1847.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 7\7 



(No. 461.) 

 From the Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 

 To the Secretary to the Asiatic Society, 

 Steam. Dated, Fort William, the 19th May, 1847. 



Letter from the Governor of P. W Sir —I am directedto transmit for 



Island, Singapore and Malacca, No. 31 ... „ . „ _ 



of 27th February, 1847. tiie information of the Society a copy 



Ditto Mint Master of Calcutta No. 456, f t h e Correspondence noted in the 



dated 30th ultimo, 1 Enclosure. . x 



Ditto to Governor of P. VV. Island Sin- margin regarding a specimen of Coal 



gapore and Malacca, No. 469, dated 19th discovered in Junk Ceylon< 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



A. R. Young, 



Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



(No. 31.) 

 From the Governor of P. W. Island, Singapore and Malacca, 

 To C. Beadon, Esq., Under-Secretary to the Goverment of Bengal, Fort 

 William. Dated, Singapore, 27th February, 1847. 



Sir,— My letter under date the 26th July 1845, No. 124, will have made 

 the Hon'ble the Deputy Governor of Bengal acquainted with my belief 

 that Coal was to be found in the vicinity of Penang, and although I failed at 

 that time, in discovering the mineral, yet I did not relax my inquiries, and 

 I am now enabled to report very satisfactorily on the subject. 



On the recent return of the Hon'ble East India Company's Steamer 

 Hooghly from the Northern end of the Straits, after conveying the Hon'ble 

 Recorder, and Court Establishment to Penang, Captain Congalton brought 

 me a specimen of Coal which had been deposited by some person at the 

 Harbour Master's Office ; search had been made for the party without avail, 

 and I apprehended that I should be again baffled, when I was favored with a 

 letter, regarding the said Coal, by the Resident Councillor at Penang, a copy 

 of which I beg to enclose. 



The Hon'ble the Deputy Governor will observe that the Coal now dis- 

 covered, (a specimen of which I beg to forward for the purpose of being 

 tested,) is found on the Southern Coast of the Island of Junk Ceylon, which 

 is not far from the River Gurbie, on the Malayan Peninsula, where my for- 

 mer search was made, and if we may judge from the seam noticed by Kong 

 Kiyon, who brought in the Coal, there must be a large quantity available. 



I do not think that Kong Kiyon is competent to enter into the engage- 

 ment proposed by the Resident Councillor at Penang, or that we should be 

 justified in making any agreement with him to supply the mineral from the 

 territory of our Ally, the King of Siam, without previously ascertaining 



