Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China; being the journal of a naturalist in those countries, during 1832, 1833, and 1834

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19906535
AutoresGeorge Bennett (autor correspondente)
Ano1834
Data de publicação1834-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
EditoraR. Bentley (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5962/bhl.title.39887
OpenAlexW2167997906
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10

A, at the end of the volume.ACHEENESE TREATY.d tage of equipping his vessels from Peiiang, to command the trade of the Acheenese ports, and to invest one of his sons with the title of sultan.The Penang government, taking part with this side of the question, strongly recommended the support of it by the supreme government, and a force of a thousand men was actually applied for, with proper equipments, in order to establish the newly-created king thoroughly on his throne.Captain Coombs, a protege of Mr. Petrie's, and who had been employed as the agent of the Penang government, was in Bengal at the time of my arrival, and Lord Hastings asked my opinion.I had no hesitation in giving it, as far as it was then formed ; and the supreme govern- ment was induced to pause.I was subsequently joined in a commission with Captain Coombs, for the purpose of finally adjusting the ques- tion." After my arrival at Penang, I

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