Map to illustrate the Siamese question.

" villages, and Buddhist temples. The images which they found
" in these were chiefly made of tin, the priests having secured
" the more valuable ones before they fled. A party of the insur"gents then arrived at Kota Bharu, and finally at the embouchure
" of the Petani river, where they had hoped to procure boats to
" carry them to the assault of the town of SinggOra, the population of which consisted principally of Chinese. In this hope
" they were disappointed. The second Malayan column under
" MAHOMED TAIB reached the above town and invested it a good
" way off on the land side, but had not the means of doing so on
" the sea face. They had here passed nearly three months in a
" state of inaction, when the Senggoreans marched against them
" with a force of five hundred Chinese and two thousand Siamese
" and Malays. The invaders were worsted with considerable loss,
" and compelled, under Tunku MAHOMED SAAD, T. ABDULLAH, T.
" MAHOMED SUNNAWI and T. MAHOMED TAIB PUTIn, to retreat to
" Kedah."
The paper concludes with this note by Mr. J. R. LOGAN -
" To prevent distant readers being misled by Colonel Low's
" present strong opinions on the subject of the Siamese and Malay
Sclaims to Kedah, we beg to refer to our note at the bottom of
" p. 25, and to repeat that 'the opinion of the great majority of
" 'Europeans of Penang not connected with Government' has
" always been as strongly in favour of the Malays as that of
" Colonel Low has latterly been hostile to them and favourable to
"the Siamese. We may add, that we have taken some pains to
" make ourselves acquainted with -the facts, and that we regret
" our esteemed contributor should have abandoned the more
" unprejudiced views which he formerly entertained."
Briefly, we may gather from the foregoing, that the weight
of evidence shews that, a century ago, Kedah was independent of Siam (though Colonel Low denied the independence), and that, a century ago, the Indian Government
received the island of Penang and the territory of Province
Wellesley from the Sultan or Rija of Kedah. In 1821, Siam
attacked and conquered Kedah, and in 1826 contracted with
the British Government a treaty, known as the Treaty of
Bangkok, confirming to the British Government its rights over
Penang and Province Wellesley.