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When this combination of circumstances did, 

 at a subsequent period, arise, we find England 

 at the foot of Siam, insitead of making her own 

 terms ; we find lier, instead of stipulating for the 

 independence of the Peninsula, yielding her an* 

 cieut ally, and other independent states, tamely 

 and unrei?ervedly to this rapacious power> receiv- 

 ing »u other remuneration than vague promisees 

 of future co-operation, which were never fulfilled. 



The Siamese, by their numberlcRs atrocities, 

 rendered the oppressed KedanK ripe for resist- 

 ance, as soon as they could obtain a leader on 

 whom they could depend. They naturally look* 

 ed to the ex-royal family of Kedah for a chief, at 

 a time when their kiug himself was a prisoner, 

 guarded by his allies, and they found him in Tu- 

 ankoo Koodeen, the nephew of the deposed mo- 

 narch, or *' former Governor" of Kedah. But 

 the Siamese dreaded this warrior as much as his 

 own party looked up to him, and endeavoured 

 in a mo:^t dastardly manner to rid themselves of 

 their opponent. The RjUowing statement of the 

 transaction is founded upon a letter which ap- 

 peared in the Singapore Chronicle of the 5th 

 Januarv 1832. 1 believe it to be substantially 

 correct, and therefore give it to the public. 



I have already stated that T uankoo Koodeen 

 was a nephew of the King of Kedah, but 1 have 

 not meiitioned that his father was an Arab of Fa- 

 lembang, from vvhmn it is probable thai he deriv- 

 ed that indomitable perseverance and fortitude 

 whicl) so eminently distiuginshed him irt the 

 struggle which he maiutaiaed for the Uberti«s of 

 Kedah. 



His family Lad been in the enjoyment of a 



