KertaSura.
’Ai-j/iesi.
A. D-17'08.
PakubttfLna §J
the castle* demanded that he should deli^eroip his Jms~ before-being adulated
to^an audience, j^higbuthe. refused "to do. When, haw every .introduced
jsj to ^llfe:high\®§g6gcy,j whq. had-fopen; especially' assembled for his-Jjece.ption,
lie, prostrated himself at the feet of .the: goyernoF-gerieral; surrend.esilA.&is
Mis, and implored the ifulfiUp-ent; of the conditions-on whihh-fop/surrendered.
The governor-general replied» that.Mr. Knot had notheehalithorized either
to grant him a pardon or to make premises, yet fh’at government would
take ,tbe matter into, cojisideratiejp j-.-his kris was then, returned »to him. He
was lodged in the eastle a^s a .prisoner of war, and s„oon -afterwards,-transported
!tb Ceylon. y-
The aGCoUntpf/this transaction.’ by the, Javan. writeris is as follows ; . ,
“ .The Busunan MwngJmmt Masim&tdheAdipdli JTfra^^dr# i(sgnj§f
Surapdti) had not; bee»i long at Mdlang before tb.ey-'Wermattaekod ,<fey Pan-
^SrmtA^^Tf forced to-seek safety'in the-forests with only a fewlfolfow-
rers.„ Thhre -they suffered severely, from disease j , and most of them dying,
the rest removed to the land of Blitar, whence the Susunan'M&b a. letter >tp
the c h i e f-Hutch authority at Surabdya, asking him why .theoDutch-had thus
-assisted the Banger an.lydgar. against him, and deprived /him ?of ;.the sceptre
which liad descended-to him from his ancestors,-.adding.that he was himself
■ equally the -friend ’of the Dutch,- that he had: ney.^harboured a thought
injurious todhein;. and [that if they/still1 believed*that! he had beenguilfy-v^
a fault- against tbefo, ■ b< .woukLbe- well if they1'/would- pointer opt,that he
might exert his utnfost.to make amejods,,:,d'or- this (the y might /fy^y-depend
-on hinfca* therefore,” , said he, “ detqtjie Dutch '.place confid.enqe:M2mg,
“ let them, consider my youth, and that it'is yet^nt- a short, tipjeuthat I
i ** .have:been a sovereign.” -To_ this the /Dutch authority, replied,, ikTfg-tbe
*ƒ Susunan wishes to aqt thus, and his intentions are-good, let him ,coiUe tp
Susunan Mangkurat thenjiequested, tbatjf.-the Dutch wguld
-not' again place,him -on the throne* they would assign, him - aprQyjoeej>d.n
which he and his family might reside in peace. A promise being gryen to
that ©Sect, -he 1 immediately proceeded to Surabdya,- where hie was /received
with all honoars*and‘the customary salutes, and'afterwards entertained with
'the^utM'officers iri' the IPassangrahan of the Atiwdti of 'Surap&ya: T h e
Dutch, authority,at"last sard to him .with the- utmost kindness, and softness of
speech,,“ I f the Sus&nan has no objection, I am anxious that we should go
to"Somdrcmg to -see the commissary; from thence the Susdnan can at
“ once" proceed bSKdrtd-sura, and request the Dutch again to acknowledge
» . / • a " him
** ihim as sovereign,of Java/*’ The Susunan immediately,assented to this
ari'angemepjt. ;.was »then, with -bis- family^ and followers, .embarked on
hoard a shjp j )iutiinstead'af ibeiqg, conveyed to Semavang, he was taken to
Batavia, and afterwards banished/to Ce-ylon.”.
i It .appears dbat after the, arrival of-Mangkurat Mas at Ceylon, he found
means to dispatch letters-, of .complaint do the Prince of rOrsnge and the
Court ,-of (Directors in Holland, T-wo Mahometan (priests charged with
the*mission, fout.the letters; beingdntercepted, the messengers ;were subjected
i4o seyere punishment^. j
-. .With Mar^bjwmf.'Mas was-lost-the-celebFatedpwja^oto^.or 4pjowp of" Mqja-
pdhil. „The regalia-tof-the^soypreigpSj of Java, with the e-xceptipn. of .this I
important article,- -wereplu-ly .delivered. overy by prder-ij^^he; -Dutph, ,fo the
acknowledgedr^o-yei'eign.JRababdana^ hut nothing .more rwas .ever- .heaijd^qf
theicrojyr^fj^ndisincefl^at tirne the princes-havc worn a eap, as desfnheTip
another .placp, ,A-s (JmjDrtph.w^pe^now-become supremeipn^ Java, a crown
was perhaps; h'ut an -empty pageant. It cannot,„ however, escape,notice,
that - this -.plpudt,.ornament .of-state-should: fofjt haverbeen ideprived of .its
hri^JtfsJb jewel,:t and after-wards, as there .is tpq '|uughJ.ropm,,to-.suspect,
filched.by the Dutch, who probably stripped-itofoits remaining;jejvels, and
melted- down>th,Cj-goifl fori its ivalue.i
The reipoyal of Mmglcurat Mas did not, -however,, extinguish the flame
of {internal discord/' which still jblazed forth in the eastern-provinces .of Java,
and,wbichriucreased-til] theyear 1 7 1&-1 S. .'CtThe .sent several -em*
bassies-,to Batavia, requestfogiassistanete against.the,chiefs-of Bdtambdngan
.an'dhof -tice-.asl.an-d ,of Madura, j as/well--as against- tthe- Kor^&^. Syrapdti, who
had. their'hiding places <in ■ tho -mountains. On thjstq<j:casipu,.the. Hutch
sanctioned the nomination>of th e1 Panger an' MangJcu, 'Nagdra, ,as .the hereditary
prince, a'ndvpromisedtthe:required auccouFSj against,(th^.rel^elsj b.at took
jcaijpptcuphint out- the -value which-•they.put upon- their,asri?tancp^;pjp|e,ee,pf
policyfj-vhich,tion-.-no pCcasicth,- they,seem,to have forgotten^.-- Theyjadverted
to the-immense-sums they had-at different’ times'advanced, and the extent
.of the obligations which the Susdnan- l=ay-.under-to them,?admonishing him
to act with gr®afo8s,circumspeetion in -futuxej and-tot adopt -such .measures as
,nu^K put a--stop to the civil wars and commotions *which desolat^. .the
tOQunt_Rm‘M
ns,It was not dong^;however, before various:^circumstances concurred to
render the rebels still more formidable. TheLehiefs -bf -Surabaya, Proholing’Oi
and