THE FOUNDING OF SINGAPORE.
This interesting letter of Sir T. S. Raffles has been kindly placed at the disposal of the Straits Asiatic Society by the Chairman of the Raffles Library and Museum Committee, with the following explanation.
Sir,
I was requested when leaving England, by my friend Mr. T. Dunman, formerly Commissioner of Police, Straits Settlements. to take charge of the enclosed most interesting letter from Sir Stamford Raffles to Colonel Addenbrooke, dated Singapore the 10th June 1879, and to offer it to the Raffles Museum here in the name of T. H. Scholefield Esq. of Bournemouth, Devonshire, to whom it belongs.
I have no doubt you will consider the letter, containing as it does the views of the Founder of the Settlement at the time of his taking possession, of sufficient value and interest to provide for its safe-keeping in the Raffles Museum.
- The Chairman of
- The Committee of Management
- of the Raffles Museum.
- The Committee of Management
My dear Colonel.
You will probably have to consult the Map in order to ascertain from what part of the world this letter is dated. Refer to the extremity of the Malay Peninsula where you will observe several small Islands forming the Straits of Singapore. On one of these are the ruins of the ancient Capital of "Singapura," or "City of the Lion" as it is called by the Malays. Here I have just planted the British Flag. and a more commanding and promising Station for the pro-
