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from Pulo Penang, and should His Majesty send any child or children to Pulo Penang to be educated in all the requisite branches of knowledge, he hopes that such child or children will be favourably received and treated.

All these things His Majesty agrees to with the greatest satisfaction.

This

(The Chop of His Majesty Paduka Sri Sultan Ma-Alum Shab,

King of Perak).

dated the 23rd day of the month Rubbea-ool-awal, on Wednesday, the 25th day of October, in the year 1826.

paper,

(A true translation of copy)

(Signed)

J. GARLING, Resident Councillor.

JAMES LOW, Captain, Political Agent.

(True copy)

(Signed)

No. 84.

Governor Sir Andrew Clarke, K.C.M.G., to the Earl of Kimberley.-(Received March 30.)

(No. 44.) My Lord,

Government House, Singapore, February 24, 1874.

I HAD the honour in my despatch No. 30 of the 4th instant to inform your Lord- ship that, taking advantage of the presence here of Vice-Admiral Shadwell with a large squadron, I had requested him to co-operate with me in an attempt to suppress the further growth of piracy off the coast of Salangore.

2. A recent case, attended with unusual atrocity, but in which, by the most fortui- tous circumstances, nine of the perpetrators had been recognized in Malacca by the sole survivor of the massacre, and had been there arrested, presented an opportunity for enforcing the Treaty engagement with Salangore, and for bringing home to the native Chiefs their own responsibilities in reference to it.

3. There was sufficient evidence to commit these men for trial in our own Courts, and they had already been so committed; but there was a doubt lest a point might with success be raised fatal to our jurisdiction to interfere, as it was not clear that the crime had been committed on the high seas.

4. Even were a conviction certain, I felt that any punishment inflicted by us, and in our territory, removed from the scene of the outrage, as well as out of the sight and knowledge of the fellow countrymen and associates of the men punished, would be barren of any permanent deterring influence or beneficial result.

5. Further, with good reason for being assured that the Malay Chiefs themselves aided and abetted their followers in piracy, claiming from them shares in their booty, I desired to show the latter that they could not be screened from punishment by the authority and influence of the former, and thus to attempt to remove from the commis- sion of piracy in these seas, one element of impunity which it has hitherto possessed.

6. I consequently gladly availed myself in the first instance of the proposal made by Tunku Dia Oodin, the Viceroy of Salangore, to demand these men under the terms of the Treaty, as well as under the provision of the Indian Act for the extradition of offenders.

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7. Aware, however, of the locality from which these men were said to have come, suspected that they were followers of the Chiefs, who had hitherto opposed every obstacle to the Government of Tunku Dia Oodin, and who were still exercising a most baneful influence over the Sultan and his family, and I determined that the authority of the Tunku should yet be covered by still higher authority, and, whatever was the result, the Sultan should be the chief responsible agent and approving power.

8. In pursuance of these views, I communicated with Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Shadwell, as shown in the inclosures to my despatch already quoted, and the inclosed minute of proceedings, gives in full detail all the measures adopted up to the appointment on the 11th instant, of the Commissioners to watch, on behalf of this Government, the proceedings at the trial of the prisoners.

9. Their report and the results of this trial I forward herewith, and I have every reason to hope that the course I have adopted will have the most beneficial influence, and that by its effects piracy on the Salangore coast will have received a severe check.

10. In an early despatch, as soon as I have been able to learn what effect this recent visit and proceedings has had on the affairs of Salangore, I will furnish the information

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called for by your Lordship's despatches Nos. 197 and 259 of the 20th September and 29th November, 1873.*

Inclosure 1 in No. 84.

Old Treaties with Salangor.

I have, &c.

(Signed)

A. CLARKE.

TREATY of Commercial Alliance between the Honourable English East India Company and His Majesty the Rajah of Salangor, settled by Mr. Walter Sewell Cracroft, in virtue of powers delegated to him by the Honourable John Alexander Bannerman, Governor of Prince of Wales' Island and its dependencies. Done on the 20th Shawal, 1233 (answering to the evening of the 22nd August, 1818).

ARTICLE I.

The peace

and friendship now subsisting between the Honourable English East India Company and His Majesty the Rajah of Salangor shall be perpetual.

ARTICLE II.

The vessels and merchandize belonging to British subjects, or persons being under the protection of the Honourable East India Company, shall always enjoy in the ports and dominions subject to His Majesty the Rajah of Salangor all the privileges and advan- tages which are now, or may at any time hereafter be, granted to the subjects of the most-favoured nations.

ARTICLE III.

The vessels and merchandize belonging to the subjects of His Majesty the Rajah of Salangor shall always receive similar advantages and privileges with those in the preceding Article, as long as they are in the harbour of Fort Cornwallis, and in all other places dependent on the British Government of Prince of Wales' Island.

ARTICLE IV.

His Majesty of Salangor agrees that he will not renew any obsolete and interrupted Treaties with other nations, public bodies, or individuals, the provisions of which may, in any degree, tend to exclude or obstruct the trade of British subjects, who further shall not be burthened with any impositions or duties not levied on the subjects of other States.

ARTICLE V.

His Majesty the Rajah of Salangor further engages that he will, upon no pretence whatsoever, grant a monopoly of any articles of trade or commodities, the produce of his territories, to any person or persons, European, American, or natives of any other country, but that he will allow British subjects to come and buy all sorts of merchandize the same as other people.

ARTICLE VI.

The Honourable East India Company engage that they will not form

any Treaties

or engagements which may exclude or obstruct the merchandize of the subjects of the Rajah of Salangor, who come to trade at Penang, nor will they grant a monopoly of any sort of merchandize to one description of persons only, as is specified in the Vth Article, but will allow the natives of Salangor to come and buy all sorts of merchandize the same as other people.

ARTICLE VII.

His Majesty the Rajah of Salangor engages that if any person bring subjects of the Company from Penang and its dependencies for sale, he will not allow of their sale in the country of Salangor, and the Honourable Company will be bound by a similar agreement with respect to the subjects of Salangor, for the laws of England on no account allow of such proceedings in any of the countries subject to the British authority.

• Nos. 31 and 54.