176 ADDRESS TO QUEEN VICTORIA. [1844. 



At length the Sultan, motioning the Rajah to him, 

 said, " my father enjoined me at his death to be guided 

 by your counsel, and I intend to do so;" and feeling 

 suddenly ill, retired, desiring Mr. Brooke "to consider 

 the Rajah as conducting affairs." On the retirement 

 of the Sultan, the Rajah immediately assumed the 

 power, and arraigning Pangeran Usop with his im- 

 politic acts, sent the remaining Ministers to the Sultan, 

 accompanied by Pangeran Usop, to propose the imme- 

 diate razing of the batteries, in order that no further 

 offence should, by possibility, be offered, from this 

 source, to Great Britain. Upon the return of the 

 Ministers, with the formal assent of the Sultan thereto, 

 orders were forthwith issued for " their demolition before 

 dawn/' Pangeran Usop was mildly treated, and per- 

 mitted to act in an inferior station; he was evidently 

 much pleased that he did not fare worse, and it is highly 

 probable that the presence of Mr. Brooke tended much 

 to this desirable end. Affairs having been thus arranged, 

 a document, addressed to the Queen of England, was 

 duly completed, and the seals of the Sultan and Pange- 

 rans formally attached, requesting the friendship of Great 

 Britain, and offering aid in the suppression of piracy ; 

 and, as a further proof of their anxiety for the advantages 

 of commercial relations, offering to cede the Island of 

 Labuan, and its dependencies, upon terms to be hereafter 

 agreed upon. 



THE SULTAN OF BRUNAI TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. 



" THIS Document is addressed by the Sultan, and the Kajah Muda 

 Hassim, as Rulers of the territory of Borneo, to the Queen of England. 

 The Sultan, and the Rajah Muda Hassim, desire to gain the friendship 



