SIR,
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No. 35.
The EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS,
K.C.M.G., C.B.
Downing Street, July 21, 1876. In the viith page of the Index to the last papers presented to Parliament respecting the affairs of the native States in the Malay Peninsula, the purport of my Despatch of the 20th of May 1876* would appear to show that the question of con- ferring the title of Sultan upon the Rajah of Johore had been raised.
You will find, on reference to the papers themselves, that that portion of your Despatch of the 6th of April,+ and of my reply of the 20th of May, which related to the question of conferring the title of Sultan on the Rajah of Quedah were deliberately omitted from the Parliamentary papers, and I have to explain to you that it was merely by an oversight that a corresponding omission was not made in the Index, and that the word "Johore " was substituted by a clerical error for "Quedah."
Should any question be raised by the Maharajah of Johore, or in the colony as to the point, it be desirable that you should be in a position to explain that the paragraph
may in question in the Index was founded on a mistake; on the other hand, it is not desirable that it should be generally known that the question as to the Rajah of Quedah, as to which a reference has been addressed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Her Majesty's Consul General in Siam, has been officially mooted.
I have, &c. (Signed)
CARNARVON.
SIR,
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No. 38.
The EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS,
(Telegraphic.)
K.C.M.G., C.B.
Downing Street, July 29, 1876.
I REJOICE at surrender of Lela and Pandak Indut. respecting them ?
SIR,
No. 39.
What course do you propose
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE.
Downing Street, July 29, 1876. WITH reference to the correspondence enclosed in your letter of the 21st of July,* I am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to request you to inform the Earl of Derby that this department has heard by telegraph that the Maharajah Lela and Pandak Indut have surrendered themselves, and I am to express a hope that Lord Derby will ask Mr. Consul Knox to use every endeavour to remove any impression that may exist on the King of Siam's mind that there was any intention of offering him any slight in accepting the surrender of ex-Sultan Ismail at the hands of the Rajah of Quedah.
I have, &c.
W. R. MALCOLM. (Signed)
The Under Secretary, Foreign Office,
Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois,
&c.
&c.
&c
No. 40.
No. 36.
GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF
(Telegraphic.)
CARNARVON.
(Received July 22, 1876.)
MAHARAJAH Lela and Pandak Indut have surrendered.
No. 37.
Penang, July 14.
K.C.M.G., C.B.
The EARL OF CARNARVON to GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS,
(No. 179.) SIB,
Downing Street, July 31, 1876.
I HAVE, in conjunction with the Secretary of State for War given full consideration to the views set forth in your Despatches, Nos. 186 and 195, of the 27th April and 13th of May last, and though Her Majesty's Government are not prepared to make so great a change as that involved in placing the troops at the absolute disposal of the Governor, you will see from the enclosed correspondence that provision made for the prompt execution by the military officer in command of the troops at the Straits of whatever urgent measures may be necessary for the maintenance of order.
I have, &c. (Signed) CARNARVON.
Governor Sir W. F. D. Jervois,
&c. &c. &c.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Reference :-
C.O. 882
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to CAPTAIN SPEEDY.
Downing Street, July 27, 1876.
I AM directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to acquaint you that he has received from the Governor of the Straits Settlements a Despatch reporting the circumstances under which he had allowed you to absent yourself from the post of Adjutant, which you now provisionally hold as Resident at Laroot, for six months, on the ground of urgent private affairs. His Lordship has also received your letter of the 10th instant, reporting your arrival in England.
Lord Carnarvon does not doubt that you satisfied Sir W. Jervois that the urgency of your private affairs was of so pressing a nature as to leave him no alternative but to allow you to quit your post. At the same time you will remember that it is inop- portune that your absence should occur at the present time, and that it could not be continued without serious public inconvenience.
His Lordship desires, therefore, to receive from you some explanation on this point, as well as with regard to the time at which you expect to be prepared to resume the duties of Resident.
Captain Speedy.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.
No. 41.
GOVERNOR SIR W. F. D. JERVOIS, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the EARL OF
CARNARVON, (Received August 1, 1876.)
Government House, Penang, June 16, 1876.
MY LORD,
In reference to my confidential Despatch of the 13th altimot, informing your Lordship that I had not then received from Mr. Maxwell a full explanation of his share in the hanging of the Malay named Panjang Meroo, I have the honour to forward, for your Lordship's information, copy of a report from that officer, giving detailed information as to the part which he took in that occurrence.
I have, &c.
(Signed) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS. The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
&c.
&c. Colonial Office.
&c.
No. 79 of Eastern 17a, June 1876.
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‡ No. 20.
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