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length he was left with a Spartan hand of thirty 

 individuals who preferred death to slavery. 



This tieroic little party nianatred, however, to 

 keep the whole Siuiuese force at bay for a consi- 

 derable period. On the 4th Octoder 1831. the 

 latter" n>a.ie a ^rand attack upon the f(»rt of Ke- 

 dah ; and Tuankuo Koodeeu, after a hrave resist- 

 ance, and receiving several won nd<?, finding his 

 efforts unavailins-, instated to have called a fa- 

 vorite chief to bis side, and the ivpo, on aprecon- 

 certed sii^nal, deprived each other of existence 

 by she-dthing their Kri.*es in their bosoms^. The 

 Siame>te now entered the fort and put the re- 

 mainder of its gallant deftnders to the sword. 

 The total t<fe* of lives on both sides is estimated 

 by the writer of the account in the Singapore 

 Chronicle, (whence the materials of this'state- 

 ment arc drawn), at from mx to ten thousand, 

 principally Siamese, who suffered more in consa^ 

 quence of their preponderance of numbers. The 

 estimate is ho extremely vague that it is impossi- 

 hie to draw any just conclusion from it. 



Whilst i\m struggle was going on, vh, from 

 June mi, the king of Kedah was kept a stale 

 prii*oner in Pmang until towards the end of the 

 yearvv'hen, in consequence of the Siamese de- 

 manding that the Sritii^h i^hould car into effect 

 that cliiuseofthe 13th Article of the Treaty which 

 nipulates that they shall make arrangements 

 for the former Governor of Queda to go and 

 live in some other country, and not at Prince of 

 Wales 8 Island, or Prye, or in Perak, Saian-ore, 

 or any Burmese country;' the Government was 

 compelled to request the unfortunate Hajah to 

 remove to iMalacca. As he did not feel willin* 



