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Palembang in 1811 and 1812

Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 1953-01, Vol.109 (4), p.300-320 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright 1953 John Bastin ;Copyright KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 1953 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90002395

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  • Title:
    Palembang in 1811 and 1812
  • Author: Bastin, John
  • Subjects: Brothers ; Countries ; Dutch language ; Friendship ; Indian English ; Libraries ; Malay ; Massacres ; Personality ; Raffles ; Reference letters ; Representation letters ; Translations ; Treaties ; War
  • Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 1953-01, Vol.109 (4), p.300-320
  • Description: ' 20 306 PALEMBANG IN 1811 AND 1812. purpose of explaining and communicating with the Princes of the Eastern Courts on the subject of many Malay Prows and Vessels having been lately captured by the English ships of war. .. Since my arrival at Malacca I have heard with much concern of the approach of a Dutch force to the mputh of the Palembang River, and I lose no time in dispatching this letter to put your Majesty on your guard against the evil machinations of the Dutch, a Nation that is desirous of enriching itself from the property of your Majesty as it has done with that of every Prince of the East with which it has had connection. The deed of Treaty proposed by Raffles was: "Whereas we Paduka Sultan Sri Ratu of Palembang, &c. &c. having long had reason to suspect the sincerity of the Dutch Government towards us and our Dominions, and late circumstances having convinced us of their sinister disposition, want of faith, and rapacious spirit of aggrandizement, evincing itself as well by ther proceedings towards other neigh-bouring states, as in the late intrusion of a hostile force with [an] attempt at the clandestine introduction of warlike stores, and the unpermitted establishment of a military post within our Territory; apprehensive of our danger from continuing the connexion with a Power of late equally regardless of individual rights as general alliances; and viewing the [striking] difference of principle which apparently actuates the British Government -in their intercourse with all native states,... do by these Presents cancel all engagements that we have hitherto entered into with that nation, embracing, under the following stipulations, the protection of the British Government on whom we rely for the future prosperity and welfare of our Dominion. The English holding such immense Territories and Power on the Continent of India,... cannot in their proceedings Eastward be actuated by the rapacious and greedy conduct that has distinguished the Dutch,... the views of the British being principally directed, first, to the expulsion of their European enemies; secondly, to the relief and support of the legally established Native Authorities,... and thirdly, to the full establishment of one general system of commercial policy throughout Eastern and Western India, the principle of which must tend no less to the prosperity of the regular Native Ports, than to the utter annihilaion of all future misunderstandings, and subjection of such Ports to the European law of blockade, which as connected with such [an] Enemy, they must otherwise be occasionally liable to. 5. 313 In a letter to the Sultan explaining his wishes, Raffles regretted that he had not sent an accredited Agent to confer with him at Malacca. Because the shortness of time he has had to entrust the negociation to Radin Mahomet, (LETTER G.) "to propose that your Majesty, in consideration of the late intrusion of the Dutch force, with [the] attempt at [a] clandestine introduction of warlike stores, and the establishment, without your permission of a military post at Tulang Bawang, should in cancelling all engagements with them, throw yourself on the protection of the British Government by a spontaneous tender of the' following terms: [Here follow the various articles set out in the proposed Treaty.] In order the more fully to explain the motives that urge the necessity of immediate arrangements I have communicated to my Agent Tunco Radin Mahomed such further considerations as I flatter myself must weigh with your Majesty.
  • Publisher: Netherlands: Brill
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
    EISSN: 2213-4379
    DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90002395
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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