Sultan Abdul Samad accepts the first British…
1875 CE
In October of this same year, Sultan Abdul Samad sends a letter to Andrew Clarke requesting for Selangor to be placed under the British protectorate.
In November 1873, a ship from Penang had been attacked by pirates near Kuala Langat, Selangor.
After a number of subsequent piracy attacks in Selangor, Clarke had assigned Frank Swettenham as a live-in advisor to Sultan Abdul Samad in August 1874.
Swettenham is highly influential in shaping British policy and the structure of British administration in the Malay Peninsula.
Swettenham had been first sent to Singapore in 1871 as a cadet in the civil service of the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca, and Penang Island).
Learning the Malay language, he plays a major role as British-Malay intermediary in the events surrounding British intervention in the peninsular Malay states in the 1870s.
He is a member of the Commission for the Pacification of Larut set up following the signing of the Pangkor Treaty of 1874 and he serves alongside Chief Commissioner John Frederick Adolphus McNair, and Chinese Kapitan Chung Keng Quee and Chin Seng Yam.
The Commission is successful in freeing many women taken as captives during the Larut Wars (1862–73), getting stockades dismantled and getting the tin mining business going again.
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