an to the title of
Sultan Muda (or young sultan), and, together with his brothers and
followers, was living in security, when he was attacked by orders
of the sultan at night, and together with thirteen of his family,
killed in different places. Four brothers, viz. Pangeran Muda
Mahomed, Pangeran Abdul Kader, Pangeran Abdulraman, and Pangeran
Mesahat, together with several young children of the Rajah Muda
Hassim, alone survive. The deponent Japper was in attendance on
his lord, the Pangeran Budrudeen, at the time of the attack. The
Pangeran, though surprised by his enemies, fought for some time,
and when desperately wounded, retired outside his house with his
sister and another woman named Koor Salem. The deponent was there
and was wounded, as were both the women. The Pangeran Budrudeen
ordered deponent to open a keg or cask of gunpowder, which he did;
and the last thing his lord did was to take his ring from his
finger and desire the deponent to carry it to Mr. Brooke; to bid
Mr. Brooke not to forget him, and not to forget to lay his case
before the Queen of England. The deponent then quitted his lord,
who was with the two women, and immediately after his lord fired
the powder, and the three were blown up. The deponent escaped
with difficulty; and a few days afterward, the ring intrusted
to his charge, was taken from him by the sultan. The sultan,
and those with him, killed the Rajah Muda Hassim and his family,
because he was the friend of the English and wanted to suppress
piracy. The sultan has now built forts and defied the English. He
talked openly of cutting out any vessel that arrived; and two
Pangerans went down, bearing the flag of the Rajah Muda Hassim,
to look at the vessel, and to kill the captain if they could get
him ashore. The deponent had great difficulty in getting to the
ship; and should his flight be discovered, he considers the lives
of the surviving portion of the Rajah Muda Hassim's family will be
in danger. The deponent did what he was ordered, and what his late
lord, the Pangeran Budrudeen, desired him to do. The sultan had
a man ready to send, named Nakoda Kolala, to Kaluka, to request
that Pangeran Macota would kill Mr. Brooke by treachery or poison.

(_Signed_)
J. Brooke.

Having put Mr. Brooke on his guard, the Hazard proceeded to Singapore