Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= [Illustration: Decoration] BUILDERS OF GREATER BRITAIN EDITED BY H. F. WILSON, M.A. _Barrister-at-Law Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Legal Assistant at the Colonial Office_ [Illustration: DEDICATION BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN] BUILDERS OF GREATER BRITAIN 1. SIR WALTER RALEGH; the British Dominion of the West. By MARTIN A. S. HUME. 2. SIR THOMAS MAITLAND; the Mastery of the Mediterranean. By WALTER FREWEN LORD. 3. JOHN AND SEBASTIAN CABOT; the Discovery of North America. By C. RAYMOND BEAZLEY, M.A. 4. EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD; the Colonization of South Australia and New Zealand. By R. GARNETT, C.B., LL.D. 5. LORD CLIVE; the Foundation of British Rule in India. By Sir A. J. ARBUTHNOT, K.C.S.I., C.I.E. 6. ADMIRAL PHILLIP; the Founding of New South Wales. By LOUIS BECKE and WALTER JEFFERY. 7. RAJAH BROOKE; the Englishman as Ruler of an Eastern State. By Sir SPENSER ST JOHN, G.C.M.G. 8. SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES; England in the Far East. By the EDITOR. Builders of Greater Britain RAJAH BROOKE [Illustration: Decoration] [Illustration: Brooke (signature)] RAJAH BROOKE THE ENGLISHMAN AS RULER OF AN EASTERN STATE BY SIR SPENSER ST JOHN, G.C.M.G. AUTHOR OF ‘HAYTI; OR, THE BLACK REPUBLIC,’ ‘LIFE IN THE FORESTS OF THE FAR EAST,’ ETC. LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE MDCCCXCIX _Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, for Great Britain and the United States of America_ PREFACE I have undertaken to write the life of the old Rajah, Sir James Brooke, my first and only chief, as one of the Builders of Greater Britain. In his case the expression must be used in its widest sense, as, in fact, he added but an inappreciable fragment to the Empire, whilst at the same time he was the cause of large territories being included within our sphere of influence. And if his advice had been followed, we should not now be troubled with the restless ambition of France in the Hindu-Chinese regions, as his policy was to secure, by well defined treaties, the independence of those Asiatic States, subject, however, to the beneficent influence of England as the Paramount Power, an influence to be used for the good of the governed. Sir James thoroughly understood that Eastern princes and chiefs are at first only influenced by fear; the fear of the consequences which might follow the neglect of the counsels of the protecting State.