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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



by the existing engagements un- 

 der the immediate protection of 

 the British government. He de- 

 graded and affronted the heredi- 

 tary prince, lost to all sense of the 

 dutiful respect with which he him- 

 self during his prior degradation 

 had been treated by him ; nay, 

 he even publicly threatened the 

 life of the prince, and was hin- 

 dered from putting his threats into 

 execution, only by the direct in- 

 terference of the British govern- 

 ment. He refused to deliver over 

 the lands and districts ceded to 

 the late government, and confirmed 

 to the British by the last treaty. 

 He has entirely neglected and 

 overlooked every minor stipulation 

 of that treaty ; and, lastly, he has 

 been detected in intriguing with 

 the court of the Soosoonan, in vio- 

 lation of the most solemn and most 

 important engagement of all the 

 treaties, with the avowed object of 

 undermining and subverting the 

 British supremacy in Java. 



By such conduct, inimical to 

 the peace, good government, and 

 general tranquillity of the country 

 at large, the sultan has displayed 

 to the world how unworthy he is 

 of the high and important trust 

 which the British government re- 

 posed in him. He has forfeited all 

 claim to the future confidence of 

 that government, and entirely lost 

 the love and affection of his people, 

 reducing the country to a state 

 bordering upon anarchy. The 

 princes, the chiefs, and the people 

 of Djocjocarta at large, are there- 

 fore hereby informed that the 

 honourable the lieutenant-go- 

 vernor of the whole island of 

 Java and its dependencies, is 

 hereby pleased, in the name and 

 on behalf of the British govern- 



ment, to depose the present ^uU 

 tan, and in re-assuming the ad- 

 ministration of the one half of the 

 high lands of Java, known by the 

 name of the kingdom of Mataram, 

 again to delegate the same to the 

 present Pangeran Adipati, who is 

 hereby proclaimed sultan of Ma- 

 taram, under the title of the Ha- 

 mangkubuana the third. 



All persons are therefore re- 

 quired to obey him as their law- 

 ful sovereign ; and it is hereby de- 

 clared, that all who presume to 

 abet the dethroned prince in his 

 pretensions to the gevernment, 

 will be considered as traitors to 

 their country, and dealt with ac- 

 cordingly. That no person may 

 plead ignorance of this proclama- 

 tion, the same is directed to be 

 translated into the Javanese lan- 

 guage, and affixed at the gates of 

 the Craton at the British fort and 

 residentiary-house, and in such 

 other public places as proclama- 

 tions and publications were usually 

 affixed. 



Done at Djocjocarta, this 18th 

 day of June, 1812, by me, the 

 lieutenant-governor of the island of 

 Java, and its dependencies. 



( Signed ) T. S. Raffles. 



By order of the Honourable the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, 

 J. Craufurd, 

 Resident at Mataram. 



Declaration of the Prince Regent. 



The earnest endeavours of the 

 prince regent tp preserve the rela- 

 tions of peace and amity with the J 

 United States of America having - 1 

 unfortunately failed, his royal 

 highness, acting in the name-and 

 on the behalf of his majesty, deems 



