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dominions; an immenfe quantity of rice, coffee, fugar, pepper, 

 cotton, and yir(?^^ ; all thele are bought at the price the con- 

 fciences of the company fix, which is certainly not at the higheft 

 rate. Falfe weights are in general ufe with the company's fer- 

 vants, nor are they in any danger of being called to account, as 

 it tends to the fervice of their congenial mafters. Pepper is the Pepper. 

 great commodity of the illand ; Bantam furniQies the Dutch 

 with three millions of pounds annually. 



Let us now pafs on to the illand of Madura, in Lat. 7° fouth. 



The Dutch picked a quarrel with its prince in the year 1747, Prince of 

 who, after feeing his country invaded, his fubjedls maflacred, and Tragical 

 his own ruin to be certain, colledted all his treafures, and with 

 his yoang fon, wives, concubines, and a few feledt friends, fled 

 to Borneo in hopes of an afylum. He was clofely purfued, but 

 by putting into creeks and inlets, for a fhort time cfcaped ; the 

 unhappy fugitives fet fail in the night, and retreated into their 

 hiding places in the day. At length, to their great joy, they faw 

 a fhip with EngliJJj colors. They flung themfelves on the pro- 

 tedlion of the commander, who received the prince and his trea- 

 fure. The Dutch Guarda cojla came up with him ; as he knew 

 force could not prevale, he by treachery feized on the EngliJIj 

 captain, put him into irons, nor would he fet him at liberty, till 

 the unhappy prince was delivered into the power of his ene- 

 mies. Grown defperate, he barricaded the cabin ; it was forced 

 open ; jealous of the honor of his women, he ftabbed two to the 

 heart; others equally delicate flung themfelves over board. 

 OpprefTed with numbers, and greatly wounded, the aged fultan 

 was feized, and conveyed to Batavia^ and from thence to the 

 2, wretched 



