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^Bt of hostilities. His bands were strength- 

 eiu»il tenfuld by the circumstance* and the badjoo 

 and Kword, to whose virtues he hesitated not to 

 ascribe the quailing of the British, rase into still 

 hi^lier veneration amongiit his fiJlowers. 



j\Ir, Fullerion's main reason for deferring the 

 expedition appears to have been founded in a de* 

 sire to obtain the sanction of the Supreme Go- 

 vernment prerinuB toen^aginj^ in hostilities. He 

 accordingly addTcssed it on the .snbjectj proba* 

 bly anticipaliog that, by taking ibi!;! step, a de- 

 lay of only a few weeks, at most, would be in- 

 curred, from which no material Injury would re- 

 sult. If such were his views, hcwaj? disappoint- 

 ed, as tlie Bengal Government referred the whole 

 affair to the Authorities at home ; in cousequeace 

 of which, an intert^al of nearly two years elapsed 

 between the first declaration of the intentions of 

 Government, and the receipt of the decision of 

 the Court of Directors. Mr, Fulierlon about 

 this period returned to Englaod, and \va^ -^nc- 

 ceeded as Governor by Mr. IbbetJ^on. 



Dool Syed was not slow in taking advantage 

 of the foregoing combination of events in his fa- 

 vor, ^hich he considered as peculiarly adapted 

 for prooiotitig his independence* It must here 

 be noticed that, strictly speaking, none of the 

 lands in the vicinity of JJalacca, are Government 

 properly, the different allotments belonging to 

 individua's, who have assigned them over to the 

 Company for a fixed annual rate> without the 

 power of resumption except at the pleasure of 

 fioveroment. 



Amongst the numyev of individuals, who Lave 



