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The people of Acheen being now accuftomed and reconciled to fe- 
male rule, which they found more lenient than that of their kings, ac- 
quiefced 
out iDterferiitg, as they faid, in any other character than that of mediators, or afFording military 
afliftance to either party \ and which their extreme weatcQefs, rather than their aflettions, render* 
probable. On the t\ycnty-eighth of Maixh j6Si, the Dutch landeJ a confiderablc force from 
Batavia, and foon terminated the war. They placed the young fulian on the th-folie, deUvcring 
the father into his cuftody, and obtained from bim in return for theft favor*, an exctuiive privi- 
lege of trade in hi* territories; which was evidently the folt object ihey had in view. On the firft 
day of April, pofTeinon wai taken wf t^e Englllh fatlorj, by a pany of Dutdi and cotintry ft»U 
dicrs, and on the twelfth, the Agent and Council were obliged to embark, with their property, 
on vcffcis provided for the purpofe, wbidi carried them to Eatavia* From thence they proceeded 
to Surat, on the twenty fecond of Auguft in the following year. 
, In order to retain a fhare in the Pepper tmcJc, the En gliili turned their thoughts toxvatds Acheen, 
and a deputation, confining of two genUcmen, of the names of Oid and Cawley, was ft-ns tJii^ 
thcr In 1684 ; the fuccefs of which is above related. It happened that at this time, certain Rajct^ or 
chiefs of the country of Pr toman ^ and other places on the Weft coail- of Sumatra were at Acheen 
alfi>, 10 folicit aid of that court againii the Dutch, who had made war upon, andothcrwife motcfled 
them. Thefe immediately applied to Mr. Ord, cxpreffing a ftrong defire tiiatthe Englifh fliould fettle 
in iheir refpeftive dlftrifb, offering ground for a fort^ and the exclufive purchafe of their Pepper, 
They confcntcd to embark for Madras, where an agreemetit was formed witfi ihem by tbc governor, 
in the beginning of tlie year 1685, on the terms they had propofed* In conrcquence of this, an 
expedition was fitted out, with the defi^n of eftahlittiine a fcttlcment at Pnamav i but a day or 
two bcfnre ihe (liips {iiiled, an invitation, to the like purport, wa« leteivtd from rhe chiefs of 
Bina&kloo (lince corruptly called Bencoolen) i and as it was known that a confidcrabic proportion 
of the Pepper that 11 fed to he exported from Bantam, had been CDlleftcd from the neighbourhood 
of Bcncooieo, (at a place called SiUbai% it was judged adviicabJe that Mr. Ord, who was the 
perfon entrufted with the management of this bufincis, Ihoufd firft proceed thither; partictikrly 
as at tjiat feafon of die year it was ihe vvindcrmoft port. Ha arrived there on the twenty-fiftli 
day of June 1685, and after taking poflefllon of the country affigncd to tlie Englilb Company, 
and leaving Mr. Bloome in charge of the place, he failed for the purpofe of cftabliJhing 
the other fcttlcment s. He ftopt firft at Itidrapeur, whetie he found three EngUikmen who 
were left of a fmall faftory, that bad been fome time before fettled there, by a man of the 
name of Du Jardin. Here he learned that the Dutch, having obtained a knowledge of the 
original intention of our fixing at Priaman, had anticipated us therein, and fent a party to oc* 
cupy the fit nation. In the mean time it was unflejflood in Europe that this pbce was 
ihe chief of our eftabliftments on the coaft, and ihips were accordmgly configned thitlicr. 
The fame was fuppofed at Madras, and troops and ftores were fent to t^inforce it, ivhich were 
afterwards landed at Indrapour. A fettlemeiit was then formed at Mandutat and anotlwr at* 
tempted at Bn>tta»g Caf>aSf in i6Sfi } but here the Dutch, afiined by a party amongft the natives, 
aHaukcd and drove out our people. Every pofiibJe oppofuion, as it was natural to cxpea, was 
given by thefc our rivals, to the fuccefs of our fafloHcs. They fixed themfelves in the neigh- 
bo ttrhood 
