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Peninsula. It was stipulated, under the same treaty,
that thereafter no British settlement should be formed
in the island of Sumatra—no treaty be concluded with
any of the native chiefs by British authority—no
establishment be made on the Caremons, on the
islands of Bantam, Bintang, Lingan (by name), "or
any other islands south of the straits of Singapore A
—no treaty be concluded, by British authority, with
any of their chiefs respectively. Again—his Bri-
tannic Majesty, on the one hand, withdrawing the
objections which had been taken on our part to the
occupation of Billiton and its dependencies by the
agE-nts of the Netherlands' Government, the King of
Holland on the other, withdrew the objections which
li id been taken to the occupation of 'Singapore by
British subjects, and engaged for himself and subjects,
" never to form any establishment on any part of the
peni lonia of Malacca, or to conclude any treaty with
any native prince, chief, or State therein."
(This stipulation is the more notable, inasmuch as it

is that the spirit and terms of which have seen most
directly violated by the Dutch authorities, to accom-
plish indirectly the object which is thus stated and
disavowed.)
The first article provided that the subjects of the
two nations should be admitted to trade with their
respective possessions in the Eastern Archipelago, on
the continent of India, and in Ceylon, on the footing
of the most favoured nations. And by the second,
that the subjects and vessels of one nation shall not
pay on importation or exportation, at the ports of the
other on the eastern seas, any duty at a rate beyond
double that at which the subjects and vessels of the
action to which the port belongs are charged. That,
as to any article on which no duty is imposed when
imported or exported by subjects or in vessels of the
nation to which the port belongs, the duty charged
on subjects or vessels of the other shall, in no case,
exceed six per cent. Other articles provided that no-
thing should be clone to impede a free communication
of natives of the Eastern Archipelago with the ports
of the two Governments respectively.
Second—Let us now see how these conditions have

been fulfilled on the part of the Dutch. It is needless
to inquire in what way they have been discharged by
ourselves, for no pretence of complaint has been ever
set up by the Dutch ; and, in these cases, they are
never the last to discover themselves aggrieved.
They retained possession of Rhio, in Bintang, al-
though affecting to consider it, under their own Go-
vernment, a dependency of Dutch Malacca, and
therefore covenanted to be given up to us. They
have—in disregard of previously existing relations of
amity which the British Government had established
with all the States on both sides of the Peninsula,
and of treaties of commerce which they had concluded
with all the chiefs of the western coast—forced some
of these native Powers to renew obsolete treaties which
had been entered into with the Dutch thirty years
back, and therefore have set up heavy claims under their
provisions. They have thus, too, strengthened the
machinery they have set in motion for subjugating
all Sumatra. They have annihilated the independence
of Acheen, which, in 1824, they thus pledged them-
selves, by treaty, to maintain. They have established
settlements both in Acheen and Siack, in contraven-
tion of modern existing treaties of those States with
the British Government, in which the former volun-
tarily undertook that no other nation but the latter
should be permitted to do so. They have totally
contravened the provisions of Articles 1,2, and 4
of the treaty, in many ways. By a proclamation of
the Government of the. Netherlands India (dated
Feb. 14, 1824), it had been among other things de-
creed that all cotton and woollen goods manufactured
in foreign countries to the west of the Cape of Good
Hope, whether imported in foreign or Netherlands'
bottoms, should, thereafter, pay a duty of 35 per cent.
when imported from any of the foreign settlements
to the eastward of the ,Cape. Such duty was, ac-

cordingly (though clearly illegal after the treaty of
March, 1824) levied on all cottons and woollens.

British manufactured, imported from Singapore into
any of the Netherlands' possessions, till the beginning
of 1834, when it was increased to a duty of 70 per
cent. ! The same Government passed a resolution,
dated November 14, 1834, effectually prohi-

biting the importation of British cottons and
woollens from Singapore into any of the
Netherlands' dependencies in the Archipelago, saving
only the ports of Batavia, Samarang, or Sourabaya,

in the island of Java, inasmuch as it declared that
they should not be allowed to be imported at all, unless
accompanied with a certificate from the Comptroller
of Customs at one of those ports, that such goods
had been imported there and re-exported thence.
By this proceeding British cotton and woollen
manufactures have been totally excluded from

ALL ports in the islands of Sumatra, Banea,

Bornec., and Celebes. Again, the treaty of March,
1824, expressly prohibiting interference with inde-

pendent native States by either party : the Dutch have
notoriously and unblushingly employed the influence
acquired by their possession of Macassar in Celebes,
" to extend their influence by force and intrigue, to
prevent the Bugis from carrying on their trade with

Singapore, to the great injury of our commerce."
This is a brief recapitulation of some particulars in
which the Dutch authorities have not merely in-
fringed upon, but outraged the treaty of 1824 between
the two Governments. These facts, which are not
open to controversy, are extracted from' the Asiatic
Journal, from the Pulo-Penang papers, Lieutenant

NEWBOLD'S "Account of the British Settlements in

the Straits of Malacca," private letters from Penang

and Singapore, " the Petition of Merchants and In-
habitants of Singapore to the King in Council"
(1837), and very many other documents and parties.,
of equal authority and standing. Tempted as we are
to pursue this subject much further, and to illustrate

(as we can easily do) still more forcibly the rapacity
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and bad faith of the Netherlands' Government

throughout the whole of these transactions, we are
willing, on this brief " outline," to appeal to the

public for a confrmatio►► of our own strong impres-

I,Mn—" that that remedy- which • our Governments,
and even our Legislature, has so long withheld from
these grievous dishonours to the British name and

injuries to British Commerce—notwithstanding all

the remonstrances, warnings, and memorials addressed
to them, year after year, and session after session,

by those, whose adoption of the facts must have suf-
ficiently guaranteed the perfect accuracy of the case
thus stated—ought not to be postponed one day after
the re-assembling of Parliament in February nest,
beyond that at which the forms of the two Houses
will permit it to be organised and promulgated.

COURT CIRCULAR. •
WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert received the Sacrament early
yesterday morning.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert, attentiecl,
by part of the Royal suite, went to the Riding-house'ie
see the poor receive her ajesty's bounty.
In the afternoon the Royal party left the Castle for an
airing, her Majesty and Prince Albert in a pony phae-
ton; his Royal Highness driving ; the Marchioness of
Douro and the Hon. Miss Hamilton following in another
phaeton, with the Shetland ponies ; and Colonel Ar-
buthnot, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback, in attend-
ance on her Majesty.
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater has succeeded
Colonel Bouverie as Equerry in Waiting on his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. Colonel Arbuthnot remains
at the Castle as Equerry in Waiting on the Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his
Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, will
join the royal circle at dinner.
. Lady Montagu and the Hon. Miss Montagu, Viscount
Anson, the lion. Mrs. Arbuthnot, Mr. George and the
Hon. Mrs. Hope, and Sir Henry Wheatley, will also
have the honour of joining the royal dinner party at
the Castle this evening.

Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, left town at half-past ten o'clock
yesterday morning, to honour the Earl of Cardigan
with a visit at his seat, Dean Park, Northamptonshire.
Previous to leaving town the Royal Duke visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester
House.

The Prussian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Co-
lonial•oHice for the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Jamaica,
and for the Governors of the other West India Colonies.
The Earl of Haddington has returned to his residence
in the Admiralty, from the seat of Sir George Warren-
der, Cliefden House, Berkshire.

Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial_
office, from the Governor of Sierra Leone.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—WOOLWICII, JAN. I.
The Gladiator, a fine first class steam-vessel, is ordered
to be commenced to-day, and the shipw rights will be
employed by task and job work ; and as the greater part
of her timbers have already been converted, it is expected
she will be ready for launching in about three months
from this period. Two new steam-vessels are to be built'
at Deptford, one to be named the Spitfire and the other
the Porcupine.