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10 be baaisbed for.^vor from his tiativo lan<|. and 

 the aulliorities fe'.t relueUnt to enforce tlie Frea- 

 tv of Siam by the bayonet, the only method of 

 inducing him toaceede. ^vithout ll.e apphcat.on 

 of force, which was left to the Government was 

 thereduetioa of the annual tribute of ten thou- 

 sand dollars per mumm, or •'-33^ per mouth. «tv. 

 pulated to be pnid by the British so long as they 

 retained Pinang. to 600 dollars per nu,„an r-M 

 8„ch time as he crabbed. With much reluc- 

 tance and compelled by want, he at leoKth em- 

 barked in July or A.igust 183t. and in Septem- 

 ber 1S32, the Governor (ieneral. with whom the 

 son of the now ex-rajah had an interview in Cal- 

 cutta, directed, on learuin- tt.e stnte of the case, 

 that ll.e .tii.ulate.1 price, with all the accumula- 

 tion of arrears, should be paid to the unfortuDate 



exile. , , 



Yet this Treaty, which has been ihe nu>ans of 

 aecun^uUting so many evils on Kedab—'-o much 

 embaiTassment, not to use a stronger te- m, on 

 thtf British Government, has been violalcd by 

 the Siamese themselves. The 12th ArticU sU- 

 pulates that " Siam shall not go and obstruct, or 

 . iiiternipt, commerce in ihestates of Triu-uno and 

 Calantan." In 1832 the Siamese alUcked Pata- 

 ni whose Rajah Hed to Calsntan, which place 

 Uicy immediat*;ly iaveited with a fleet ol seven- 

 ty war boats, and demanded the person of the 

 Rajah of Patani. as well as those of the four bro- 

 thers who ruled over tlie separate distncU of 

 Calantan. The Calantanese offered to give up 

 the Patani Hajah. and pay forty thousand Spanish 

 dollars and a picul ot gold dust if they vvere 

 spared the horrors of a Siamese invasion. Alter 



