mungong did, and there signed. The Treaty of 

 Singapore." by which that island was ceded ia 

 perpetuity to the British for the a. d. i821. Heg. 

 montiily sum of four thousand Spa- 

 nish dollars. The island being thus ceded by 

 both the brothers, it became a matter of indiffer- 

 ence to the British Govemmeat which of them 

 succeeded to the throne of Johore. 



Meanwhile, Rajah Japhar, alarmed at this re- 

 newed resolution of Tuankoo Abdul Rachman to 

 abdicate, applied to the Java Government for its 

 interference,, and. as the Dutch settlement of 

 Rhio was involved in the q nest ion of succession, 

 this was promptly, though not ostensibly, afford- 

 ed. A brig under Dutch colors conveyed Ra- 

 jah Japhar to Tringano, aud Abdul Rachman 

 was tiually persuaded to return to Linggin, The 

 Governor of Malacca, (my readers may remem- 

 ber that this settlement had reverted to the Dutch 

 in 1818), Timmerman Thyssen, accompanied by 

 Mr. A. Koek and others, proceeded to Palo Fini- 

 gad, when, finding that no arguments could induce 

 Tuankoo Pootri to resign the regalia, he had re- 

 course to intimidation, and, it is said, marched a 

 body of troops, with their pieces loaded, into the 

 presence chamber. Having, by these means, ob- 

 tained possession o( the insignia of royalty, the 

 Dutch Commissioners delivered them over to 

 Tuankoo Abdul Rachman at Rhio in 1823, and 

 that prince was solemnly inveated with them to 

 the exclusion of his brother, Tuankoo Houssain, 

 whose party was thus rendered too weak to af- 

 ford any further ground of apprehension to the 



