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he has heen justly or unjustly accused, as we have heard repeated 

 complaints against the present reigning chief ; but you must not omit to 

 caution Seathum, as well as his followers, to attend to all orders and 

 requisitions enforced by the East India Company." 



5th. " That the sentence, which shall be pronounced by them 

 against an offender, must, in the first instance, be approved of, and 

 confirmed by us, before it can be put into execution. Such sentences 

 are also liable to be cancelled and altered by us, and our will must be 

 punctually attended to." 



6th. " They shall apprehend and send to town all evil disposed 

 persons and offenders, who may from time to time take shelter in the 

 districts of Naning. If resistance should be made on the part of 

 these persons, they shall use violence in seizing them, for we would 

 rather see them put to death than that one should escape with impu- 

 nity/' 



7th. " No individual from town, or plantations on the river side, 

 shall be permitted to proceed to Naning without previous intimation 

 being given to the Shahbandar, or Malay translator, who will issue 

 on application a written permission to that effect ; and we direct that 

 all persons, not furnished with such license, be ordered to quite Nan- 

 ing, and return to the place from whence they came." 



8th. " The inhabitants of Naning shall be permitted to export and 

 bring to market in town all sorts of minerals, timbers, fruits, &c, ex- 

 cept Sirih leaves. Oar reason for forbidding the importation of this 

 article has been several times conveyed to them. In return they 

 shall be permitted to take to Naning from hence all sorts of provi- 

 sions and necessaries." 



The following account of the circumstances attending Juara Ma- 

 gat's elevation is related on native authority. 



Sultan Abdul Jalil Shah III., king of Johore, wrote a letter to the 

 chief of the Malays at Malacca, then Capitan Malayu, Dattu Aru'm, 

 stating, that one of his subjects, Ganta Delangit, had carried off one 

 of the royal concubines to Malacca ; and desiring him most earnestly 

 to render assistance in wiping off this stain on his honor. The Capitan 

 on the receipt of this epistle summoned Juara Magat from Naning, 

 and ordered him to seek out Delangit, to put him to death, and to 

 bring down the concubine of the Sultan to Malacca. 



To this, it is said, Juara readily assented, but requested a kris from 

 the Capitan for the purpose, who gave him the choice of the whole 

 of his weapons, and on Juara's not finding one " lucky" enough, 

 desired him to go to the armourer's shop in town, and make his own 

 selection. Juara turned into a Chinese shop, near the Trangueira 

 gate, where after rejecting all the inlayed and beautifully damasked 



