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a tortuous policy was free " with all the world 

 before him." He is now residing id obscurity and 

 indigence at Malacca under the more mitd and 

 generous government of the British, Prior to this 

 exchange of settlements, viz. in 1S24, Rhio was 

 finally separated from Malacca, and has ever 

 since continued under the Dutch administration. 



As, on the English obtaining posse^^sion of Ma- 

 lacca, Prince of Wales's Island and Singapore 

 were united with it under one Governmeot, it 

 will be necessary now to bring up the affairs of 

 Pinang to the period of union before I proceed to 

 detail the subsequent events connected with the 

 British Government, and, in order to do so clear- 

 ly, it will be requisite to notice many of the Ma- 

 layan states. In the succeeding chapter they will 

 merely be treated of with reference to their poU- 

 tical relations, as I purpose to embrace the other 

 points of interest in a subsequent portion of these 

 pages. 



