time tlic pniicipali seat of tbe Uulayaii 

 Guverridieiit. Fomided in Uic begin- 

 iiig uf Iht thii teenth cerilurj-, by a 

 Mulay prince^ whu wan expeHed from 

 Singapore by a tww itnniigratlon of 

 Malays, proceetliBg fruin Meiian^kabou* 

 It takes Us name of Malacca, actiurdiiif; 

 to t^eitain histurlans, fioui a kind of 

 tree tailed Malaka uudcr the fitiade of 

 whieli its first founder sat on reacbing 

 tbe place- The Portuguese, !ed by 

 A 1 phot) so Atbuqutrque, look UislmYa 

 definitively iii 1511^ vrliieli they lost in 

 164U, when I he Dutch occupied! it. 

 In 1/95 Mftkcca changed its inaater 

 and pasi^ed under the do tn in ion of the 

 Engflisli, till the year when, by 



virtue of the treaty of Vienna, tlie 

 Dutcb took it agato : a few years after- 

 wards^ the Dutch^ til con^equenee of 

 certain nrrangenveuts> ceded il to ihc 

 EnglUlK who possess it de&nuively 

 iiiuce the year Tlie English 



territory ol Malacca was considerably 

 increased in coiisej|uence of tlie war 

 with Nanning; ils limits were extend- 

 ed as far as the niountalns of Tamping, 

 Johoie and Gunoni^ Ledang or Mount 

 Ophir. The rivers of Linggy on the 

 North coast and of Cassang on the 

 Soutliern coast separate the English 

 from the Malay territory. 



Of ancient Malacca all that now re- 

 mains is ruin, mortiL and intellectual aii 

 well as material. The life of Mai sicca 

 consists only in its past dory and re- 



