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regret the concessions he had made to the English: Kawarnaa sang p ra bu Mentawis

K a n g djeng Radja ing Ngajogjakarta sampun tetep keratone ...

semu merang sadjroning galih kadnwung ing p r a t i n g ka h ... kang rama binuwang Wlanda

ma r a n g M antja ing K ed u sabrang nagri d jinaluk m ri n g Welanda.^

At the same time the p a t i h appointed by Sepuh was dismissed and R a d e n T e menggung Sumadipura, bupati of D ji pa n was made p a ti h with the title Danuredja XV. It seems that prince Dipanegara played an important part both in the appointing of the new p a t i h and in the a c c e ssion to the throne of his father, Sultan Radja. E u r o p e a n sources agree that

Dipanegara negotiated w i t h the E n g lish resident to have his father placed on the throne, after Sepuh had killed the p a ti h Danuredja II and seemed to threaten his own son, the

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Cro w n P r i n c e s too. In r e t u r n for his assistance to the 1

Canto II, verse 1, a.-c., e . - f . s i.-k.

Let us now describe the king of Mataram, K a n g d j e n g Radja by name, r uling in Jogja, his k i n gd o m was firmly established

but he seemed ashamed in his heart and he regretted h i s actions ...

because his father had been banished by the English and the Mantjan e g a r a lands in Ke d u and other lands were requested by the English.

We should note that Tja k r a n e g a r a fails to dist i n g u i s h between the Dutch and English, always ref e r r i n g to the latter as

*W e l a n d a 12 . i..e„ Dutch« T h is indicates how vague the notions held even by sophisticated Javanese were about things

E u r o p e a n . 2

E n g l i s h and to his f a t h e r D i p a n e g a r a is s u p p o s e d to have b e e n o f f e r e d the p o s i t i o n of C r o w n Prince,, T h i s h o w e v e r he r e f u s e d :

Let us l o o k at the s i t u a t i o n in J o g j a (in e a r l y 1812). T he E n g l i s h w i s h D i p a n e g a r a , in r e t u r n for his s e r v i c e s in the w a r a g a i n s t his

g r a n d f a t h e r Sepuh, to be n a m e d C r o w n P r i n c e , w h il e his f a t h e r R a d j a b e c o m e s Sul t a n « He h e s i t a t e s h o w e v e r b e c a u s e h e d o e s n o t w i s h to u s u r p the m o r a l l y s t r o n g e r c l a i m s of his b r o t h e r D j a r o t ' . 1 T j a k r a n e g a r a c o r r o b o r a t e s the E u r o p e a n s o u rces. i n C a n t o 1 he r e l a t e s how S u l t a n R a d j a o f f e r e d to make 2 D i p a n e g a r a C r o w n P rince, as he had a l r e a d y p r o m i s e d to do^ T h i s p r o m i s e was p r e s u m a b l y m a d e w h e n hi s f a t h e r came to

the t h rone. D i p a n e g a r a r e f u s e d his f a t h e r ’s offer, be c a u s e his b r o t h e r D j a r o t , as the s o n of the c h i e f queen, had a

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s t r o n g e r c l a i m to the throne, T j a k r a n e g a r a also states that D i p a n e g a r a had R a d e n T e m e n g g u n g S u m a d i p u r a a p p o i n t e d as

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D a n u r e d j a IV in 1812. T h u s it seems that D i p a n e g a r a w as in a p o s i t i o n o f c o n s i d e r a b l e i n f l u e n c e in the y e a r s 1 8 1 0 to 1812, and he w a s t h e r e f o r e able to e n s u r e the s u c c e s s i o n o f his f a t h e r and the a p p o i n t m e n t of the p a t i h who wa s to bec o m e his i n v e t e r a t e e n emy in the 1 8 2 0 ’s.

1 P . H n v a n de r K e mp, ’H a m l e t t y p e ’ , o p . cit., p,30 4 . 2 C a n t o I, v e r s e . 18, a.

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D i p a n e g a r a and was i n s t r u m e n t a l in p r o v o k i n g the p r i n c e ’s