CHAPTER IIL 



lutrodnctory remarks — .Va/ices of ihe Slates of Saianffur, 

 Cohng J Trin^ano ; SuUhaua of Trinffano refuses to pa^ 

 icmui^e to Siam— Offers the British a seit (entente vjfkich ms 

 declined^Seeks an aiiutnce wiih the BiUcK which is alio 

 not accepted— Cnilaa tan, formerly a Dependency of ilfa- 

 laccat never subjugated by Siam — Pa/a»i, Pakang, Perak. 

 — Perak rtt/uses to send the B^inga Mas to Siam — ICedah 

 ordered that power to attack it — Ueluctantly does to 

 iund subjugates il — Recovered hf the Rajah &f SaluvQor — 

 Dutch factory at Perak — English enter into a Treaty with 

 the Rctjah — Kedah formerly subject to Malacca — Repeat* 

 edly threatened by Siam^Offers a settlemmt to the Bri- 

 tish on vondttton of protection^Settiemani accepted onoto- 

 thfitd terms — Remarks on the conduct 0/ Government — 

 Ei^tracts from Mr. Light's letter to the Governor General 

 ^The Kin^ of Kedah's letter to the same-^ History of the 

 Siamese iwasion, S^c.-^ Honorable behaviour of the Pinang 

 Government and Mr^ Crawford to the unfoTtunate Rajah 

 — Major Burney\ celebrated Treaty with Siam — Strictures 

 upon it — Comparison bettoeen the two Trmties of Siam and 

 Kedah — Sir Stamford Raffies*s opinion on Siamese policy. 

 History of Kedah continued. Tuankoo Kooden, nephew of 

 the Kin^ of Kedah, asserts the independence of kit country. 

 Proclaimed as a Pirate by the Pirantj Oovcrnment. Na- 

 uat action between the Siamese and Kedan Jteets. 11, M. 

 S. Wolf turns the scale by pounng a broadside into ihe lat* 

 ter, Tuankoo K&odeen, after a tony and brave resistance, 

 u defeated, and destroys htmsdf. The Kiuy of Kedah it 

 compelled by the British Government to yo to Malacca in 

 perpetual exile. Siamese violate the treaty of Siam, 

 Concladtny remarJu:, 



IN adverting to the settlement of Pinang, Ke- 

 dah, with which it is so iatrtuately connected, 

 naust occupy aprominent space : To treat upon this 



