xperience for General Janssens, for it was
not only the crowning misery of his defeat but marked the end of his
military career, assuming that his Imperial master retained his power in
Europe.

"Souvenez vous, Monsieur," Napoleon is reported to have said to him
upon taking up his appointment, "Qu'un General Francais ne se laissa pas
prendre une seconde fois!"

The island having been wrested from the French, the British authorities
set about the reform of the civil administration. This was not to be
accomplished, however, without a test of strength between the natives
and their new masters. An act of treachery soon called the troops into
the field again.

During the Governorship of Marshal Daendels, the Sultan of Djocjakarta
had been the most turbulent and intriguing of the native princes, and
his conduct immediately after the British occupation gave occasion for
serious uneasiness. Mr. Stamford Raffles, who had been appointed by Lord
Minto Lieutenant-Governor of Java in December, 1811, went in person to
see the Sultan. A treaty was entered into, under which the Sultan
confirmed to the Honourable East India Company all the privileges,
advantages and prerogatives which had been possessed by the Dutch and
French authorities. To the Company also were transferred the sole
regulation of the duties and the collection of tribute within the
dominions of the Sultan, as well as the general administration of
justice in cases where British interests were concerned.

This expedition of Mr. Raffles seems to have had exciting experiences,
for we read:

"The small British escort which accompanied Mr. Raffles,
consisting only of a part of the 14th Regiment, a troop of the
22nd Light Dragoons and the ordinary garrison of Bengal Sepoys
in the Fort and at the Residency, were not in a condition to
enforce terms anyway obnoxious to the personal feelings of the
Sultan. The whole retinue, indeed, of the Governor were in
imminent danger of being murdered. Krises were actually
unsheathed by several of the Sultan's own suite in the Audience
Hall where Mr. Raffles received that Prince, who was accompanied
by several thousands of armed followers expressing in their
behaviour such an infuriated spirit of insolence as openly to
indicate that they only waited for the signal to perpetrate the
work of destruction, in which case not a man of our brave
soldiers, from the manner in which they we