Speech of the Right Honourable Lord Stanley of Alderley, on moving an address for further correspondence respecting the Malay peninsula: delivered in the House of Lords, Monday,February 28, 1876

Speech of the Right Honourable Lord Stanley of Alderley, on moving an address for further
correspondence respecting the Malay peninsula: delivered in the House of Lords, Monday,
February 28, 1876.
Author(s): Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley
Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, (1876)
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SPEECH
OF

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LOKD STANLEY OF ALDERLEY,

ON MOVINGAN ADDRESSTOE FURTHERCORRESPONDENCE
RESPECTINGTHE

MALAY PENINSULA.

DELIVEEED

IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS,

Monday, Febeuaey 28, 1876.

"HANSAED'S exteacted feosi DEBATES,"
PAELIAMENTAEY

Vol. ccxxvii.

LONDON:
COENELIUS BUCK, 23, PATEENOSTEE EOW, E.O.

1876.

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SPEECH.

HOUSE OP LOEDS, established the just authority of this
Monday,February28, 1876. country. I hope to show to your Lord¬
ships that some of those operationsand
losses of life have happened,in countries
where there is not even a semblanceof

BIALAYPENINSULA. just authority on the part of England.
Her Majesty's Government will per¬
OBSEEVATIONASD.DEESFSOEPAPEES.thhaepms iinliftoarrmyoypoeurratLioonrsdisnhPipesrwakhaetnhderalaslol
Loed STANLEY of ALDEELEY, in in Sunghi Ujong, which is more than
rising to call the attention of the House 100 miles away from Perak, and which
to the state of things in the Malay had nothing to do with Mr. Birch's
Peninsula and to move for Papers, said: death, were undertakenby their instruc¬

My Lords, I shall commenceby stating tions or at the discretionof the Colonial
that the Secretaryof State for the Colo¬ Governor The Correspondencerelating
nies has suggested to me to wait for a to the affairs of the Malay Peninsula
despatch which he expects from Sir shows that the Duke of Buckingham
William Jervois; but as that despatch on the 22nd of April, 1868, Earl Gran¬
can have little reference to the greater ville on the 10th of September, 1869,
part of what I desire to place before and the Earl of Kimberley on the 26th
your Lordships, or to the Questionsthat of August, 1871, all warned the Go¬
require an answer from Her Majesty's vernorsof Singaporethat they were not
Government, and as reports continue to enter into formal negotiations with
to arrive of the plunder and burning of Malay Princes,norto extend the respon¬
villages by the officials of the Straits sibilities of Her Majesty's Government
Settlements, it appears necessary to withoutspecificinstructions. It becomes,
call your Lordships' attention without therefore, equally unaccountable either
delay to the state of things in the Malay that Sir AndrewClarkeshould have ap¬
Peninsula. It might have been expected pointedEesidents, and that Sir "William
that the noble Earl the ColonialSecre¬ Jervoisshouldhave assumedthe Govern¬

tary wouldhave laid Papers onthe Table ment of Perak by officials of his own
at the commencementof the Session— without instructions, or, on the other
since these affairswere more important hand, that the noble Earl the Secretary
than those of the Gambia. A paragraph of State should have reversedthe policy
in the Speech from the Throne refers laid down by his Predecessors, and
to the military operations and loss of by the Indian Government, without
valuable lives in that country; and it is either informing Parliament of his in¬
a matterof satisfactionto findan expres¬ tentions, or taking properprecautionsto
sion of regret for the loss of those lives, carry out his measureswithout the loss
for which loss the Secretaryof State for of valuable lives. I must ask your
the Colonies is primarily responsible-—Lordships to go back a little to the
as also for the bloodshed,injustice, and causes of the recent events. The Secre¬
expenditure which have occurred, and tary of State on a formeroccasion(May
which may follow later. The same 19, 1874) informed your Lordshipsthat
paragraphof Her Majesty's Speech says the pirates in the tin mines of Larut
that the military operations have re¬ had renderedBritish interventionneces-

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sary—but a dispatchof Sir Henry Ord on the 6th of March, 1874, No. 43, and
of July 24, 1873 (No. 13 of the Blue the hesitating language of this despatch
Book), re-establishes the truth that the contrastedwith the decidedlanguage of
Chinese disturbers of the peace of the noble Earl's Predecessors. This de¬

Larut all proceededfrom Singaporeand spatchsaid—
lDPtibsisfBbttTtfraCKisbrnoSbweova(aocannrhnhoerphuteeraneefeeaiepnlfelhelonhino"iteruqe"cauitmielarcnetemmmPuceypprimnahuceaoahIantdunhneSnrserapenoAeecs.sginlmunaebekeemfmvudunoisnpdan,ithitPEtdesstBSShdtsnsrenuGeoehhcflsmggomaa,hee—etebIayar,tatendehtpSoesa,wsrhnrlrsonon"raolimbrtedmvtuetramoptttenatamseaafvgtprhaltariieaeawnehnifktyeotyln,sguiiteountrsotefuawitnhetdteea,dnstmaoeriysnetea:w2nsifagndstScxhosd—n,hoietdnnnd.otohSaf2tcpianbCideefeeaesBadntwCretoeuttfroonn,etmprtntohixishboJlntrearthfootnnaidocaSdonhthtwedfbmulEtteaawaittefniaifgrrwer1hthieefooeadesoeesntllninainootm,odksP8lpfisoecleoewtstsxnaiuIcducrrlrtomnras;fupe7dohettuplimeetteoalwifaefpeopr,elmmSp3nneahntidnewoftonyrmvxctwptor,iiretadetrpenvwthypheoptersoucbptohlfonlrnsesichhirbsedeha,ifftehbeirnAtvlgyee.evasteoet1giseomniti"iesreewcycfdti)oinetcasotysvcunoo8ursltaaarts,KteoSahasaedMnothtieiffa7sltduiNrdtcrtoohS2ndnincchntnnSeiei4oethrrpovthodtnm0otoaeidtdsinectnsi,fyPeohrijfiHoon.unrpu,nee.sloSeoGfsmeuweowbaeeHhnn,csooNnas.aattrrniue1cun1"nyioemitgoeCsAbrufihbktenrtcen4.caEh8rkgrcfauchveslPneaoninhlrantoulaw7eeihwnslaLAideroabsiaennyierioidbsd,re3TvhaLrsrtgfrtrEyiooonyvfthcaswri,eOeoyht,rnelonkasOrdhtoiutGuroihatiyaeaehnimvogandneioeitendoartornmlriwvrnuntiooIeo'emitlddn¬fd¬ftifts¬ls¬ds¬yeee¬n¬,gngjiptmithcffconmIbtpLcrdPaAdttwctGaHdc1tunfoohronhoieoeuproaoiinellu8reoodon"athirsaaHiaeolsmmeopmntbiwsende7veornatmaygnrdtAcohtsvmePrshraqld4eeewtpipeneveelhsyireesenatsnnHsrrddrieu,otsIMap,onihrercm,saiMbnhtoaetadhgwfanenadoawnttwteoeteaorvaMadtoyceliiihisraemrmsdiddsaimelonpeafcrittybenCfrnatdjeetfdtssetlhnttdMaejopSgshfceohaoaliahsniteoiyhheslre'aeslaniuesidaetetuensfaenipacssiarsoiseertahrsrirtaEsgHnnenRrrtgypetedyiyatshamsoPsjrkeyceagona.ktgtegsaoePHo'eoteeioefaesefeia'ersnfnptLtmcGePrustBrtasntrsfsefInfnfnsrropshhh(ath.GenelmMeoiiusrroeglaaatytgoeAtdcu(pcctdeteetureeanhorlIitwotloknnfi'eevhihttesosaxoxrasoshkdeoohgteiefarmvee,tgenieepsinnjpaihGarnffrhnSessosalbcnreeEBeoawtfdiotlslhewep,atptstoEtnrnsneeomlatcinouoamihaneoetiointalmnncsnemvnidhwnowapndtrllyro.ptmtaetenrt,oAamhaqoebuteuearhlssI'kbesGhhnettete?byr,swncsu,lttlseicsnaooahsryene£ioditenoho,iiiolhtoosntcehcaffnshtontnsaoe4wtfnifiTmaInefmovhasshn,oosnEdalKtugctE,tet.td.snueeqsCvi0thaud"nahcp,shwatertakna1haaraaiiioe0ptuhnheawllnasnesnsmedTr9nanenfdroldht0rtegoleoredtocnlldntaelblmhuPRtadhwaostae,birdnudehoreehsotvltneltatcedfSaidbudeeonmmeatartaexdosoeeanemnvyE-MbeisdtiesnyeenarcnotyafntiynevrpireepaatrcaesevrqoesdttdteoardhdtaeitmStdasrnnayrsertbsohonhuheunhouenattiiaoetooyiiosse)cgntooknydegneiioerf-rloerdd,ste¬¬¬s¬,¬¬¬ny)gte,s
Well, instead of reporting as he was in¬ sition of territory. The noble Earl (the
structed to do, Sir Andrew Clarke,mero Earl of Carnarvon)declinedto makeany
motu,makes an engagement with one of reply, such as might have discountenan¬
the claimants to the Throne of Perak, cedall desireforconquest,neitherdid he
and with certainChiefs,whichwas made allow yourLordshipsand the countryto
reluctantly,for the appointmentof Eesi- knowwhatwasbeingpreparedunderhand
dents in Perak and Larut, at a cost of andin secret. But he toldyourLordships
£2,000 each, to be a first charge on the thatthe MalayPeninsulawas'' the fairest
revenues of Perak, although in his de¬ portion of the earth." He again used
spatch of January 26, 1874, No. 39, he the same expression, and said the Piji
says—"This charge would be gladly Islands were the fairest portion of the
borne by the Straits' Government." In earth, when he invited your Lordships
this despatch,Paragraph 39, and in an¬ to considerthe acquisitionof those Is¬
other of the same date, No. 40, he lands. Doubtless in that midnight
admits that he has exceededhis instruc¬ complaintpouredinto the ears of Jeze¬
tions. These despatcheswere answered ybaerl,dAahsab"athlseo describedNaboth's vine¬
by the noble Earl (the Earl of Carnarvon) fairest portion of the

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earth;" and the tactics adopted in the hardly attempt to deny it, or else how
case of Naboth's vineyard have been couldhe accountfornothavingconfirmed
adoptedin the case of the Malay Penin¬ these appointmentsmade by the Straits
sula also ; for as men of Belial were set authorities When Sir AndrewClarke
up to bear false witness againstNaboth, proposedan arrangementto the Chiefs
so also men in Singapore and elsewhere of Perak in January, 1874, he estab¬
have set themselves-upto bear false wit¬ lished Eaja Abdullah as Sultan of
ness against the Malays, and to accuse Perak, instead of Eaja Ismail, who had
them of being pirates. I need nottrouble been elected Sultan three years before,
your Lordships with proof that the ac¬ and who had been recognizedas Sultan
cusation of piracy made against these by former authoritiesof the Straits, and
States of the Malay Peninsula is un¬ by the greater part of the country. He
founded; that matter has been amply did this, notwithstandingthat he knew
andsatisfactorilydisposedof by a letter that Eaja Abdullah was addicted to
from Sir Benson Maxwell, well known opium,andfrompassagesin Mr.Irving's
to be a person of weight and experience Eeport, it is pretty clear that he was
in those countries, published in T/ie selected because it was hoped that he
MorningPost of Tuesday, the 15th of would be a more pliable puppet in the
February. I have also here the letter hands of the Straits Government. It
of a Mr. Bain, who navigated in the was alleged laterby Sir William Jervois
Straits of Malaccafor 11 years, between that the Eesidents did not succeed in

the years 1847 and 1864, and he never the objects for which they were ap¬
heard of any piracy, nor saw there any pointed,though CaptainSpeedy appears
suspicious craft; and I have a letter to have done a great deal at Larut, at
from a lawyer in Penang showing that least by his own account. Now, I would
the so-called Chinese piracy of Larut ask the noble Earl whether he gave
originated in Penang. The noble Earl these Eesidents any instructions as to
will remember that I repeatedly, both the performance of their duties, or
in the House and out of it, pointed out whether he left them to find them out
to him the nature and characterof the by the light of nature? I have been
officialsproposedto be appointedas Ee- lately reminded that the noble Earl the
sidents, and that such appointments Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
must lead to a disaster. It has been when addressing some students at Ad-
out by others in the following discombebefore they proceededto India,
pointed in a letter to The Times,in the told them that they would each repre¬
passage
Blue Book (No. 44), which was sent to sent this countryin India—that no civil
the Colonial Officeby the Straits Asso¬ officerthere can have any private life.
ciation :— Did the noble Earl address any such
phirMrpsgtnrpeiaeuam"fuparevtalTsitclrueegeahotdeneheneynfsont,eduteshcah,hncc,,snlhoalcoBee,eeuitwnha.onwcrImrdalfcieB,iatiarevlunihlcoansseslcteshrcedortepwointau,ffrsreodieian,oSrlrlrwtoilnfudihmkd.redpeeBteerA,aahrmtdpuhnisneanbeettaddnatdaRnlbtoehdnsrdoeim.ibeetd"trlssehwyeeiam;xdC,seatlepmeeuishlkrtnaresehc,eicrtttwaiedbhtksmlehBeaeeelBdoyboiun'rsrensryiosdoxlsitottabtrphhbitkneeseoeee¬re¬h¬,sfcahttSniateehudesporwewmvme,hoiewaMansciadsntedoenayaesrtwdnuenwfdoecpohtsawherhfapossiebiotbotshhuohsfecaeanueEsaLddnidtmedStwaesheetarerierensdnurmastCetyteeieo.ntoErhtsotroeiesLGTfendi.snaehfiottdachrsIvehevueueseentwoeltrocutonosasnErtmeu.athoaereCdletebslvdemrinaildsscaesptasi,ee,sbnctoyfnaiouionrtsaiarftssn¬¬
It is easy to see that this portrait is of order and economy in finance, but
drawn from life of what a Eesident the Eesident in Larut at once erects a

should or should not be. If the noble rTehsiedPeenncaynwgoGrtahzyeottfesapceoalkosnoiaf litGso"vneronboler.
Earl the Secretaryof State should dis¬ proportions" and centre room 70 feet
sent from my assertion that unfit men in length. He then provides himself
were appointedas Eesidents, I shall be with a bodyguardof Chinese, dressedin
obliged to ask him to lay before your blue satin tunics and red circular hats,
Lordships the late Mr. Atchison's and he appears to have no fewer than
letter, and the correspondenceon the 17 elephants at his disposal for a picnic
subjectbetween the noble Earl and my¬ for his Penang friends. In his Eeport
self at the end of 1874 and beginning he invariablyspeaks as though he were
of 1875. The noble Earl will, however,

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the Euler of the country,instead of the the government of Perak in his own
adviser of the Euler. He mentions officers. He professedto do this on the
having circulatedthe coppercoin of the authorityof Sultan Abdullah, the man
Straits, and having forbidden the coin whom the Straits Governmenthad set
of the country to be received in the up instead of the Sultan who had been
Larut Treasury. As a natural conse¬ reigning for three years. A man whom
quencethe coin of the countryfell into Sir William Jervois knew to be incapa¬
disuse; and he says that, owing to the citatedby opium, and who, even had he
scarcityof coppercoin, only 97 cents in¬ been the lawful ruler of Perak could
stead of 100 can be obtained for the have no authorityor power to transfer
dollar in the Larut bazaars. He then the allegiance of his subjects to fo¬
reports that he established a Court in reigners. This usurpationby SirWilliam
which, as nearly as possible, he always Jervois, carried out so indiscreetly by
follows the Indian Penal Code. Now, Mr. Birch, would aptetrahckaposnbtehastuofffifcicieenrt.
the late Mr. Iltudus Pritchard,in com¬ to accountfor the

menting on that Code, says that its au¬ The speech of Her Majesty mentionsre¬
thors appear to have thought that he presentationsto theChineseGovernment,
who invented a new crime conferred and an inquiry into the lamentable out¬
a benefit on the human race. Mr. rage in Yunnan. Why was no similarin¬
Speedy did not, however, usually ad¬ quiry made into the circumstanceof Mr.
minister this complicated code himself; Birch's death Was it because China
it was administered by a late clerk in was stronger than this Malay State
some trading firmin the Straits. During Will the noble Earl the Secretary of
the year 1874, 770 persons were tried State say whether or not Mr. Birch had
by this Court. Now, though Larut has caused one or more Malay Chiefs to be
been represented as full of truculent flogged, whether he had or had not
pirates, there was only one trial for at¬ burneddownpeople'shouses,asreported
tempt to murder; 186 were tried for by a Timescorrespondent,and done acts
assaults, 97 for unlawful assembly, an which were tyrannical in one who was
offence more consistent with a depart¬ not a Euler, but only an adviser of the
ment in a state of siege under a French Euler If the consentof Eaja Abdullah
Prefect, than with a Malay State and a to Sir William Jervois's assumptionof
British Eesident; and 11 were tried for the Governmentof Perak gives a sem¬
breach of conservancy: I do not know blance of authority to the Straits Go¬
what offence that is, unless it be the vernment in Perak, that cannot be al¬
new crimeMr.Pritchardsaid the authors leged in another countrywhere no such
of the code wished to invent. Of the transfer of the ruling power took place.
administration of the Perak Eesidency Yet Sir William Jervois, when he had
I will say nothing on accountof its un¬ obtained troops,invaded Sunghi Ujong,
fortunatetermination; but as something a countryseparated from Perak by the
has been said of it in the newspapers,I State of Salangore. As Sunghi Ujong
shall be glad to hear any defence of it is not in all the maps, the case will be
from the noble Earl. Then a Mr. better understood by comparing the
Davidson was appointed Eesident in MalayPeninsula to Italy. Perak corre¬
Salangore; it was known that he had sponds to Tuscany, Salangore to the
advanced large sums to Tunku Dhya States of the Church, Malacca and
Uddin, and this wasan obvious objection Johore to Naples, and Sunghi Ujong
to his appointment, yet Sir Andrew would correspondto Benevento or some
Clarke excuses this appointment by place in the Kingdom of Naples, in the
stating that he had transferredhis claims interior, on the southern slopes of the
to Messrs. Guthrie—a transfer which, Appenines—sothat it is separatedfrom
on the evidence of the Blue Book, is Perak by Salangore, or the States of
palpably colourable. No reply of the the Church. A battle was fought in
noble Earl to this dispatchof Sir Andrew Sunghi Ujong, in which eight of Her
Clarke appears in the Correspondence. wMaasjeisttyb'seltireovoepdsinwetrheiskiclloeudn. trSyothlaitttlae
Sir William Jervois then by proclama¬
tion, and acting without instructions general invasion of the Malay Peninsula
from home, as he stated to his Legis¬ was being carriedon that The Timesfell
lative Council, altered the arrangement into natural mistake of describing this
made by Sir AndrewClarke, and vested action as having occurred in Perak. It

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will be remembered that it has been alities : certaintyno Arab among them
alleged that the intervention in the would be received by his respectable
Malay Peninsula was dictated by a fellow-countrymen. Their leader is a
desire for civilizationand the welfare of CanadianFrenchman,with traditions of
the Malays. Here is one of the results Huron and Iroquois warfare. Should
of Sir Andrew Clarke's policy as de¬ not this remind the noble Earl of Lord
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When the ColonialPress expresses itself Chinamanfor the loss of his property
in this manner,it fully exonerates me Will the noble Earl inform your Lord¬
from any charge of precipitation in ships how much his policy has already
calling the attention of the House to cost the countryin lives andexpenditure,
such proceedings, and to the way in and whether as many lives have not
which they have imperilledthe fairfame been lost as in the AshanteeExpedition?
of England. Your Lordshipswill have How many officers and men have died
observedthat a force of Arabs are men¬ of jungle fever or cholerabesides those
tioned, who made a blackened line that have been reported To concludo,
throughwhat has beencalledthe "fairest will Her Majesty's Governmentjustify
portion of the oarth." I believe these the bloodshed which has taken place,
men were collected from variousnation¬ and state whetherthey orthe officialsiu

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undertakingfurtherresponsibilityin the "Singapore2,9thOct.,1875."
Malay Peninsula. Since that time there
has been nliuttmlebiemr opfro"vuenmceonntf,airnmdeadt"othffiis¬ Last Saturday's newspapers announced
time the that Mr. Whampoa had received a de¬

cials and acting appointments,are the corationof St.^GeorgeancVSt.Michael,
subject of general complaint in the at the noble Earl's recommendation.
Straits, and in the Colonial Press. I
then mentioned that the system of Perhaps the noble Earl will informyour
"virements" or transferof unexpended Lordshipswhy he has not also rewarded
balances, as the noble Earl then named the other four sturdy and independent
it, or of spending money for a purpose defenders of financial order, especially
differentfrom that for which it hadbeen
Mr. Eead, who^has long enjoyed the
esteem of his fellow-colonists.
voted had becomegeneral in the Straits
Government;I should fearthat this bad
example has affected the noble Earl MovedThat an humble Address be
himself, since he has eked out the re¬ presented to Her Majesty for further
sourcesof the Fiji revenue by transfer¬ Correspondence respecting the Malay
ring an unexpendedJudge of Penang to Peninsula.—{LordStanleyof Alderley.)

Fiji. I gather from the newspapersthat
out of four Judges belonging to the
Straits, only one is at his post. Perhaps After short debate—
the noble Earl follows the maxim,
"Inter Anna silent leges." But the Loed STANLEY of ALDEELEY
non-officialmembers of the Legislative said, in reply, that he complainedof the
Councilat Singapore do not agree with noble Earl's putting words into his
it, and gave to the Governorthis protest mouthto obtain cheersfrom his Friends.
for transmission to the Secretary of
State. He had said nothing of Her Majesty's
troops; he had spokenof an Arab force,
and M. Fontaine was not in Her Ma¬

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