Mss Eur Mack Private 4

1, pp. i, 1-92: Bantam, 30 November 1786. Bedenkingen over den Staat van Bantam door den Heer J: de R: [=Jan de Rovere] van Breugel. The author was an official in the Dutch East India Company's service at Bantam for some years (see 5 infra): The title covers :- (a) pp. 1-2: Voorrberigt. A preface of the usual formal kind. (b) pp. 3-92: Bedenkingen over Bantam. [The fuller title B. o. den Staat v. B. is written at the head of all the succeeding pairs of pages.] For another copy of 4. 1 (a) and (b), see Mack. Class XIV, 28. Printed, with a few verbal variations and some not very material omissions in Bijdr. tot de Taal-, -Land- en Volkenkunde v. Ned.-Ind. (1856), Nieuwe Volgr., le Deel, pp. 110-39. (The omissions are: pp. 1-2, the preface; pp. 49-58, dealing chiefly with matters of Military sanitation, and referred to on p. 132 of the printed copy, l.c., as being no longer of importance, and pp. 74-92, containing reflections on abuses in connexion with the pepper trade, and suggestions for reforms therein, referred to on p. 139, 1.c.) See also Mack. Misc., index reference s.v. Bantam.

2; pp. 103-66: Aanmerlcingen op den teegenswoordigen Btaat Van s Compagnies bestier tot Bantam om te dienen tot 'een vervolg op de Bedenlcingen over 't selfde suject. Notes supplementing 1 supra, by the same author. Divided into 10 Chapters, preceded by an Introduction. The latter (pp. 103:-5) gives some account of the author's 'reasons for writing 1 supra, and refers to the request, made by the authorities, that the author should not print his work, as stated in Bijdr., &c. (1856), p. ,107. In the 10 Chapters the author has arranged, on a more or less alphabetical system, a number of notes and references connected with the affairs of Bantam, drawn from the files of "the office there, viz., the Correspondence with Batavia, Tulang Bawang and Sĕmangka, Miscellaneous Papers, the Official Journal (“ Dag Register "), and the Political and Judicial Orders of Government. These notes are often very brief, amounting to little more than an index, or list of the dockets of the papers in question, giving their dates and classification. After such a chapter he generally comments, often at some length, on some of the subjects briefly mentioned in it. The matters referred to being so numerous and miscellaneous, it is impossible to indicate their nature in general terms or give a full list of them. The following are the chief sub-headings where the author enlarges somewhat (I follow the divisions of the original into chapters, sections and subsections) :- Chapter 1 (pp. 107-16): (section) 1. Aanhaling van goederen (A. Lijwaaten, B. Amphioen, C. Boetens, D. Prauwen zonder passen.) (section) 2. Advis. (section) 3. Armbusse. (section) 4. Affaires en secreete brieven, &c. Chapter 2 (pp. 116-20): (section) 1. Bantammers. (section) 2. Boedels van overleedene. (section) 3. Brandspuijten. Chapter 3 (pp. 121-8): (section) 1. Cattoene gaarens. (section) 2. Ceremonien. (section) 5. Contanten aan de koning. (section) 6. Correspondentie met een inlandsche vorsten. (section) 7. Crediteeren aan Bantammers. (section) 8. Chineesen. (section) .9. Compagnies slaaven. Chapter 4 (pp. 128-9): (section) 1. Damar Batoe [=damar batu, " rosin "]. (section) 4. Dagregister. . . Chapter 5 (pp. 129-31): (section) 1. Emolumenten [i.e., of the Commandeur]. Chapter 6 (pp. 131-6): (section) 1. Geldleening (particuliere aan den koning). (section) 3. Goud stof. (section) 4. Grond Eigendom. (section) 5. Gragt. (section) 6. Guarnisoens be paling. Chapter 7 (pp. 136-40): (section) 1. Handel. (section) 2. Hoofden. (section) 3. Hospitaal. Chapter 8 (pp. 140-2): (section) 1. Indigo. (section) 2. Inlandsche Christenen. Chapter 9 (pp. 142-6): (section) 1. Koning. (section) 3. Klok. Chapter 10 (pp. 146-66): (section) 1. Lampong Toulang Bauwang [=Tulang Bawang]. (section) 2. Lasten [including the author's scheme for retrenchment and reform of the Government establishments of Bantam]. Bijdr., (1856), pp. 165-70 contain (with slight verbal. variations) excerpts from the commentaries in the above, viz., Chapter 1 (section) 1 (B), 3 (section) I, 6 (section) 3, (section) 4, 7 (section) 2, 8 (section) 1.

3, pp. 171-4: Continuation or Second Volume of the Remarks over the prsent state & manner of Governing of the Honorable Netherlands East India Company at Bantam, to serve as a Continuation upon the Reflexions over the Same Subject. First Chapter. Translation of the beginning of 4 infra (q.v.), ending, “The inconveniency that derives from 4 here is” corresponding with the middle of 1. 11 of text of p. 179 intra. The English of this translation is even worse than is usual in these volumes.

4, pp. 175-228: Aan boord van 't schip de Juffrouw Johanna den 5 Meij 1788. Vervolg of Tweede Deel der Aanmerkingkingen [sic] over den tegenswoordigen Staat en Regeeringswijze der Edele Nederlandsche Oost Indische Compagnie tot Bantam. Om te dienen tot een vervolg op de Bedenkingen over 't zelfde sujet. Continuation of 2 supra by the author of, 1 supra, further supplementing that paper. Like 2 supra, it is in 10, chapters, divided into sections and subsections, and followed by commentaries. I give the chief sub-headings, as under 2 supra :- Chapter 1 (pp. 175-81): (section) 1. Mandareese Smokkelaars. (section) 4 [numbered (section) 3 in the commentary]. Monstering Oeneraale , op de Buijten Comptoiren. (section) 5. Moord aan den Soldaat Grampener op Tjeconing [=Chikoneng] gepleegt. Chapter 2 (pp. 181-2): (section) 1. Negotie in Straat, &c. (section) 2. Noote Muscaate Boomen. Chapter 3 (pp. 183-93): (section) 1. Olij. (section) 3. Opneem van Peeper. Chapter 4 (pp. 193-8): (section) 1. Passen. (section) 2. Paarlen. (section) 4. Pagten. (section) 5. Peeper. Chapter 5 (pp. 198-9): (section) 1. Rijksbestierder. Chapter 6 (pp. 199-205): (section) 3. Selibon [referring to a British encroachment in Southern Sumatra in A.D. 1744 after the establishment of Bencoolen, and the steps taken by the Dutch Company in 1763 to check the further spread of British influence in that quarter]. (section) 4. Sendelingen des Konings. (section) 5 Sluijkerijen. (section) 6. Sillebar [=Sĕlebar; referring to the English settlement at Bencoolen]. (section) 7. Stilstaande Wateren. Chapter 7 (pp. 205-6): (section) 1. Toulang Bauwang [=Toulang Bawang]. Chapter 8 (pp. 206-9): (section) 2. Verbanning yan Chineesen op bloot verzoekt des Konings gewijgert Anno 1731. (section) 3. Vergadering van Justitie, &c., (section) 4. Verpandelingep Bantamse verbooden te hebben als op schriftelijk bewijs, &c. Chapter 9 (pp. 209-15): (section) 1. Waagen en Paarden. (section) 2. Wees opzienderen. (section) 4. Zout pannen. (section) 5. Zeerovers.' Chapter 10 (pp. 215-28): (section) 1-5 have no real sub-headings, but give detailed information about the then ruling king of Bantam and his ministers and chiefs. (section) 4 brief conclusion, and: a note correcting an error in Chapter 10 of 2 supra, conclude this part of the work. Bijdr., (1856); pp. 139-64, contain (with slight 'verbal' variations) excerpts from the commentaries in the above, viz., Chapter 1, (section) 1, 2 (section) 2, 3 (section) 1 (A), (section) 3, 4 (section) 2, 7 (section) 1, 8 (section) 3, (section) 4, 9 (section) 1, (section) 5, 10 (section) 1-5.

5, pp. 239-61: Naam Lyst der Sulthans, Commandeurs, Secundens, Capitains, Fiscaal, en Scribas tot Bantam zeedert dat de Edele oost Indische Compagnie haaren zeetel aldaar gevestigt heeft waar bij gevoegd is de quantitijt Peeper door de Compagnie ingekogt of aan dezelve geleeverd-mits gaders een appendix van de Residenten van Lampong Toulang Bauwang [ = Tulang Bawang] en Lampong Samanca [=Sĕmangka]. Tables by the author of 1 supra. The subheadings are :- (p. 240): Naamen der Respective Kooningen van Bantam, beneevens de Jaaren hunner Regeering, als meede de successive Hoofden, welke Comp(s) weegen alhier geresideert hebben, en het Jaar hunner verbeetering, Ohangement, dan wel overleijden, alles zeedert den Jaare 1682 tot 1787. (pp. 240-1): Pree Advis. A brief historical preface. (pp. 241-53): Naamen der : Sulthans - Command(s) - Secundens - Capiteins - Fiscaals - Scribas - Peeper. There follows a table arranged under the above headings. This table is fuller than the one printed in Bijdr., (1856), pp. 358-61, as the latter omits the series headed Secundens, Fiscaals, and Scribas. There are also some variants and additional notes in the MS., which continues to 1787, when the author (who appears in the list of Secundens in 1782) returned to Europe, and was succeeded by J. van den Boogaart, the latter being succeeded in his former office of Fiscaal by J. H. C. van Cattenburch. The entries for 1784 have been cancelled by ink lines, see infra. (p. 254): Sommarium. Summary of the above-mentioned lists, fuller than the one printed in Bijdr., l.c., p. 362. The amount of pepper is given for 100 years instead of 96, as there. (pp. 255-8): Continuation of the table from p. 253. The last year given is 1807. (pp. 259-61): De Residentien van Lampong Toulang Bawang [=Lampong Tulang Bawang], Lampong Samanca [=Lampong Sĕmangka]. A table similar to the one printed in Bijdr., 1.c., p. 362, but fuller, and with some variants and additional notes. It goes down to the year 1793 inclusive, and gives the dates and names of the Residents and Assistents, &c., of these places, with other information of local interest.

6, pp. 267-72: Jaarlijksche Inkoms[ten] van den Koning van Bant[am] zo als dezelve geweest zijn bij h[et] overlijden van den Sultan Abo[el] Fatasc Mocchidien Dzainoel Assikin [=Abu-'I-Fat̤aḥ Muḥidin Zainu-‘l-‘Ashiḳin] op den 18 : Maart 1804. Apparently an original document. Gives detaili of the rents payable to the Sultan of Bantam, and an estimate of his salt revenue, the two together (after certain customary deductions, e.g., table money to. the Commandeur) amounting to Spanish dollars 22,034.24, to which is to be added the pepper revenue (of which the total amount is missing owing to a tear in the MS.), making a grand total of Spanish dollars 46,394.24. In August 1802 the figures were :- General revenue - 26,375.16 Pepper - 27,370 Total - 53,745.16 (Spanish dollars). Showing a decrease since that year of Spanish dollars 7,350.54.

7, pp. 285-93: [Batavia, 30 September 1811]. Memorie gediend aan den Hoog Edele Heer! de Heer T. Raffles, Luitenant Gouverneur van Java, enz: enz: enz: The letter may be an original. The last half page, containing the author's , name, has been torn off, leaving only the end of the name. The writer was J. de Bruin, formerly Resident at Bantam. The date is also wanting, but the English version (see infra) gives it, as above. The letter was written in answer to one addressed by Raffles to the writer, and dated 16 September 1811, enclosing a number of queries relating to the office of Landdrost [=prefect] in the kingdom of Bantam. So far as can be gathered from the above reply, the queries related to (1) the changes which had taken place in that kingdom in recent years, their causes, and the persons affected- thereby, (2) the actual system of government of the kingdom, the character and power of the last king, (3) the state of cultivation, police and judicial administration, density of the population, &c., (4) the character of the people, (5) the condition of affairs in the Lampong districts of Sumatra, (6) the steps that could most successfully be taken by the British Government in order to get the most advantage out of Bantam, (7) the articles of trade, particularly between Bantam and the Lampongs, (8) relation of expenditure to revenue, and establishment necessary to be maintained, (9) the actual establishment, as under the late French Government and the King of Bantam, and their emoluments, and (10) the best means of communication between Bantam and Batavia. 'The replies to these queries deal with the above points, and include an interesting historical sketch of the relations of the Sultanate of Bantam to the Dutch authorities, criticizing the Policy of the latter, particularly that of Governor General Daendels, a brief account of the actual political condition of the country in 1811, with some notice of its administrative system, population, economic condition (especially in relation to the, cultivation of pepper), suggestions as to improved methods of administration under the British Government, with an estimate of the establishment required, and proposals for communicating between Bantam and Batavia by sea in small postal boats pending the improvement of the country roads. An English version, slightly abridged, is in a volume of Mack. Misc.; see the Index thereto, B.V. Bruin.