" This petty king: was, for many years, tributary 

 to Siam, but is at* present independent," to 

 whicb sentence there is the following foot note 

 appended. " It was tributary in 1686, accord- 

 ing to Chmsy, page 523, but, passibly, the kings 

 of Siam always reckon as tlieir tributaries those 

 stales, which have at any time been so. The 

 city of Qiieda was destroyed by the Porui- 

 gueses under James de Mendez Furtaflo in J 014. 

 De Faria, Portug. Asia, Vol. Ill, p 197." 



SirStamfurd Raffles, after some other obser- 

 vations, proceeds thus; 



As to the opinion haxarded by Mr. Scott, 

 with regard to the means ofavoiding the evils con- 

 sequent to a Siamese invasion, f it is only necessa- 

 ry to state that the claims of the Siamese on Pulo 

 Finang are quite as good as any on other part of 

 the Quedah territory ; and that, if Quedah were 

 subdued, and made a province of Siam. we would 

 find it impossible to dtfend our tliin strip of 

 mangrove marsh, three miles broad, and must 

 consequently re.^ign it with its mhabitants, 

 amounting at present to the number of five thou- 

 j*aod persons, to the devastations of the Siamese, 

 i have no doubts but we should be able to de- 

 fend our settlement of Pulo Pinang against the 

 whole force of the Siamese territory, but have 



• Captain Haroiltan wbo mu in Ihwe parU In If 08. 

 io lrir?t;aih«^i^' of rcfn^f T''^'^^ ott,.n*-i.c, the land, of Ktd^ 



joii nyvrs, and inJiind hy the mor.n i Ji vidl K . ' !^ " 



giumf rbe \v].olc compmiog .tmot i . . , . .Viti of fin. 



dJf culii.ltion: Mr ' ' U^nr br.up«K U nil ua- 



KrHah a. Th*^ . wf ^ ' ' ! ' . J s % II OD tlie BHuib lo 4«fc£ia 

 liedah »H tbcvru in Ihk suiumaiT of his opinipn 



