86 
180?.Si. _ The poaperity of the Colony dnoe then, and the inoreftBed importRnce of 
its fldmiDietrntjon, comprimne: as it bow does the three JTatires States taken 
under our protection in 1.87-1^ can be gathered from a eoniparison of the 
jievenueB aflministercd in tl;e firs^t year nftoi' the transfer ( ISO'S ^s, the firet 
year after the system of Protection (I87^j}, and these now estimated for neit 
year (18B5) 
180,8. 1885, 
SingRpore, SSGi,918 m7,2m §2,075,383 
Pcnang, 32-1,196 453,029 l,2ai,4-70 
Malacca, ... ... 112,725 118,307 308,215 
Protected Kative States — 
P^rak 270,(-)00 1,050334 
Seiriiigor, ... 115,051 572,157 
Sungei TJjong 66,474 132,7l>0 
Total,... SLSOLSSiii) ?l,9nO,00a >0,a03,259 
The CensHB returns shew an increase in the population of the Colonj' alone, 
durin*? about the aame period, from 273,000 (in 1S6G) to 123,8^1 (in 18S1). 
Un the haaibs of the increment during the last decennial period, the popub- 
tion increases about 10,500 annually, and must iiow wlaod at the lowest at 
473,1100 for the Colony ; to which mtist he added about H;5,000 for the three 
Protected States, making a tetiil. of 0-iS,{KJO now unrler Britisli admiuititration, 
MALACCA. 
Slalacca u one of tlie oldeRt Eiiropean poss^eflsiuns in tho East, having; 
been taken from its Malay Sultan, Maumud Sk.vit, by the Portuguese imder 
Ai;BrQiTEm»<irK in 1511. to ptmii^li an attiu-lc upon hi^ Licutenftut, SEQURiitJv, in 
i5njt. It wiiH held by them till Hill, when the Dutch, after seyerd fruitleisti 
attempts, BUceeedcd. wttb llic liclp of the Achinciie, in driviuij them out. 
The place remamed umJer Dutth government till 25th August. 1795, when 
it wap taken military pogt^etisiun of by the Engli»*h. The Duttdi Govern- 
ment wa? dissolved on Decemlier 4th of that year; iiiul the Engliph ad- 
min iwtration which tnok it:* place under Admiral M.^iswarfno aboliahed 
the Dutch Mstcm of iiioiii>[icly in the, Stritlt!', as Kaffles afterwards 
did on a wider scale in iHl.'J. ' Malacca wn« held by the Kriirlinh till 
lHl?5;at whieli date it vva« ret^tored to the Dutch, in arfordance with tho 
Treat}- of Vienna. It came linally into our handti under the Treaty wirh 
Llolhmd, of 3Iareli» 1B24, in cxchajige fur our Company^ Settlement at Ben- 
cool en, and other places on the AVest coast of Sumatra. By that Treaty it was 
also arranged that the Butch should not again meddle with iiffairs, or have 
any settlement <m the Malay Peninwula, tlio British Government a?;reeing, at 
the ttame time, to leave i^nunitra to the Dutch, Having only Achin in I he North, 
of which tlie independence wae prutectcd until tin' recent Treaty of 1872. 
A f(?w years after rc-occupying Mitlacca, a sn»:dl forre (d' ^^epoys had to 
idary 
been no distnrbani'e in any part of Malacca tsiuce the " Nan tug War,*' 
When Malacca was taken poa.'^ession of by the Porfetiguese in 1511, it waj 
one of the grand entrepots for the commerce of the East, and it ao eontinued 
