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Dmun, and wfiuM consequently have required* 

 eve.i at this period, to have been backed by a 

 military force. 



in June 183 1 , the decision of the Court of Di- 

 rectors, in favor of the reduction of the revolted 

 dependency, was received, the strength of the 

 troupp atMalacca beings four Companies of the 29th 

 M. N. I , tolerably complete in numbers, except in 

 the point of Htiropean officers, and a small detail of 

 Golnndauze, or Native artillery. A proclamati* 

 on was issued by Government, dated the 15th 

 July* aj>d wliich will be found in the appendix 

 (D.), setting forth that troops were on the point 

 of proceeding into the interior, and exhorting the 

 people to remain quiet. 



Notwithstanding that Ma'acca is a field stati- 

 on, and that consequently her troops are suppoa" 

 ed to march in any direction at an hour's notice, 

 the sweeping reductions, which had lately been 

 made, had deprived both ihe Ordnance and Com- 

 missariat Depai injents oWhtmaterid requisite for 

 the field, and the expedition was unavoidably de- 

 layedj until the receipt of Stores from Pioang 

 and Singapore should afford it the means of 

 movijig. 



Meiinwhile, as every publicity had been given 

 to the fact that a Hcrtt expedition was on the 

 point of starting against Nanning, the intelli* 

 genee was rapid ty conveyed to Bool Syed. This 

 wily chief immediately despatched letters to Ra- 

 jah Alii ofRumbow, transmitiiug the forged in- 

 formation that the ulterior ol)ject of Government, 

 after the subjugation of Nanning, was the reduc- 

 tion of Rumbow to a British province, under the 



