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Political and Statistical Account of our Settlements there, as will be 

 seen by an advertisement on the cover. The manuscript is already 

 sent to England, we believe, to be put into the publisher's hands j and 

 the following is a table of the contents of the work. 



Chap. I. — General view of the Brilish Settlements in ^Ae ■S'^raiifs.— Comprising their llela- 

 tive Geographical position— History — Government — Political and Commercial Relations — 

 Sketch of the Commerce— Currency— Weights and Measures— Administration of Justice— 

 Expences of the Queen's Court of Judicature — Population— Chinese Settlers — Suggestions 

 and Remarks on European and American Colonization— Price of labour — Seasons and 

 Winds — Military Establishment and its Expence to the State— Piracy ; its causes, hints on 

 suppression of— Noted piratical haunts— Revenue and Expenditure of the three Settlements 

 and total annual cost to Goveriimeut. 



Chap. IT. — />/«awg-. —Geographical position— Physical aspect— George -Town— Geology 

 — Government — Population — Revenue— Trade— Cultivation of Spices — Produce — Leases of 

 Land— Abstract of Exports a.sd Imports- Education among the Natives— Propaganda Mis-» 

 sion College— Miluary Strength. 



Chap. Ill,— Province Wellesley. — Area— Boundaries— Physical Aspect— Climate— Pre«- 

 duce — Coucludiag Remarks. 



Chap. IV.— Ma/acca.— Geographical position— Area— Town of Malacca— Boundaries- 

 Physical Aspect and Geology — Climate— Produce— History — Government — Population- 

 Slaves and Slave Debtors— Revenue — Tenth on Land-produce— Trade — Education among 

 the Natives — Anglo-Chinese College — Concluding Observations. 



Chap. Y .—Naning.—A.xe& and Boundaries— Physical Aspect— Streams— Roads— Thermal 

 Springs — Military character of Inhabitants — Unhealthy localities — Principal places — Reli- 

 gion—Priests—Mosques—Sacred Tombs— Ceremonies observed on the occasion of Births, 

 Marriages, and Deaths— Religious Fasts and Festivals— Native system of Government — 

 History— Population— Revenue— Mo<de of levying the Tenth— Trade— Gold and Tin Mines. 



Chap. \ I. —Singapore, — Geographical position— Physical Aspect and Geology — Produc» 

 tions— Town of Singapore— Education among the Natives— Climate— History— Population 

 —Military Strength— Revenue— Trade — Exchange — Tonnage— Outline of the Trade of Sin- 

 gapore with China, the Indian Presidencies, Great Britain, Java, the Malayan Peninsula, 

 Siam, Cochin China, Cambodia, Islands of the Archipelago, Continental Europe, Mauri- 

 tius, New South Wales, the Cape of Good Hope, America, Sumatra, Malacca, Pinang, and 

 the neighbouring Dutch Port of Ilhio, of which a brief notice is given— Concluding Re- 

 marks. 



Chap. General View of the Malayan jP/?wmst<?a.— Comprising Geographical posi- 



tion— Physical Aspect and Geology— Area— Population— Exports and Imports— Tin— Gold 

 —Iron— Zoology— Vegetable Kingdom. 



The remaining Chapters will be devoted to a detailed account of each Malayan State on 

 the Peninsula, describing their respective Boundanes, Products, History, Government, 

 estimated Population and Revenue, and Political relations with the British Government-^ 

 agreeably to the following order- 



