Mss Eur Mack Trans XIV.10

(a) Apparently a fragment of some more extended treatise, as it begins somewhat abruptly.

It begins by outlining the essentials of a scheme of organization of the Batavian environs for defensive purposes, assigning various duties to various officials, from the Governor General downwards. Then come sections headed as follows:

• Of the execution of orders;
• Of orders in case of alarm;
• Etat Major [i.e. the staff required for a camp];
• Order of the service in the Campement;
• Of the order of service for the Batteries;
• Of the retrenchment of Tanjong Park [presumably Tanjong Periok is meant];
• Etat Major [i.e. the staff required in this retrenchment]
• Supposing the enemy had landed between Tanjong Park and Tjeelintjing [= Chilinching];
• Of equipping the batteries [giving details of the number of men required for each];
• Of the sounds and patrols;
• Muster [= pattern] of an Order Book;
• Order of the March for two Batallions of Infantry with four field pieces and its appurtenances, a squadron of dragons and the necessary load waggons, to place themselves on a sport, where they may meet the enemy, along a known road.

(b) Letter from F G de Niese to Mackenzie 13 September 1815, forwarding some papers (presumably the following).

(c) Tana [= Tanah] Abang, August 1801. Translation from the Dutch of Mackenzie Private 77 (a), q.v., being a letter from the author of the following paper to Governor General van Overstraten.

(d) Tana [= Tanah] Abang, August 1801.Periodical speculation of the political consistence, connexion & state of affairs of the Company in India, relative to the defence, retreat and capitulation of Batavia, with some projects & plans to the safety of the Company's possessions in India, by van Boeckholtz. [In margin] Drawn up by direction of His Excellency Van Overstraaten, but by his sickness & followed death, not delivered. Since delivered to His Excellency, the Governor General Sieberg.

The contents of this work, which comprise some rather abstract discussions on various political considerations and military operations, &c, are sufficiently indicated by the section headings:-

• Art. 1: Of the political connexion & existence of the Company;
• 2: Of the Government & State of affairs of the Company;
• 3: Of the political speculation of defence;
• 4: Of retreat founded on military & political art;
• 5: Of the speculation to the plan of retreat;
• 6: Of capitulation;
• 7: Further views;
• 8: Of the prejudice of a capitulation, by the Supreme Government as a sovereign body;
• 9: Of retreat;
• 10: Of the particular loss of the Supreme Govt;
• 11: Proposal of Improvement;
• 12: Of improper prejudices of many one relating to the concern of the Supreme Govt to the Town of Batavia;
• 13: Proposed measures;
• 14: Proposal to improce the defence & cover the retreat;
• 15: Second improvement to defence;
• 16: The Supreme Govt to have no Relation to Batavia;
• 17: Further proposal to the improvement of defence relative to the retreat;
• 18: Further measures for the retreat;
• 19: Further objections;
• 20: Expenses of the retreat;
• 21: Further political benefits of the retreat & conclusion;
• 22: The King of Bantam politically viewed;
• 23: The Princes of Cheribon & Madura, politically viewed;
• 24: The plan of inundation, viewed relative to this scheme;
• 25: The inundation politically viewed;
• 26: The conclusion.

The following appendices are annexed:-

• Schedule No 1. Plan of an Instruction for the Governor & Council of the Subaltern Government of Batavia - the contents having relation only to the plans of capitulation & retrear aforesaid; in 13 articles.
• No. 2. Plan of Capitulation for the Government of Batavia; 21 articles.
• No. 3. Calculative project to the execution of this plan on the necessary works and costs involved.
• No. 4: Further remarks as to the advantage and to the prejudice of the former and the present plan of retreat.

Finally, a Table of Contents.

It is curious to find a draft of a capitulation prepared some ten years or more before the actual conquest - and by the defeated party in anticipation of the event. But the situation of Java during the wars that sprang from the French revolution was chronically precarious.

Translated from the Dutch of Mackenzie Private 77 (b).

(e) Means of procuring water to the ditches of Batavia in the dry season. Translated from a memorandum, apparently addressed to the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies some time after 1780, explaining a project with the above object. A copy of the Dutch original is contained in Mackenzie Miscellaneous.

(f) The Heathen laws among the Wellales and Chitty's on the Coast of Cormondel. By Jacob Mossel, Governor of Coromandel. A summary code of the Hindu law applicable to the above named castes, under the following sub-headings:-

• Men and Women and the difference in their rights;
• Kindred legitimate or unlawfull born;
• Those of age and minors;
• Power of the parents over their own and their adopted children;
• Of marriage;
• Of separation;
• Of guardianship & guardians;
• Of succession and inheritance;
• Of inheritance and who may and must be appointed heirs;
• Of legitimate portion and necessitated inheritance;
• Of legacies;
• Of the succession of intestate and division thereof;
• Of possessions [this last section should have been headed 'Undivided or Joint Ownership']

Translated from the Dutch of Mackenzie Private 55.11.