Sill THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES. 
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ing tile expedition is attributed to Mr Raffles. The 
services which he had performed were so highly 
judged of by Lord Minto,— the performance of any 
trust to be reposed in lnm was so confidently anti- 
cipated — that he at once appointed Mr Raffles 
Lieutenant-Governor of Java and its dependencies. 
“ The charge was of the most extensive, arduous, 
and responsible nature, comprising on the island of 
Java alone, a population of six millions divided in- 
to thirty-six residencies, under powerful chiefs, who 
had long been desirous of throwing off the European 
yoke, and who were by no means disposed to sub- 
mit quietly to the rule of their new governors.” 
Lord Minlo remained in the island for six weeks 
superintending the new arrangements, after which 
the whole charges were resigned to the care of Mr 
Raffles, who now removed to Ruitenzorg, the seat 
of government, distant from Batavia about forty 
miles. For some time his cares and duties were so 
heavy, that every moment was required for their 
fulfilment, but ere long the pursuits of natural history 
and antiquities hegnn to fill his moments of leisure. 
In a letter to his first and old friend Mr Ramsay, 
written in the same year' with his establishment in 
the government, after mentioning the surmounting of 
several difficulties, he says, “ By the next oppor- 
tunity I shall have the satisfaction of forwarding to 
the authorities in England, several reports from Dr 
Horsfield, ami other scientific gentlemen, on the 
natural history of the island ; and as the Batavian 
