10 HIS ADDRESS. 



he afraid to come on board ? here are plenty of 

 Europeans." And thus concluded an address 

 replete with excellent sense and sound discri- 

 mination — " I appeal to your English laws 

 whether I have not decided justly, and accord- 

 ing to the treaty solemnly ratified between the 

 Sri Sultan Alia, Iddeen Jowhara, AUum, Shah, 

 Sultan of Acheen, and the British govern- 

 ment?" 



One of the commanders, who afterwards asked 

 the rajah to give up the vessel as a matter of 

 courtesy, received the following sensible reply — 

 " Would one of your men-of-war surrender a 

 prize which had been proved a legal capture ?" 

 He then added, that the vessel should be 

 taken to Acheen, and when there, if found by 

 his brother, the rajah of Acheen, to be illegally 

 seized, she should be returned forthwith to 

 Penang, and the owners indemnified for her de- 

 tention, and any damage she might have sus- 

 tained while in their possession.* 



The rajah is a fine and handsome young man, 



* I understand that no arms or warlike stores are per- 

 mitted to be exported for Penang, or any other of our settle- 

 ments for this coast; if the Acheenese king requires any, 

 he sends a requisition to the government of Penang, who 

 supplies him at fifteen per cent, above the cost price, to 

 cover the expenses of freight, &c. 



