202 VOLUNTEER POLICE FOR PROVINCE WELLESLEY. 
It was my intention to have availed myself of Mr. Locan’s 
assistance in inaugurating such a project when the transfer of 
the Government took all power out of my hands. 
I have perused with much interest the valuable memoir on 
the population of the Province drawn up by Mr. Logan for the 
information of the new Government. It shews what a useful 
auxiliary to the peace and safety of the community the scheme 
he advocates would prove, how easily the force could be raised 
and turned to account, and how consonant its guiding prin- 
ciples are to the habits and ideas of the people. I trust it is not 
improbable that when the new Officials have become more 
familiarised with Malay customs and feelings they will consent 
to give a trial to this force, of which it can, vat any rate, be said, 
that if not found so advantageous as its promoters assert, it can 
in no way effect the slightest possible harm. 
H. MAN, Col. M.S. ©, 
late R. C. Penang. 
February 12th, 1568. 
[The foregoing paper was printed, but not published, in Penang 
in 1868. It contains a vivid and accurate description of the com- 
position of Native Society in Penang and Province Wellesley, 
written by one of whom Colonel YutsE truly said that he ‘carried 
‘to his too early tomb a vaster knowledge of the races and regions 
“of the Indian Archipelago than any one else is likely to accumulate 
‘in our day.’—Ed. | 
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