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Power resumed its former restrlctire regulations, 

 and used every exertion to crush the iofant Bri- 

 tish settlement of Singapore, by reviving obso* 

 lete and exclusive treaties with the principal 

 tin countries of the Peninsula, &c. Althongh 

 these efforts were in a great measure connteract- 

 ed by tlie firm and prompt measures of the Bri- 

 tish government^ it is nudeniable that a great 

 portion of the rapidly increasing pro^^perity of 

 Singapore, and simultaneous decline of Rhio, are 

 to be attributed to the circumstance of Malaccas 

 having changed hands again in 1825. 



The following statement of the import and 

 export duties of Rhio during her best days, viz. 

 from 1819 to the beginning of 1825, shews that 

 her trade was never so considerable as to hold 

 out any prospect of competing with that of her 

 rival of Singapore, 



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