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OF THE ARCHIPELAGO* 479 These interesting results of the English invasion deserve the most serious consideration of all who legislate for Indian colonies. If the goodness of a government is to be judged of by the attachment of the great body of its subjects, the Spanish admi- nistration of the Philippines stands higher than any other which was ever established in the Archipela- go, and probably higher than that of the British government of India, though regulated with so much greater care, skill, and moderation. In all previous invasions of the Indian settlements, of one European power by another, the moment the military strength of the invading party was over- come, the whole colony yielded at once. The conquest of the Portuguese garrison of Malacca was immediately followed by the conquest of the territory attached to it. The conquest of the strongholds of the Portuguese in the Moluccas was equivalent, as far as the overthrow of the European power was concerned, with the conquest or possession of the whole Moluccas. The defeat of the European army of the Dutch in Java, in 1811, was almost immediately followed by the on tilt' subject of those commotions, he ordered that all the Chinese in the islands should be hanged^ which orders were put in execution very generally, but vvhen the order had been disregarded, he readily overlooked the omission." — Zuniga, Chap. XVI.