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"After firing rockets and guns upon Kinta yesterday, combined forces took posses sion without loss; met resistance. Encamped here for the present. Naval brigade" very healthy."

I am, &c.

(Signed)

ROBERT HALL.

No. 87.

Telegram from the EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B.

December 24, 1875. Your telegram 23rd instant received. Am greatly rejoiced at news, and am confident, even from your brief account, that men and officers have shown all their accustomed gallantry in face of considerable difficulties. I await further report with anxiety, and trust this success may hasten conclusion.

No. 88.

Substance of a Telegram from the EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B.

December 27, 1875, 4.5 p.m. I AM anxiously expecting to hear further of the proceedings of the forces. assume that military operations will not be unnecessarily extended.

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No. 91.

Substance of Telegram from GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON. (Handed in at Penang, December 28, 11.15 p.m., received at the Colonial Office, December 28, midnight.)

WITH reference to your Lordship's telegram of 27th, the forces in Perak, 1,200 strong. hold Kinta and positions on the Perak River.

I propose, in connexion with telegram of this day's date, to move about 300 men to Malacca, where, besides the Chinese riots, the condition of the adjacent States is very disturbed.

Attempts are still being made to capture Maharajah Lela, Ismail, and other Chiefs of their party. I do not expect that they will succeed. I am sending letters to other States in Peninsula, requesting that they will refuse to harbour them.

As to further policy, I request reference to my telegram of the 14th.† Views then expressed strongly confirmed by recent events. I submit that for the present troops must continue to be kept in Perak. The case is not in any way analogous either to that of Abyssinia or Ashantee.

Supposing Perak abandoned by us, the Chiefs and others implicated in murder and outrages will come back, without the object of our expedition being attained; there will be a return of anarchy; the natives who have adhered to us, and all who have refused to join malcontents, will be left to their fate; civil war will be the consequence, to be soon followed by a war of extermination between Malays and Chinese.

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No. 89.

COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.

Downing Street, December 28, 1875.

SIR,

I AM directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to transmit to you a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of the Straits Settlements reporting that the Commodore M. Brossard de Corbigny had, with the assent of the Governor of Saigon, offered the services of the French frigate "D'Assas" to the Colonial Government during the disturbances in the Malay Peninsula. I am to request that, in bringing this Despatch before the Earl of Derby, you will state that Lord Carnarvon is anxious that a special acknowledgment may be conveyed to the French Government for the kind feeling and the courtesy thus evinced by M. de Corbigny and the Governor of Saigon.

I am, &c.

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

No. 90.

(Signed) R. H. MEADE.

Telegram from GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF CARNARVON.

Penang, December 28, 1875. APTER affair on 7th, near Residency, Malays of three states Malacca took up strong position in mountain-pass, Sungie Ujong, and strongly fortified themselves. This position attacked and taken on 22nd, by 450 men, consisting of nearly 300 Ghoorkas, with detachments of artillery, 10th Regiment, blue jackets, and irregulare.

One hundred and seventy Ghoorkas, blue jackets, and artillery started 19th under Colonel Hill and Commander Stirling, made long arduous flank march for three days through dense jungle, and turned position; whilst remainder, under Colonel Clay, leaving 21st advanced through jungle in front. Only one Ghoorka killed, one wounded.

Complete success with so little loss greatly due to gallantry and judgment of Captain Channer, of Ghoorkas, who surprised and took a stockade flanking the position. [After] visiting invaded districts, troops will return to Sungie Ujong.

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No. 92.

Substance of a Confidential Telegram from the EARL of carnarVÓN to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B.

Downing Street, December 29, 1875. JUDGING as well as I can from your telegrams, I think the time has come for giving further instructions. Her Majesty's Government are of opinion that a Proclamation in carefully-considered language should be issued to the effect that--

(a.) Forces were sent for punishment of murderers; that object has been attained to a certain extent, which you should specify, though the leading instigators have not yet been captured.

(6.) Until punishment fully secured, British justice, they may be well assured, will not relax pursuit, and that reward will be offered for arrest and bringing to trial of Ismail and Lela. You may also offer smaller rewards in case of others directly con- cerned. Though amounts left to you, I think 1,0001, each for Ismael and Leia should be maximum, and earnest exhortation to peace should conclude Proclamation.

No. 93.

Substance of Very Confidential Telegram from the EARL OF CARNARVON wo GOVERNOR SIZ W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B.

Downing Street, December 29, 1875. FOLLOWING secret instructions and explanations to be added to those sent in separate telegram as to terms of Proclamation:-

1. Troops, to such extent as you consider indispensable, may be retained for present. 2. You must not employ them for purposes of annexation in any way, and Her Majesty's Government trust to you to use both your personal and official influence to repress any schemes of the kind."

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