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Envoy asbigiK-d it to her, (if a person can make 

 a present of what does not belong to him), grati- 

 tude to the donor might have induced the other 

 party to remit the duties as a set off against the 

 gift. But we find, on the contrary, that, as a re- 

 ward for tlie Siamese forbearing to levy duties to 

 which tbey vvere not entitled, the English cn- 

 gai^e to the Siamese that the English do not de- 

 sire to take pos5e$5ion of Queda, that they will 

 not att.ick or (nor?) di.sturb it, nor pes mi t the 

 former Governor of Qtiedah or anv -f his follow- 

 ers, to attack, disturb," Src. 



Nay, further, that they will not even allow 

 " the former Governcjr of Queda," to live in 

 any country in the vicinity of that kingdom 

 fiOin which he has been unjustly expelled. 



In reading this contract, signed by a British 

 plenipotentiary, how painful is it to the mind of 

 a Briton to find amongst the proscribed coun- 

 tries, the British settlementsof Prince of Wales*s 

 Island and Piye* the gift of the father ©f that 

 prince, who is now denied a resting place for his 

 age and infirmitie^i in tKat very patrimony which 

 he ceded to the English on the express condition 

 of protection from the Siamese ! — 



1 need only remark on two other points in this 

 Article ; viz. in the first place, that the king of 

 Kedah as herein degraded (toin his acknowledged 

 rightful title, and purposely and contemptuously 

 denominated " Governor ; ' and secondly that 

 the English engage that they will not attack Ke- 

 dah themselves, nor '* allow the former Governor, 

 or any of his adherents" to do so. Naw it ap- 

 pears that, in 178B, when the Supreme Govern- 

 ment was urged by Mr. Light to protect its ally. 



