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'chiefs of the kingdom chose to accept Ms Soo

their King he would leave him.
" The Syyed accordingly repaired to Aeheen,
about the middle of the year ISIS, whew the
assembled chiefs of the kingdom solemnly invested
Syf.ul Alum Shah, the Syyed's second son, with
the sovereignty, and swore allegiance to hint ;
Tuankoo l'ackee, the powerful Chief of Pedir,
attending in person, and bringing a powerful aid In
support and establish the new King.
" The deposed King sought a refuge in a remote
corner of the kingdom, where be continued its in-
digence and obscurity until the disaffection of
Ttiattkoo Packee, the Pedir Chieftain, and Isis
abandonment of the new King, on account of some
pecuniary claim, restored him to some degree of
consequence by serving as a tool to further Tomato*

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Packer's personal views of ambition.
" The new King, Syf.til Alum, quitted the
capital arid retired to Tulluswamoy ou the eastern
coast, where he has since remained, but the Go•
moment st Acheen (such as it is) has been earrird

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au is hi• mune, and the duties at the capital and at

the other port*, excepting these dependant on
Pocket', levied wider litoeuthority.
"It throughout been the uniform and cautious
policy of the Government to avoid any porticipto-

tiun in fire ibsternol dispoites of the country, or to

give soy counteusure to one party in preference to
the other; but it has Away, beets an object of juts(

and anxious desire ti gee some settles! Gsivernmesst

sod fated authority established, with which we
might form arrangements uf:a permanent nature
for the security of ear commerce, and for the
natural advantage of the subjects of both Stater.
" To effect this very ilc%irable purpose, Captain
Coombs was disperrkeri by the Government of

Prince of Wale%'s in January lest, on r

missions to Acker's, instructed in the first instance
to ascertain whose authority was recugnist•d by the

chief% and people, in what kinds the sovereign
power was Itnlged. and h,wi.io ascertained this
point, empowered to treg.,clate a treaty with the

tctuill i►utl►uri7.

'lptain Cooml7s repaired to Adore!), where he
was met by the great Ciiefs of the kingdom. and
the purposes of his uii,sion being explained to them
in a full assembly of what may be termed the
National Council. the Chiefs distinctly and unani-
mously gave him the most formal and solemn de-
clination or their unchanged adherence and allegi-
ance to their new hovereign. Syr-id Alum Shall,
declaring that they had ►enounced for ever the au-
thority of Jowhor Allum, and would never more
admit hint to ►eign.
•• A few days only previous to Captain Coombs'
arrival, a brig under British colours, belonging to
the port of Nagore. had been captured and plun-
dered off the Pedir coast by Tuankno Packer, and
the crew made prisoners. This outrage, on being
made known to Captain Coombs, was represented
by him to the assembled Chiefs, who expressed
their deep sense of the disgrace such acts brought
on their country, and their resolution to call the
Pedir Chief to account. It must be understood
that the Sagis or great Chiefs of the three princi-i
pal divissims of the kingdom of Acheen Props:
form the Council of the State, and of late years
have, in fact, more than participated in the son..

reign power.
" After a star of a fortnight at Acheen, having
been referred by the Chiefs to Syf-ul Alum as the
acknowledged King, who alone had the power of
making any treaty with foreign States, Captain
Coombs had intercourse with Svf-ul Alum. and
then repaired to Calcutta to submit his report and
the result of his inquiries to the Governor General.
" It is quite an error to suppose that a counter-
revolution had again been brought about. and that
the Es-King had been successful in any attempt
to recover his throne, or overthrow what he and his
friends designate as the Usurper. Such an impres-
sion had been industriously disseminated in Bengal
and Prince of Wales's Island. and has found par-
tisans of sin inconsiderably weight to support it ;
but it has been grounded on a misconception of the
transaction that took place at Pedir, which has
been also greatly misreprosetited.
was asserted on the authority of awe pro.,
sots who had touched at Pedir, that sk.,oltitistat
hdd siren received from Acheen. "Pt red.
Chiefs of the kingdom, to leader their suhruinien to
Imitate, Allum, to solicit pardon, mid to invite !bins:
to return to the capital and resume his authority, and
at the head of that minion was the Shabuittlar
of Acheen, the principal executite officer of the

State.
" The main rims were true; such a deputation
was 14•111, uud *a.a confided to the Shabunclar, who
was sent to accou►pli.h by stratagem a purpose the
Chiefs feared they could not otherwise rtfirct.--.
tinder pretext of a respectful embassy to entreat
forgiveness and invite the Ex-King to return to hi►
• throne, the Sholicittlar was employed to get pos..
session of Ins person as a prisoner to the Sagi..
Finding-himself un•rl►le to effect his object, the
Shabundsr drtern•itted on getting rid of the new
King's must powerful adversary, Tuankao Packet.,
and accordingly seizing his opportunity he stabbed
the Pedir Chieftain to the heart. lie soon after•
wards fell himself by the hands of Tuattkoo's ad-
herents. Thus terminated the fictitious embassy,
said to have been sent to invite the deposed King
bask to his throne. So thoroughly the MIMIC of
say such &sip existing, or of the Itading Chiefs

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