Government with reference to the participators in the recent outbreak at Perak and the murder of Mr. Birch.
I am, &c. (Signed) The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
(No. 41.) MY LORD,
TENTERDEN.
British Agency, Bangkok, December 28, 1875.
I HAVE the honour to report that when the news reached this place that the British Government intended to take steps to punish those concerned in the murder of Mr. Birch, late Resident at Perak, the Siamese Government at once intimated to me that it was their intention to issue instructions to their tributary States bordering on Perak to the following effect :--
That no aid either by sale of arms or otherwise was to be given to any inhabitants of Perak or the adjoining States who were found to be engaged in hostilities against the British Forces employed in punishing the murderers or their abettors, and that such persons were likewise to be prohibited from taking refuge within the Siamese tributary States. Before the news reached the Singapore Government, I received a despatch from them requesting me to move the Siamese Government to take the very measures they had themselves proposed.
I, however, in order to prevent future misunderstandings, thought it only right to inform the Siamese Government that in undertaking to refuse refuge to those engaged in arms against the British Government, they were, in, my opinion, exceeding those duties which, as neutrals, they could be fairly called on to fulfil. That all we could call on them to do in case refuge was demanded, was merely to disarm those seeking refuge and prevent them from engaging in further hostilities.
They have, however, preferred to follow the course as at first laid down.
There is every reason to believe that the inhabitants of the Siamese Malay States will remain perfectly quiet. As far as my information goes, they take little, if any, interest in the matter, looking at it as a mere local affair, and that those concerned in the outbreak are but few in numbers.
In justice to the Ex-Regent, I have to add that the instructions issued to their Malay Rajabs emanated entirely from him. It is to his influence-for he still looks after them -that their prosperity and good order is mainly due.
I have, &c. (Signed)
T. G. KNOX.
The Earl of Derby.
• Nos. 111 and 189.
↑ No. 78.
SIR,
No. 142.
WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Pall Mall, February 9th, 1876.
WITH reference to your letter of the 22nd ultimo, on the subject of the force which it may be necessary to retain for the present in the Malay Peninsula, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Hardy to call Lord Carnarvon's attention to the fact that a prolonged retention of the regiment of Goorkhas and other troops, paid from the revenues of India, in Perak, would be contrary to the 21st and 22nd Victoria, cap. 106; and also that no vote will be taken in the army estimates for 1876-77 either for the number of these troops or for their pay.
Under these circumstances it is very desirable that Mr. Hardy should receive some definite information as to the probable garrison which it may be necessary to retain in the Peninsula.
With reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter, Mr. Hardy desires me to say that he cannot admit that these troops are not employed in connexion with the affairs of the Colonial Government, although they are employed beyond the limits of the Settlements. He is of opinion that the question of the liability of the Settlements for the expenses of the military operations should be left open for future consideration, and that it should not be assumed that the whole expense will necessarily fall on the Imperial Government.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
(No. 330.)
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No. 143.
I have, &c. (Signed)
INDIA OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
CADOGAN.
India Office, S.W., February 10th, 1876. I AM directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to forward herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of a military letter from the Government of India, dated the 31st December last, enclosing a letter from the Colonial Secretary, Penang, conveying the thanks of his Excellency Sir Wm. Jervois for the complete manner in which the requirements of the Government of the Straits Settlements have been met by the despatch of a force from Calcutta for service in the Malay Peninsula.
The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
(Signed)
I have, &c.
C. MASON, " For the Military Secretary.
COPY of a MILITARY LETTER from the GOVERNMENT of INDIA, No. 330, dated 31st December 1875.
We have the honour to enclose, for the information of Her Majesty's Government, a copy of a letter from the Colonial Secretary, Penang, dated the 9th December 1875, conveying the thanks of his Excellency Sir W. Jervois for the complete manner in which the requirements of the Government of the Straits Settlements have been met in respect of the despatch of the force from Calcutta for service in the Malay Peninsula.
SIR,
To the SECRETARY of Government of India, Militany Department, CalcuTTA.
Penang, December 9th, 1875.
I HAVE the bonour to acknowledge your communications of the 19th and 25th ultimo, detailing the force for service in the Malay Peninsula, and I am desired by his Excellency the Governor to express his thanks to the Government of India for the complete manner
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