Map to illustrate the Siamese question.

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"making his stay longer than was-necessary, being evidently
"more anxious to enjoy the amusements of the place than to
" carry on his duties, and I caused him tobe told that he had better
"return to Trengghnu. However, before he could do this, he was
" arrested for a debt-some money he had borrowed for his own
" personal use of a native countryman-and I was obliged to
" repay it to obtain his liberation.
" 8. In the course of a few months, he came back again on
" some pretext or other, and feeling satisfied that he was making
" a tool of the Sultan and using his name for his own purpose,
" I refused to see him or hold any communication with him
" and told him he must return to his country at once. He, how"ever, followed me up to Penang and was with difficulty got rid
" of.
"9. I am told that the Sultan of Trengganu has been very
"ill, it is said he is suffering from a paralytic stroke, and I think
"it highly improbable that, had he been in health and possession
"of his faculties, he would have sent an Envoy to England
" without my concurrence, still less that he would have chosen
" this person* for such a purpose.
" 10. The Sultan has never preferred any complaint to me of
" our Government, though he naturally feels aggrieved and, I
" think, not unjustly at the way he was treated in 1862. He
" has never, to my knowledge, made any claim to the Islands
" which have lately been apportioned between Johor and Pa" hang, nor do I believe he has any, and if he feels any annoy" ance about his salute, I am confident, from the friendly feelings
" he has always shewn to me, that he would have made his views
" known directly to me and not in the manner his Envoy has
" adopted.
" 11. Awaiting your Lordship's instructions.
" I have, &c.,
" H. ST. G. ORI)."
* It is said that owing to the non-success of his mission, or the
manner in which he discharged it, Tunku MAIIOMED AlrrIN has
never been able to return to Trengganu.
AmRIFFIN does not bear a good character; he has been employed
for some years by the Netherlands-Indian Consulate in Singapore
to collect information on native affairs.-F. A. S.