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cessity of withdrawing for a while, and promising 

 faithfully that, as i^oon as he could arrange the 

 affair ainicably, he would resign temporary 

 authority in his favor Hi? grand lather became 

 a dupe to his artifices, followed his advice, and 

 Rajah Alii firmly established himself as lang de 

 Pertuan Mood ah, or Knjab of liumbow. 



Rajah Hadgi, meanwhile, came with his wife 

 to Malacca — shortly olterwarfU abandoned her— 

 returned to Humbovv, and became a wretched 

 and neglected outcast in ctmf equence of his dis- 

 reputable habits and vicsouis propensities. 



Rajah Assil, finding thai: Hajali Alii was 

 strenuously supported in bis usurpation by the 

 Panghooloo Belantye, and Soolcoos of Kumlx>w, 

 against whose uuited influence it wan hopeless 

 for bim to attempt to contend single handed, went 

 to Malacca, and applied to Captain furqnhar^ 

 the then British Resident, for a'^Ki.'.tance. wl\-eh 

 he, conceiving himself bound by the fxi sting Trea- 

 ties of the Government to do, was ready loaf* 

 ford. On appJication to Pinang, however, hft 

 found that the principle of non-interference, even 

 in the face of a treaty, wa?*one which had gather- 

 ed strength with its years ; and be was forbidden 

 to mingle with the poliiics of the interior: Rajah 

 Alii consequently reraamed undisturbed in his 

 authority, which subsequently became more firm- 

 ly established by the death of Rajali Assil at Ma- 

 lacca. 



Rajah Alii, or the lang de Pertuan Moodah, 

 could not view the appoiu\ment of Itajah Laboo 

 to the office of the lang de Pertuan Btmr, with, 

 any other feelings than those of great distrust, 

 jealousy, and inquietude. Aware of the imp! a- 



