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mediately blockaded Kwala Selangor with two ships-of-war 
and after this blockade had lasted for more than a vear the 
Sultan accepted a treaty by which he acknowledged their 
sovereignty and agreed to hold his kingdom of them. 
8. British political relations with Selangor commenced in 
1818, when a commercial treaty was concluded with this State 
by a British Commissioner, Mr. CRACROFT, on behalf of the 
Governor of Penang, and this was followed by “an agreement 
of peace and friendship,’ concluded with Sultan [BRAHIM 
SHAH, who was still reigning. 
g. Sultan MOHAMMED succeeded Sultan IBRAHIM about 
the year 1826, and reigned until 1856. He was succeeded in 
the following year by Sultan ABDUL SAMAD, the present 
ruler. 
10. Sultan ABDUL SAMAD is the son of Raja DOLAH, a 
younger brother of Sultan MOHAMMED, and at the time of the 
death of the latter, held the rank and office of Tunku Pangli- 
ma Besar (Commander-in-Chief). His eleetion to the sover- 
eignty was chiefly the work of Raja JuMa’AT, of Lukut, then 
a flourishing mining settlement, now decayed and abandoned, 
who feared the exactions of the late Sultan’s family. Sultan 
MOHAMMED had no less than 1g children, many of them ille- 
gitimate, and one of them, Raja MAHMUD (now Penghulu of 
Ulu Semonieh, a village in Selangor), had been recognised 
as Raja Muda in his father’s life-time. He was only eight 
years old when Sultan MOHAMMED died. ‘There were other 
claimants in the persons of various nephews of the late Sultan, 
sons of Raja USup and Raja ABDURRAHMAN, who thought 
their rights stronger than those of the sons of Raja DOLAH. 
But the influence of Raja JUMA’AT prevented a war of suc- 
cession. 
ir. The strong Bugis element in Selangor earned for the 
people of the State, in early days, the reputation of being the 
most daring and formidable of all the Malays on the west 
coast of the Peninsula. Their fleets were successful in Perak 
and Kedah (Alor Star in Kedah was taken and burned in 
1770), and in a work published fifty years ago, Selangor is 
quaintly described as follows:—‘ of all the Malayan States 
“on the Peninsula, it labours under the heaviest ma/a fama on 
