SINGAPORE. 



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Here wc recDivDcl tlio intclligenco of anotlior I'cvolutioii 

 in France, tlic proclajnatioii of the llcpuWic, and of Louis 

 PliHippc being a rcfiigeo in England. 



We found Commodore Plumridgc's broad pennant 

 flying on board the Ctimkrum ; the late conunauder- 

 iii-cliief. Admiral Ingleficld, having died at Bombay. 



On the 22nd our [iiisaeiigei"s landed, Mr. Brooke beiiig 

 received with all the honours due to a governor ; and on 

 tlie following day j>reparations were commenced for 

 esfeablisMng the new colony. An ofiicc was upened in 

 Sincaporc, and contracts received for the frame- works of 

 the temporary residences to be erected for the Government 

 functionaries. 



On tlic banks of a small stream — tlio rcndcy.vous, until 

 1819^ of only a few Malay trading pralius — now stands the 

 rich and extensivo town of Siucaporo, By no act of his 

 life did Sir Stamford Raffles manifest greatci^ thscernment 

 and foresight, tlian by founding this settlement. In 

 I824j five years after its first catahUshment, the population 

 amoimted to 11,000, "the magical result,'* says its 

 emiuout founder, of a perfect freedom in trade/' Tliis 

 number had ah-eady doubled itself when I saw the place 

 for the fii*st time in 1833 ; and it ha.s continued to 

 increase ever since in the same rapid way. Sincitpore 

 has now become the commercial emporium of all the 

 trading cnmmunities of the Eastern Arehii>elago, as 

 well as of that extensive tr-adc wliich is carried on by all 

 nations with China and Indin. Hither nho rijsort, now 



