SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES. 
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ing the 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 he reposed in him 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 throtving off the European 
yoke, and who were by no means disposed to sub- 
mit quietly to the rule of their new governors.” 
Lord Minto remained in the island for six weeks 
superintending the new arrangements, after whicn 
the whole charges were resigned to the cm'e of Mi- 
Raffles, who now removed to Buitenzorg, the seat 
of government, distant from Batavia about forty 
miles. For some time his cares and duties were so 
heavy, that evei-y moment was required for their 
fulfilment, but ere long the pursuits of natural history 
and antiquities began to fill his momenta of leisure. 
In a letter to his first and old friend Mr Ramsay, 
vnitten 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 foi-warding to 
the authorities in England, several reports from Dr 
Horsfield, and other scientific gentlemen, on the 
natural history of the island ; and as the Batavian 
