201 — xxxvi— 



greater, certainly riot lens, by the employment of a separate stipen- 

 diary establishment of strangers — Chnliahs or Chinese. Abuse of 

 power can only be prevented by constant local supervision of the 

 Public Servants of Government, and whether the rights of Govern- 

 ment are redeemed or left with proprietors, the occasional presence 

 and inspection of Public Officers is indispensable. The expense of 

 erecting a few bungalows in different parts of the country would 

 be very trifling, and I propose that no time be lost in their com- 

 mencement. They should be built at different directions, at intervals 

 of from six to ten miles, ** and the roads between them made and 

 kept in repair. To facilitate the means of communication is the 

 first step to improvement and extension of cultivation. When 

 ready means of access are afforded, when men find that they arc 

 alike secure at a distance from the town as they are on the spot, 

 the lands then will be occupied and brought into cultivation, and it 

 is only when that general protection shall have been f ulty establish- 

 ed that we can expect Malacca to assume the appearance of a 

 British Settlement. The communication between the Public Offi- 

 cers and the people should be at all times direct, free and unreserved. 

 The interest of Government can never be separated from the pros- 

 perity, protection and happiness of the people. We can, therefore, 

 have no object in deceit or concealment of our intention towards 

 them, and from the knowledge possessed by Mr. Lewis of the 

 language, habits and customs of the Malays in general, I am led to 

 hope his endeavours will be successful in leading the inhabitants 

 of the Malacca Territories fully to understand and duly to appre- 

 ciate our views in regard to them. 



APPENDIX III. 



COURT OF JUDICATURE OF PRINCE OF WALES' 

 ISLAND, SINGAPORE AND MALACCA. 



Malacca, ilie 7 th day of March, 1829. 



Before Sir John Thomas Claridge, Recorder, and Samuel 

 Gar ling, Esquire, Resident Councillor. 



* At Nailing, at or about Tualang Hill ; at or about Pangkalan Naning; at 

 AyerPanas; at ralf- distance : at the Popper Plantation; at Supan Hill: at- 

 Garling Hill ; at Lingy. 



