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TREATY or KEDAH, 



any other natron to settle iti 

 my part of his domiaiotis* 



TREATY O F SI AM. 



in Quedat and the Siamese 

 shtU not Urm the mouths of 

 rivers, or any slrcaraa in Que- 

 dah, but illall levy fair and 

 proper import and export du- 

 ties. 



At tide 13fA— The English 

 enera'^e to the Siamese, ilut 

 the English do not deshc to 

 take po»i«rssion of Queda, 

 lhat they will not attack or 

 diaturb it. nor pemnit the /or - 

 mer Governor 0/ Queda at 

 : any of hi» followers to attack , 

 ' dvBlurbj or tnjiire» in any man- 

 ner, the Territory of Quedt, or 

 any other Teniiory wjbject lo 

 Sianij Arc. 



Article lih — The Company 



are not to receive any such 



people OB may be proved to 



have coTOEnitted rebellion or 



High Treason a^&inU His 



Mnjesiy, ' 

 These fourteen articles bemg 



■Pttlfd and concluded lietween 



ft V Rnd the En^ish 



Lv: I . ihecouatries of Pur- 



lis and Queda, and Pub Pi^ 

 t\nng shall be sh ont country, 

 whoever shall depart or d*>vialfi 

 from any part of this agree- 

 ment, the Almighty punish and 

 destroy him^he shall not 

 prosper. 



1 will here iiUrodtice Sir Stamford RafBes s opi- 

 nion on the subject of the relation between Siam 

 and Kedali. m detailed in a ktler of his addressed 

 to Lord Minto in March ISl L 1 sliall content my- 

 self with a few extracts from it. referring those, 

 who wish to see the whole of it, to the 48th and 

 following pages of Sir Stamford s Memoirs. 



Qtieda is one of the Malay states that ap- 

 pears at some period to have been overrtin by the 

 Siamese, and has accordingly comented to send, 

 every third year, a gold and silver flower a?» a 

 token of homage. The value of these articles is 

 as trifling as need be supposed, the wei(^ht of the 

 gold flower being only twelve dollars, and that 

 of the silver one thirty-two dollars. There \s 

 therefore reason for considering the land ot Qnc- 

 da as a dependency on Siam at present, but cftr- 

 tainly none whatever for sttpposing thai Siam 



