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 HISTORY OF JAVA CONTINUED. 335 to redeem his character. It is unnecessary to add, after this, that numerous insurrections took place. His own son-inlaw, a native of Madura, named Truna Jatja, abetted by his son and the heir to his throne, revolted in the year 1595 of Salivana, (A. D. 1672,) and this rebellion terminated in the conquest of the whole of the eastern districts, and eventually in that of the centre, the expulsion of the tyrant from his throne, and the seizure of his capital. In his flight to Tagalsihev this event, he was taken ill and died on his road. I shall proceed' briefly to narrate a few of the incidents of this reign, by which we shall be en- abled to appreciate the character of the sovereign, and of the society over which he presided. Shortly after his accession to the throne, the F anger an Alit, his younger brother, entered into a conspiracy against him. The principal instigator of this transaction was a noble of the name of Sing- smgan. The Sultan bein^ duly apprised of his danger, had the noble secretly put to death. On the following day, when the young prince appeared in the presence, the first spectacle which offered itself to him, was the bloody head of his friend sus- pended from the Sultan's own hand by the hair. The Sultan indignantly threw it down at his bro- ther's feet, who, to make his peace, and saVe his life, began with a baseness equal to the ferocity of the other, to insult the head by wounding and