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. with despatched a fast sailing French corvette 

 that was lying in the roads, by whom she was 

 seized, carried to Batavia, and ?o1d, the French 

 A. D. i7b^, Heg. and Dutch dividing the proceeds 

 between them. 



Rajah Hadgi in vain demanded his proportion 

 of the prize, for the more powerful confederates 

 laughed at his pretentions. Indignant at this 

 iihameless breach of agreement by the Dulch, 

 A, n. 1783. Hcf. who wcfe nat'iomiHi/ concurned in 

 Uf5» it, ihe disappointed Rajah Mood ah 



declared war against them the foilovving year. To 

 meet this declaration Francis Lenckoer, the Pre- 

 sident of the Court of Justice, vvas de^^patched to 

 Rhio from Malacca at the close of the year in 

 command of about seventeen smalt vessels and 

 six hundred troops, a most incongruous appoint- 

 inent for a man of law. Lenckner's expedition 

 tei-minated as miglit have been foreseen. He wa*» 

 not only totally defeated, and obiiged to crowH 

 all canvass in his retreat, taking with him the 

 setUers of Rhio, but also to leave behind one of 

 his vessels, which had been stranded on the bar, 

 and could not be floated off. 



Flushed with this success, Rajah Badgi deter- 

 ATD, iTW. Heg. mined the ensuing year to attack 

 iiw- Malacca ; he therefore equipped a 



fleet of one hundred and seventy vessels, carry- 

 A. im. Heg. i»^g a ^arge body of men, with which 

 iJflO' he s^ailed for the Moar River, 



The Dutch, as timorous in the hour of peril, as 

 they Irad been perfidious when the rule of the 

 strongest was theirs» despatched one of their num- 

 ber. Abraham D*Wind, a gentleman whose influ- 



