Map to illustrate the Siamese question.

-19 -" for assistance; the former joined, but the latter declined, excusing
" himself on account of a war in Petani. This will account for the
" King of Tringganu's reception of your letter, and for the King of
" Kdah's anxious desire to have the Honourable Company for his
" protector. In July last, the King of Silangor, having collected
" about two thousand Pahangs, crossed over to Selangor, and in
" the night sent a few desperadoes to massacre the Dutch. They
"got into the fort, and wounded one of the sentinels and the chief,
" but the garrison taking alarm, killed eight of the Bugis, dis" persed the rest, and in the morning, the Dutch, being afraid of
"another attack, embarked in their vessels, and fled to Malacca,
" leaving all their stores, provisions, and ammunition undestroyed;
' the King took possession, and still keeps it. The King of Sln" gor cannot remain long in his present situation, his people are
" kept together by hopes of assistance from the English, which he
" expects from the indulgence and preference our merchants always
" received from him and his father, above any other nation." " I
"had scarcely arrived when I received intelligence that the Dutch
" fleet consisting of three large ships and fourteen sail of praus
" and sloops, were before Selangor. The King, unable to procure
"provisions, or to support himself longer without assistance, entered
"into a treaty with the Dutch, the particulars of which I have not
"learned. It is said, they obliged him to swear on the Koran he
" would send all the tin to Malacca, and be a friend to the Dutch.
" They took away the guns which they had lost there, and have
"now sent for him to Malacca." In the early part of the year
1786, the Raja of Slhngor, Sultan IBItAIIIM, who is still alive,
sent a letter to the Governor-General of India saying, that the
Dutch Company's people had gone (having been expelled by
force) and requested the British Government to form a Settlement.
It does not appear, that this State has ever had any intercourse,
direct or indirect, with the Siamese, either commercially or politically.
KLANG.
This was formerly a dependency of Malacca, and afterwards
fell under Silangor. In the reign of Sultan MUDHAFER SHAH, the
third Mahomedan King of Malacca, Klang was one of the most
flourishing Settlements under Malacca, and formed originally by
emigrants from Singapore and that place. In the year 1340, the
chief of this place Tuan Perak, son of the deceased Bendahara,................Srieva Raja was principally instrumental in repulsing the Siamese in one of their attempts upon Malacca. The
circumstances are thus related in the annals: "About the year
" 1840, it is reported that the King of Siam, who in ancient timunes