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judgement on this appeal set aside ; and the mat- 

 ter terminate by being laid before the lyang de 

 Perluan Besar, whilst both paities. by the impo- 

 Eition of fines, and practice of bribery, were re- 

 duced to beggary, and ultimately resorted to ne- 

 farious habits of life. No one will mamtam that 

 this state of things was desirable, nor deny that 

 its termination m-ouUI have been a real benefit to 

 the people ; but it appears to me that the man- 

 ner in which It was endeavoured to introduce 

 the alter^aion was iujudicious. In l«eu of 

 these privileges, and in order t»induce the Pan- 

 Khooloo and Sookoos to concur in levying the 

 tenth, pensions were offered to the whole. l>ool 

 Sved liad made no mean use of the sanctity which 

 was attributed to him in virtue of the Mjon and 

 Kword.and, at this period, had advanced so great- 

 Iv in reputation and political pov^er that Malays 

 of every rank, who were laboring under any bo- 

 dily infirmitv. flocked to his residence at Uboo. 

 in order to be cured of their diseases by drink- 

 inc. the water in which his foot had been dipped, 

 inny readers will reflect that, in the preceding 

 pa^cs, I have mentioned but one instance of a si- 

 ™i^r assumption of power, (and I have found 

 after diligent search, none other recorded)- f 

 thev will further remember that the individual, 

 of whom it is related, is no less a personage than 

 the celebrated Suhbaun Man.ur SIidJi. who go- 

 verned Malacca in the very zenith ot her prospe- 

 ritv - and then advert to the seal used by t.he 

 Pan-hooloo,' thev w'iU be able to form some idea 



