Sir Frederick Weld was the Governor of Penang who, at the end of 1885, returned from England to his post in the Straits. Verstege — sketching at that date how the revived Atjehnese piracy and the defiant attitude of the “friendly” chiefs around the concentrated line again threatened Dutch relations with England — called the coincidence significant, that at that very moment the Governor of Penang, Sir Frederick Weld, came back from England, while Maxwell, the ombudsman of the Tenom affair who wished the Dutch so ill, was about to move for good from Singapore to Penang, “the nearest point to his Atjehsche friends” and to the remaining members of the Raad van achten (the Atjehsche war council); there, Verstege warned, the new English nobleman could watch the Dutch on the fingers better than anywhere else.
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Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk, door J. J. W. E. Verstege (Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1886), p. 93. OCR-filename: 20260801_235605_DLP-158-Een_beroep_op_het_Nederlandsche_volk_in_zake_het_Atjeh_vraagstuk_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.