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 SEQUEL OF JAVANESE HISTORY. 861 tavia, and some sent into banishment to the Cape of Good Hope or Ceylon. (A. J. 1650, A. D. 17^5.)— This prince was succeeded by his son, a lad of a few years old, who reigned twenty-five years, — twenty-five years of warfare and misery. (A. J. iGjf), A. D. 17^9.) — He died in a state of insanity. Like his grand- father, he was called Pakiibuwono, but is distin- guished by the appellation of Sedo LaweyatJ, or he who died at Laweyan. The two great events of his reign, and of that period of the history of Ja- va, are the rebellions of the Chinese and of the prince Mangkubumi, the termination of the last of which he did not live to see. The story of the massacre of the Chinese atBatavia will be told in a subsequent chapter of this work. Suffice it at pre- sent to say, that the Chinese of the city of Batavia had . grown in numbers and wealth that they presumed on their own strength, and the weakness of the rul- ing authority; and that they incurred the jealousy of the Dutch, who, by an act of perfidy which has few examples in the history of an*^ people, and none in that of a civilized one, committed a dreadful and indiscriminate massacre of them. A large body of these people retired from Batavia towards the east, and then commenced the portion of the story which relates to the history of the Javanese They clandes- tinely negocia ted with theSusunan and his ministers, who, at length, burning to free hmiself from the