Map to illustrate the Siamese question.

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" To the same.-- "
" The contents of all these have been perused and understood.
" Regarding the affairs of Sultan MAHOMET, the ex-Sultan of
" Lingga, in connection with Tringgainu, you have several times
" written to H. E. Ciiow PHYA PRAKLANG, Minister for Foreign
" Affairs in Bangkok, and answers have been sent explaining
" matters on each occasion.
" The Siamese Government have not been negligent, but have
" each time sent instructions to the Rja of Tringganu, copies of
" which have always been handed you.
" On the 6th instant, you wrote stating that we must send a
" vessel to bring back Sultan MAIHOMET, and on the 8th instant an
" answer was sent stating that we would send the steamer Alliga" tor for Sultan MAHOMET, but that that steamer was not in readi"ness to start at once, and would require some days to put her in
" a state to proceed. All this was fully explained in that letter.
" The Alligator left Bangkok on the 17th instant, and now we
" are informed that his Honour the Governor of Singapore had
" sent vessels of war to Trengganu for the person of Sultan MAino" MET, and on not securing him, bombarded that place on the 11th
" instant before your letter with the reply of the Siamese Government had time to reach Singapore; such being the case is a mat" ter of grief to us, as the Siamese Government have been of
" opinion that Her Britannic Majesty was pleased to'appoint you
"as Consul in Siam, so that in the event of any matters arising,
" we would be enabled to consult with you, and so arrange such
" matters throughout the Siamese territories with justice.
" The fact that Trenggiinu has been bombarded by the authority
" of His Honour the Governor of Singapore, and the hasty man"ner in which it has been done, we consider as disregarding and
" setting aside the authority and position of Her Britannic Majesty's
" Consul in Siam, also a violation of the 12th Article of Captain
" BURNEY's treaty, and thereby is a cause of alarm to a nation of
" little power that never thought of offering resistance.
" I am now, therefore, at a loss what to say further on the sub"ject until the return of the steamer Alligator with Sultan MAnHO" MET, and I shall have enquired into the matter, and [?been] made
" aquainted with the nature of the Raja of Trenggnu's letters,
"when I shall be better enabled to communicate with you on the
" subject, and shall request you to kindly forward further parti" culars of these events to the Right Honourable the Earl RUSSELL,
" Her Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs in London.
"I have, &c.,
" C. PHYA SRI SURYWONGS."