278 BRITISH CONNECTION WITH MALAYA. 
transferred to Singapore. The revenue and trade of Penang have 
increased remarkably in the last fifteen years. 
Singapore. 
Singapore is an island about 27 miles long by 14 wide, con- 
taining an area of 206 square miles, situated at the southern 
extremity of the Malay Peninsula, from which it is separated by 
a narrow strait about three-quarters of a mile in width. There are 
a number of small islands adjacent to it which form part of the 
Settlement. 
The seat of Government, for the whole Colony as well as the Set- 
tlement, is the town of Singapore, at the southern point of the 
island, in lat. 1° 16’ North, and long. 103° 53’ East. 
Singapore was occupied by Sir StamForpD RaFFLes, acting under 
the authority of Lord Hastines, on the 6th February, 1819, by 
virtue of a Treaty with the Malayan princes of Johor. It was 
at first subordinate to Bencoolen in Sumatra, of which RaFFLES was 
then Lieut.-Governor ; but in 1823 it was placed under the Govern- 
ment of Bengal. It was afterwards, as above stated, incorporated 
with Penang and Malacca, and finally became the seat of Govern- 
ment (1837). 
Its rapid progress was, at that time, unparallelled. On the 11th 
June. 1819, RarFies wrote home: ‘“ My new Colony thrives most 
“rapidly. We have not been established four months, and it has 
“‘received an accession of population exceeding 5,000, principally 
“Chinese, and their number is daily increasing.” 
Nor has it disappointed the expectations then formed of its 
future ; both its general and local Trade and its Revenues having, 
for many years, exceeded that of all competitors. 
The Protected Native States. 
The Protected States comprise three “ Residencies,’ all on the 
western side of the Peninsula, between Province Wellesley and 
Malacea, viz. :—Pérak ( August, 1874), Sélangor and bund Ujoug 
( December, 1874 ). 
