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been tributary to Siam during this reign, is ill 

 fofinded, 



A. ». i47T,H(:g. On the decease of Sulthaun AI.i-ed- 

 diiT, his son the Hajah Mood^>^i as- 

 cended the throjie under the title of isiikhauri Ma- 

 homed Shall, or Sulthauii Mahmud Shab, being 

 the second of that namt>. This prince, by n^eans 

 of his generals^ conquered ti»e Malay states of 

 Perak, Callantan «nd Pausei; and reduced Pabang, 

 which appears to have revolted, to its prtjuioe 

 ybedience. The Pangeran of Sourabaya, on the 

 island t.f Java, also paid his respects ai Malacca, 

 which is represented to have been more flourish- 

 ing than ever during this reign. 



The Uajah of Siam directed the Rajah of Ligor 

 to attack Pahang, and recover it from the control 

 of Malacca, but Sulthaun Mahomed Shah having 

 speedily re-inforced it, the Ligorians were com- 

 pletely routed, and the attempted, frustrated. 

 The Malay states of Patani and Kedah, or Que- 

 dah, also received the nou/mts, or insigtiia of roy- 

 alty from Malacca. The foregoing statements 

 prove that, of the Malayan slates enumerated m 

 ])age 2, Patani, Kedah, Caliantan, Pahang, Perak, 

 Pasei> and Tringanowere subject to Malacca, it- 

 self an independent state, and that the claim of 

 the Siamese to these ^ Tributaries, which has 

 been so confidently insisted on by some writers, 

 is not founded on fact. I shall in another place 

 examine tlie pretensions upon which these asser- 

 tions have been made, not only with reference to 



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