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DR, EPF’s ACCOUNT OF BANKA* 
entirely succeed in the beginning, yet on a second expedition Piem-r 
bang was taken by the Colonel Gillespie, who put the younger brother 
of the Sultan upon the throne, and obtained from him a cession of the is¬ 
land of Banka to the English, (20th. May, 1812). They gave it the 
name of Duke of York’s island. The dethroned Sultan fled with his trea¬ 
sures out of the country. 
In 1817, after the congress ofVienna, which restored to the Dutch their 
possessions in the Eastern Archipelago (1816), they took possession of 
Banka. 
The fugitive Sultan applied to the Government of Batavia, defended 
himself against the accusations of being an accomplice in the murder of the 
Dutch in 1812, claimed back his throne, and was nominated again Sultan 
ofPlembang in the year 1818 by the Dutch, who seemed to have been sa¬ 
tisfied of his innocence. The younger Sultan was dethroned, but permit¬ 
ted to live at Plembang. He complained to the British, who at the time 
were still in possession of the south west coast of Sumatra (Benkulen) 
and solicited their assistance in maintaining his right. The English, 
whose protigS the Sultan was, ordered a corps of Bengalee troops to his 
assistance, who marched overland to Tibit-tingih, and were about to 
descend to Maras, when a Dutch squadron appeared in this stream and 
captured the British troops. 
Soon after this the old Sultan began to show inimical dispositions to¬ 
wards the Dutch. In 1819 he suddenly one morning opened a fire against 
the Dutch factory from his fort which lay opposite to the latter. The Dutch 
got into a great dilemma. Their first expedition against Plemb&ng failed 
entirely, and the troops were forced to retreat to Muntok, on the N. W. coast 
of Banka. At the same time disturbances on the east coast of Banka broke 
out. The Depatti Barin, a chief whose family possessed the greatest in¬ 
fluence in Banka under the Sultan ofPlembang, was retained by the Dutch 
Government as Dipatti of the district of Marawang. He had engaged him¬ 
self for the transport of the tin from the mines with his praus and soon con¬ 
siderable quantities ofthat metal were missed, upon which he was ac¬ 
cused of fraudulently smuggling the tin out of the country in order with the 
profit to indulge bis excessive passion for gaming. Summoned by the offi¬ 
cer of the district to make his defence, he failed to appear and made an of¬ 
fer to the Sultan of Plembang to expel the Europeans from Banka, if proper 
assistance were rendered to him, and to subject the island again to the 
Sultan. The latter issued a manifesto by which Barin was nominated Di¬ 
patti of Banka and tbs murder of all civil and military officers was ordered. 
