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• They had recently been in charge of loading the ship 't Buijtenleeven, which was departing for Amboina
• They used 3 Prauwmaijangs (local boats), each loaded with 40 sacks of rice from the Company's warehouse
• They were transporting the rice to the ship 't Buijtenleeven, which was anchored in the harbor
• 2 of the boats capsized on the sandbank in front of the river due to heavy surf
• The third boat was also hit so hard by the waves that all the rice got wet
• The declarants were forced to throw the rice from the third boat overboard

• They had recently been on the return journey from Surabaya
• Due to heavy seas, they lost their small boat or sail when a tow rope of 5 fathoms broke
• They were unable to recover it except by cutting the rope
• At that time, they were anchored with the Pantjallang de Uitkijk at a depth of 22 fathoms
• The declarants and their commander considered themselves not responsible for the loss of the sail

Borhuijsen, a sailor, was appointed as quartermaster on 21 January 1783.

Following a request from the Commander, several young men were hired as soldiers for 5 years at 8 guilders per month, according to regulations:

• Hendrik Bartholomeus Willem van Doorn from Amboina, 15 years old
• Frans Donne from Samarang, 16 years old
• Andries Klein from Joana, 16 years old
• Johan Hendrik Mastrop from Samarang, 16 years old
• Abraham Mathorne from Djokjokanto, 16 years old

After Michiel Moralje died, sailor Leendert Boshuijsen from 's Hagen was appointed as quartermaster at 16 guilders per month under a new 5-year contract. He was to serve as commander on the ship Anna Maria belonging to Oosthoek at Pantjallang.

Blacksmith Francois Andre from Wesoul had worked as supervisor in the blacksmith workshop for a long time and gave satisfaction. He was therefore appointed as master of that workshop at 30 guilders per month under a new 5-year contract starting that day.

Notice was given to fireworks maker Strik about the transport of artillery goods, for which he had to provide the necessary security bond on 21 January 1783.

A report arrived from special commissioners Captain of Dragoons De Chasteavieur and Military Lieutenant De Haase about their inventory of all artillery goods made in late November in the presence of guardian Egbert Arend de Wil. These goods had been under the supervision and responsibility of the late Lieutenant of Artillery Samuel Forsman. It was decided that all these goods were placed under the administration and responsibility of the current ordinary fireworks maker Thomas Magnus Strik. The list of shortages reported by the commissioners was to be given to the trading officials to check against the books to see if everything matched or not, and if shortages were found, a proper report should be made. It was also decided that Strik would provide the necessary security bond for the administration of the artillery.

• 21 January 1783: The Council of Politics met in Semarang. Two members were absent due to illness: merchant and First Warehouse Master Nicolaas Alexander Lelivelt and junior merchant and Second Warehouse Master Jan Boers.
• The merchant and fiscal Ian Otto van Ingen and legal commissioners inspected 18 local ships that had arrived at the harbor. The ships came from Malacca (1 ship), Palembang (1 ship), Banjermassing (4 ships), Mampawa (1 ship), Pontiana (1 ship), Iohar (5 ships), Riouw (4 ships), Tranganoe (1 ship), and Succadana (1 ship).
• All ships were found to carry only permitted goods, including gambier, wax, benzoin, kapok, medicine roots, rattan, reed mats, and other items.
• Based on a proposal by Major and Commander Leendert Hendrik Vermehr, two corporals who had been serving as sergeants were officially promoted to sergeants: Christiaan Godlieb Schornak from Elstrwerde and Alexander Willem Meijer from Potsdam. They would each receive a salary of 20 guilders per month.
• Soldier Andries Hartog from Heeringen was promoted to corporal with a salary of 14 guilders per month.
• All 3 promotions required a new contract of 5 years.

• 22 February 1783: The opportunity to send Clappur oil to Batavia by hired boats was mentioned, and Sourabaija was written to about this.
• A note was made about ammunition goods supplied in Batavia to 4 local Pantjallangs, and how these should be accounted for.
• A note was made about some discharged Madurese soldiers.
• Money matters and their negotiation were to be recorded.
• The construction of the outer cemetery was assigned to engineer Tilon.
• Further payment for required items was to be requested from Their High Excellencies.
• A note was made about the draft of the yearly letters.
• Orders were established regarding the 2 civilian vessels from Ambon and Banda that were permitted to collect rice.
• A note was made about the opened free sailing and trade on and among the 4 Eastern Governments.
• A note was made about a Riouw vessel seized in Sourabaija.
• The exchange of military personnel at the posts Menare and Sambilan was to take place every 3 to 4 months.
• Corporal Lugman was changed to coachman and soldier Wingeman as trumpeter. Van den Sluijs was enlisted as a soldier.
• The Rembang resident was authorized to purchase the still needed iron and nails for a ship under construction, and was ordered to speed up its completion.
• The Joanase resident was also authorized to make private purchases of iron, nails, and so on, with set prices.
• He was also instructed to use balk and Jarrak oil instead of pitch, tar, and Harpuijs for greasing the vessels.
• Instructions were given on what to pay for this.
• Confirmation was given with some papers.

• 21 January 1783: A legal inspection was carried out on 18 local ships.
• Corporal Schornak and Meijer were promoted to sergeants.
• Soldier Hartog was promoted to corporal.
• 5 young men were hired as soldiers.
• Sailor Boshuijsen was appointed as quartermaster.
• Andree was appointed as head blacksmith.
• A notice was made about the transfer of artillery goods to the regular fireworks maker Strik, who had to provide the necessary security.
• Some lost rice was to be written off.
• A lost boat or toll from the patrol ship De Uitkijk was also to be written off.
• A notice was made about the quality of coconut oil delivered there.
• An order and penalty were established for captains of overseas ships that arrived at places other than the permitted locations.
• Instructions about this were sent to the residents of some trading posts.
• It was decided to provide more candles and lamp oil to the military guards in the future.
• Approval from Their High Honors was requested for this.
• A certain instruction was to be introduced for the captain of the Moors.
• It was determined how and when to organize a collection for the needy widows and orphans of Nagapatnam, which had been taken over by the English.
• The congregation was to be encouraged from the pulpit to contribute.
• A similar collection was to be organized at the outlying trading posts.
• Instructions were given on how to handle a ship from Riau that had been seized near Gresik.
• The same procedures were to be observed there.
• The patrol ship De Dankbaarheid was to be brought from Surabaya for repairs.
• Instructions were written to Surabaya about money matters, including how much money could be accepted there in the cash office on bills of exchange.
• Instructions were also given about certain money offered there, both on assignment and on bonds.
• Approval from Their High Honors was obtained for the calculated costs for repairs to the Company's warehouses in Surabaya.
• Approval was given to write off the costs of daily repairs to buildings there.
• A notice was made about the ship from Riau belonging to the Arab Sech Alie that had been released in Surabaya.
• An order was given to hold another ship from Riau that had arrived in Gresik.
• The considerations of Van der Niepoort about the pearl banks in Balambangan were presented to Their High Honors.
• 3 young men were hired as soldiers in Surakarta.
• Corporal Bernik in Yogyakarta was promoted to sergeant.
• Corporal Meer was transferred to postilion.
• The monthly report was approved.
• 22 February: An elder and 2 deacons were appointed.
• Pickart was appointed as cannoneer.
• 6 native soldiers were hired.
• A notice was made about destroyed letters.
• Some Company weapons that had become unusable were to be written off.
• A notice was made about the state of the mortg

The document contains copies of resolutions that were made by the Council of Police in the government of Samarang during the period from September 1782 to February 1783. These resolutions were intended for the Netherlands and were marked with reference number 15.

The document appears to contain only the number 2, which provides insufficient content to create a meaningful historical summary.

• On February 22, 1783, someone thanked the High and Noble authorities for the position he had received.
• The letter was signed by Johannes Siberg, Jacobus van Santen, Leendert Hendrik Vermehr, Nicolaas Alexander Lelievelt, I. O. van Ingen, Martinus Leonardus Gaaswijck, Anthon Barkeij, and E. A. de Wilde in Semarang on February 22, 1783.
• In a postscript, they requested 8 pieces of stone thresholds made of bluestone for gunpowder mills being built there. These thresholds needed to be 8 feet long and 12 inches thick and wide. They asked to be supplied with these as quickly as possible.
• The officials in Surabaya had sent them a request from bookkeeper Jacob van Harling, who had been permitted in the previous year to engage in free trade while his salary was stopped.
• Van Harling requested permission to build a ship or frigate in Gresik, 120 to 125 feet long, with 3 masts and a Dutch rudder.
• They forwarded this request to the High and Noble authorities for approval.
• The document was approved and reviewed by H. Bakhuijsen.

• On 22 February 1783, residents and merchants from Ambon and Banda who had come to Batavia were given permission to return via Macassar if they wished, and the officials in Surabaya were informed about this.
• Regarding a ship from Riouw that had arrived in Surabaya in December: The captain or owner, an Arab named Sech Alie, had his ship seized initially. However, he showed a pass from the Resident in Palembang proving he was not from Riouw but from Palembang. He explained that he had sailed from there in the previous year intending to go to Indragiri, but near the Banca Strait he encountered English privateers. To escape them, he sailed with the wind to Riouw, and from there he traveled with a pass from the ruler to Surabaya.
• The Surabaya officials believed they had no right to keep the ship arrested, especially since two Arabs living in Surabaya, Sait Matjaja and Saitoemar, testified that they knew Sech Alie as a resident of Palembang. According to a letter extract from 24 December 1782, the officials returned the ship and goods to the owner and gave him freedom to do with them as he pleased, which was approved.
• However, another native ship from Riouw belonging to captain Moeda had arrived in Grisee. On 22 February 1783, the merchant Palm and resident Tockens seized this ship and its loaded goods. The Surabaya officials were instructed to require the ship's captain to provide security if he was able to do so, following orders from a letter dated 3 January. If security was provided, he would be allowed to sell the loaded goods and buy others. If he could not provide security, the ship and goods would remain seized until further reports from Malacca about the situation with Riouw were received and a decision was made. The officials later reported that the captain could not provide the required security, so the arrest would remain in place pending further instructions.
• Thanks were given for the promotion of sergeant Casper Bastiaans to ensign, and appreciation was expressed for the promised assistance with European military personnel on Java as soon as reinforcements arrived from Europe.
• The merchant Hendrik Lodewijk Palm, who was without employment there, had been appointed as garrison bookkeeper in Batavia. He would be sent at the first available ship opportunity to take up this position.

• One single bombardier's house
• One run-down building measuring 60 feet long and 24 feet wide without an upper floor

• Housing for officers
• Accommodation for 100 to 180 artillery soldiers

• The gunpowder house at Amsterdam Point was badly damaged by termites, with many floor beams and door frames more than half eaten away. It was also too narrow to process gunpowder properly.
• The gunpowder house near the artillery was too small and very damp, making it difficult to preserve gunpowder.
• Each building could only store 20,000 pounds of gunpowder when barrels were stacked 9 to 10 high.

• 22 February 1783
• Regarding money matters, they expressed their obligation for the approval of setting up negotiations for cash. The supervisors and residents at the coast had to pay back 36,000 rijksdaalders of orphan funds. The Company accepted this amount through bonds at 6% per year.
• They tried to encourage everyone on Java to help the Company with cash, but they could not bring in even a third of what was needed this year. Therefore, they renewed their request to be supplied with cash from the main office.
• The under-merchant, paymaster, bookkeeper and clerk at Surabaya, Wouter Hendrik van IJsseldijk, deposited 2,000 rijksdaalders in the Company's treasury. He requested an assignment to the Netherlands for his representatives: Hendrik Pauw, wine merchant, and Pieter Roos, both living in Amsterdam on the Keizersgracht near the Brouwersgracht. They requested that this assignment be sent to them.
• Following the authorization for household appointments, they had been given permission to build an outer cemetery. This work was assigned to Captain Engineer Jan Baptist Pilon. Building tombs was excused.
• On 27 January, after announcement from the pulpit, a collection was held at the main office in Semarang by church elders, each assisted by a deacon. This collection was for the suffering widows and orphans of Nagapatnam, which had fallen to the English, and for the impoverished residents of Trincomalee, which was raided by the English, and Tuticorin, which was taken after they left. The supervisors and residents of the subsidiary offices were also instructed to hold such a collection at their offices and posts. Once all the money was received, they would report the total amount of all collections on Java and request further instructions.
• Regarding fortifications and buildings, they regretted that they could not be supplied with the requested cannons, including those of 18 and 24 pound caliber, with their round and long sharp shot, as these were not available at the main office and were not expected from the Netherlands soon. They requested to be remembered for these in the future if they arrived with the next ships from the Netherlands. They also made the same request for all goods asked for in their general requisition for this year, especially for iron, nails, copper, and equipment to be sent as soon as possible.

Prince Crain Patengalo encouraged a voyage to transport some Moorish merchants who had arrived on the coast of Macassar 2 years earlier back to their destination with their trade goods. According to merchant Buijs's letter, these goods consisted mainly of 18 to 19 bales of cloves, 122 picol of benzoin, 40 to 50 bales of sandalwood, as well as gold and pieces of eight in coins. To compete with Piera and the Moorish merchants, the Dutch sent a quantity of sandalwood with the black beer to Choromandel around the same time, even though there was still a reasonable amount lying there. They wanted to make the Moorish merchants lose interest in this trade, which was harmful to the Company.

The Dutch were inclined to cut off Francisco Piera completely and forbid him from this place in the future. However, they could not do this because of Prince Crain Patengalo, who traveled with him and was a participant in the business. For various reasons, the Dutch were forced to respect the Prince because:

• He governed the kingdom
• He could do them much good or harm
• The King spent his time with gardens and games

The Dutch especially did not want to make the Prince their enemy given the situation in Amboina, so that he would not be moved to help their enemies. The Prince had promised not to do this or let it happen as far as his subjects were concerned. He could not make rules for foreign traders who visited his harbors.

No representatives of the rebel Amboinese were found there, although there had been persistent rumors for a long time that they had gone there. The King and Prince had also agreed to hand over any who appeared to the Dutch. However, the Dutch did not rely firmly on this, as the Moors were very devoted and loyal to each other.

The terrestrial globe had become somewhat too expensive for his highness, but he had accepted it on the condition that they would not be too hasty with payment and that he could pay with good useful trade goods, which they would allow him. The previous year he had made an offer to deliver a good quantity of rice in Bima, for which they would have sent a special ship, but this could not happen because of the poor harvest in Macassar, where they needed the Bima rice themselves. In the future they would try to come to a further contract with his highness about this, so as to depend less on the Mataram, from whose lands Batavia was principally supplied directly.

Vlamingh had also been to Macassar according to orders, but had not spoken with the King or Prince about the trade in cloves that were brought there from Molucco.

Cornelis Willemsz. van Outhoorn, the Governor, had finished his most recent contract and requested better pay and a higher position. He was considered a man of good character who would likely continue to serve the Company well for several more years. A decision about his request would be made known before this letter was completed.

On the 8th, Vlamingh had visited Bouton on his way and delivered a letter and gifts to the King. He also withdrew the men who had stayed there at the King's request. In their place, King Mandarsaha, whose vassal the King of Bouton was, assigned 10 men from his own people to help him fight against his rebels. A large number of rebels had risen against him and had moved to the other side of the island. No messengers from the Amboinese rebels had been noticed in Bouton at that time. The King promised to hand over any who appeared so they could be punished as they deserved. It was hoped that the rebels would not receive support from there. Since similar situations might occur again, it was considered important to maintain the friendship with this King and to prevent any estrangement as much as possible.

On 14 February, the flute ship the Morgensterre was sent to Macassar to continue trade there, carrying a cargo of various types of cloth worth 59,914 guilders, 17 stuivers, and 14 penningen. This ship returned safely on 5 May, thank God. It brought back, along with the flute the Salm from Amboina, the following goods:

• 1,617 picol of sandalwood
• Wax
• 354 picol of brown sugar
• Tortoiseshell
• Benzoin
• Red dye
• Pepper
• 103 loads of white rice

The total value was 68,133 guilders. There were still 81 bales of fine sandalwood left behind because of lack of ship space. If the pieces had been cut shorter and sawed through, it would have caused damage. Orders would be given about that wood soon, and they would try to obtain as much as possible directly from the first source.

The Portuguese Francisco Piera passed through from Goa to Macassar and paid back his debt of 8,000 Spanish reals to the Company's satisfaction. This money had been advanced to him to pay for the ship bought from the Genoese. Later he returned with a good quantity of sandalwood that he wanted to deliver to the Company, but this was refused both for other reasons and because the Company still had a reasonable supply. He then sailed on to Maslupatnam.

• First, they would not want to stop trading with the Moluccas, Amboina, Banda, and the surrounding islands, or accept only such conditions as the Dutch would allow them. Otherwise, the Company would suffer more harm and damage than the benefit that could be gained from Makassar.
• Second, the people of Makassar would not want to forbid the people of Malacca and others under Dutch flags from trading freely with Dutch lands.
• Third, they could hardly be brought to stop trading with Malacca and other enemy lands and to conduct their trade only at Batavia or other licensed places. With time and good help, they would eventually be forced to do this, especially if the Dutch kept the waters of Malacca blockaded, cut off their trade to the Moluccas, Amboina, and Banda, kept Chinese junks away from Makassar, and drew all trade to Batavia.

• The ship Jacoter Zeeburgh, manned with 45 sailors and 15 soldiers
• The ship Broeckerhaeven, manned with 45 sailors and 15 soldiers
• Two suitable rowing sloops
• One of the yachts Sonsburgh or Sloterdijck, to be sent a day later, manned with 35 sailors

• 43,916 cans of coconut oil
• 1,200 cans of petroleum
• 11,037½ pieces of beams of various types
• Various types of lumber that had been purchased and were still in storage, including:
  • 2,376 pieces of panjang limas beams
  • 1,681 pieces of panjang tigas beams
  • 225 pieces of glondong beams
  • 200 windbooms (a type of beam)
  • 150 boat knees
  • 75 mill planks of 1 to 1½ decimeter
  • 7,400 cut planks
  • 350 sawn ribs
  • Various types and sizes of planks from Tinkam (2,220 large, 720 medium, 8,849 small)
  • 28,900 Chinese planks
  • 2,760 house planks
  • 9,500 barrel staves
  • 300 planks 18 to 20 feet long
  • Various other timber pieces including swalpens, riemhouten, vellingen, blocks, pike poles, and small house beams

• 5,380 coijangs rice
• 170 coijangs green catjang
• 352 picols cotton yarn in various types
• 5,325 picols indigo
• 37,000 kannen coconut oil
• 800 kannen earth oil
• 9,800 beams in various types
• 3,806 beams above the contingent with an increase of 50 percent above the set prices
• 1 pantjallang beam

• 3,493 2/3 coijangs rice
• 120 3/8 coijangs catjang
• 138 picols cotton yarn
• 6,916 kannen coconut oil
• 400 kannen earth oil
• 5,237 1/2 beams in various types

• 5,380 coijangs rice
• 170 coijangs catjang
• 376 picols cotton yarn
• 78 picols indigo
• 37,000 kannen coconut oil
• 800 kannen earth oil
• 9,800 beams in various types
• 1 pantjallang beam

• 8,373 2/3 coijangs rice
• 290 3/8 coijangs catjang
• 514 2/5 picols cotton yarn
• 78 picols indigo
• 43,916 kannen (the text ends here)

• 200 pieces of large Tinkam planks
• 200 pieces of Panjanglimas
• 200 pieces of Moolen planks of 1 inch
• 100 pieces of ¾ inch planks
• 100 pieces of Tanjong beams
• 50 pieces of joists of 2 to 3 inches
• 10 pieces of beams, 28 to 30 feet long and 10 inches thick

• On 11 January, the officials had sent a letter to the Governor General and Council.
• Between 3 January and 14 January, they received several letters from His Excellency Willem Arnold Alting, Governor General, and the Council of Dutch India.
• The officials were satisfied with the quick loading and dispatching of ships that had collected products from Java in the previous year and returned to the main settlement.
• They were pleased with the placement of enough Javanese sailors on these ships from time to time.
• They promised to continue this practice according to the High Excellency's wishes.
• They planned to encourage some Javanese sailors to sail to Ceylon, as had happened the previous year with the ships Bothland and Overduin.
• They expected similar success with ships that would be sent to collect rice for that government, with a departure date of 22 February 1783.
• The example of good treatment by captain Meijer of the ship Overduin would encourage some sailors to volunteer.
• His Excellency was also pleased with the shipment from Grissee to the main settlement of 9,122 cans of coconut oil on a rented boat.
• Officials in Surabaya would be informed and ordered to make use of such opportunities as much as possible.
• According to reports from the Surabaya officials, the ships Azia and De Vriendschap had undertaken the journey from the eastern corner to Banda on 16 January and 21 January respectively.
• These ships transported from Samarang, Surabaya, and Grissee the following cash, products, and goods: the Azia carried 3,500 ducatons, 400 bags of rice, 3 bags of salt, 400 cans of peanut oil, 2,000 cans of coconut oil, 500 pounds of tamarind, 100 pieces of small planks from Tinkam, 50 pieces of winch beams, 50 pieces of house beams, 2,000 barrel planks, 100 pairs of shoes, 70 pieces of Javanese sole leather, and 150 pieces of mill planks of 2 inches thick; the De Vriendschap carried 3,500 ducatons, 300 bags of rice, 3 bags of salt, 400 cans of peanut oil, 2,000 cans of coconut oil, 500 pounds of tamarind, and 225 pieces of various goods.

• On 15 February 1778 in Samarang, Klotz and Dragoon Bout were given two native attendants, and a report would follow soon containing the truth.
• A letter was written by Johannes Robbert van der Burgh, governor and director of Java's North-East coast, to the chief merchant and First Resident at Djocpo Carta Jan Matthijs van Rhijn, dated Samarang 23 January 1778.
• The letter referred to an earlier letter from 19 January and stated that the sending of the sultan's court people and trusted persons to the Regent of Grobogan to get information about Pangerang Rongo would have as little effect as all previous promises.
• This Regent, with or without knowledge of his court, was the very person who hid Pangerang Rongo and supported him with his followers, and would not lack new inventions to delay and mislead the messengers and meanwhile hide Rongo and his people so they would not find him where they were brought to search for him.
• Because it was beyond dispute that Pangerang Rongo with his sons and other followers stayed on the sultan's territory and was hidden and maintained by the Regent of Grobogan, the writer forbade further missions together with messengers from the sultan or the ruler.
• Instead, the enclosed copy of the latest letter to the sultan regarding newly received reports about Rongo and others, being 2 copies of Javanese letters and a report (with Dutch translations included), should be presented to the ruler as further proof that the fugitives found shelter under him and were maintained, and delivery should be demanded further.
• The writer regretted his discussions and considerations about Pangerang Rongo had to be seen. Upon delivering letters from Their High Nobilities, he had fulfilled his task regarding the mentioned fugitive by presenting it to the ruler in terms of emphasis and clearly explained the orders, and required the effect of His Highness's placed orders to apprehend Pangerang Rongo according to the intention, with a letter to the ruler of which a copy was enclosed.
• However uncertain the reports from there were considered, the more the writer tried to make the ruler and ministers honor the incoming ones, but as long as His Highness and his ministers remained convinced.
• An extract of a separate letter was written by chief merchant and first Resident at Djokjo Carta Jan Matthijs van Rhijn to Johannes Robbert van der Burgh, governor and director of Java's North-East coast, dated 27 January 1770 (location Samarang 15 February 1778 regarding Pangerang).

On 15 February 1778 in Samarang, a report was sent with attached letters containing information about pangerang Rongo and where he had last stayed in the Grobogangsche area. However, because it was certain that people were hiding him and supporting him, and they were moving him from place to place from time to time, the authorities were advised not to focus on one forest or village. They were especially warned not to send pointless missions to such places, as these were seen as excuses to win time and hide him somewhere else. Instead, they should generally insist that since Rongo and his followers were on the Sultan's territory (no matter where exactly), he should be captured and returned to the Company, from which he had secretly deserted.

An extract from a separate letter was included, written by the chief merchant and first resident at Djoejo Carta, Jan Matthijs van Rhijn, to Iohannes Robbert van der Burgh, Governor and Director of Java's northeast coast, dated 18 January 1778.

The administrator Danoeridja received requests that pangerang Rongo, who was being hidden in the Grobogangsche district by the Sultan's regent there, should be searched for, taken into custody, and delivered by His Highness to the Company. The prince decided to send messengers from his palace staff, while also including a trusted person to find out whether pangerang Rongo was indeed staying in Grobogangsche, as had been reported in copies of reports and letters. A Javanese-speaking corporal named Klots was then assigned to this task.

Johannes Robbert van der Burgh, Governor and Director of Java's Northeast coast, wrote to the merchant and first Resident at Djoedjocarta, Jan Matthijs van Rhijn, on 9 January 1778. He found the statements of the Regent of Grobogan, Radeen Tommongong Sasra Nagarra, and the report of the messengers Bappa Ratti and others about pangerang Rongo and his sons not believable but suspicious. The report only contained what the Regent claimed and what the messengers had heard from his trusted people, without investigating themselves or going to the forest Partappan and the village Dawan to get information from pangerang Rongo in person.

Van der Burgh believed that after receiving the letter from the Demak Regents and the report of the Demang Ongowidjoijo and others, which stated that pangerang Rongo and his people were hiding in the Grobogan village Pagadangang, Van Rhijn should make further requests to capture and hand over this wanderer with his sons to the Company. If the ministers did not listen, he should approach the ruler directly with reliable reports. He should make clear that if there were more excuses or refusals, they would think the Mataram court had bad intentions with pangerang Rongo, and necessary measures would have to be taken. Van der Burgh was certain that pangerang Rongo would not find support from the Surakarta court and that pangerang Aria Amidjoijo would not dare to advise him. The rumors that Radeen Soemo Judo had joined Rongo gave more harmful suspicion towards the Mataram court than towards pangerang Aria Amidjoijo, because this Radeen belonged to Djogocarta and not to Surakarta, according to what was said there.

In a separate letter dated 12 January 1778, the merchant and first Resident at Djogocarta, Jan Matthijs van Rhijn, wrote to Governor and Director Johannes Robbert van der Burgh about the remarks regarding the report about pangerang Rongo.