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bearded by Siara, whose fleet had the presump- 

 tion tu attempt to enter the Prye river, not being 

 aware of two important facts ; viz ; that the king 

 of Kedah was no Itmger in it, and that two of the 

 Compauys Gruizers wert:. TJie?=e two vessels, 

 without waiting for orders and with the charac- 

 teristic proiiiptitude of British sailors, at once 

 drove the intruders back again, and the Go- 

 vernmeBt directed that any future attempt of 

 the same nature should be treated in a similar 

 manner. 



The Rajah of Ligore. who commanded the 

 Siamese army, finding that the king of Kedah 

 had taken refuge in Pinang, wrote a letter to the 

 Government, which was couched in haughty and 

 discourteous terms, desiring that authority to de- 

 liver up the unhappy prince, to which he receiv- 

 ed a dignified ami firm refusal, accompanied with 

 an admonition as to his style of future correspon- 

 dence with the British Government. The Siamese, 

 having detached a predatory incursion against 

 Province Wellesley, it was speeddy driven back 

 and disarmed by a party of the 20th Bengal Na- 

 tive Infantry under Captain Crooke. The second 

 son of the king of Kedah, Tuankoo Yakoob, who 

 was his father s favorite, was taken prisoner and 

 sent bound to Siam, whilst the Bandharra, for 

 whose life the Pinang Government earnestly in- 

 terceded, was poisoned on the road to Sangora. 



Mr. Timmerman Thyssen . the Governor of Ma- 

 lacca, on hearing of this unwarrantable aggression 

 of the Siamese, immediately despatched one of his 

 Netherlands Majesty's frigate* to Pinang with 

 himd^^ome offers of assistance, a proffer which 

 was echoed by several Malay states, so that, even 



