Van Hogendorp was a nineteenth-century Dutch author whose collected essays, Bijdragen (“Contributions”), preserved — in its second edition, volume V, page 236 — one of the principal printed texts of the exchanged notes accompanying the treaty of 17 March 1824. Van der Kemp refers to the work as Van Hogendorp’s Bijdragen.
Cited by Van der Kemp
Van der Kemp cites Van Hogendorp’s Bijdragen in a footnote on page 45 of his article on Raffles’s Acheh agreement of 1819. The note lists the printed sources in which the diplomatic correspondence exchanged between the British and Dutch plenipotentiaries at the time of the 1824 treaty is to be found, “partly with, partly without the treaty of 1824”. Van Hogendorp’s Bijdragen (2nd ed., vol. V, p. 236) stands at the head of a series that includes Elout’s Bijdragen of 1863 (p. 228), E. de Waal’s Nederlandsch-Indië in de Staten-Generaal (vol. I, p. 82), De Sturler’s Grondgebied van Nederlandsch-Indië (p. 344) and J. J. Meinsma’s Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsch Oost-Indische Bezittingen.
The point of the enumeration is to give the reader a key to the documents that, alongside the treaty itself, regulated Anglo-Dutch relations in the archipelago for the half-century that followed. Van Hogendorp’s compilation holds the leading place in the list, suggesting that Van der Kemp regarded it as the earliest and most authoritative printed source of the exchanged notes.
Significance for Acheh studies
The exchanged notes that Van Hogendorp helped to preserve are of central importance for the Acheh question, because they contain the famous Acheh reservation. Under Article 2 of the 1824 treaty Britain undertook not to establish any office on Sumatra or to conclude any treaty with the native princes of that island; the Dutch, in the exchanged notes, promised in turn that this stipulation would not be construed so as to affect the independence of Acheh. It was this reservation that became the legal basis for the long British veto on Dutch expansion over the sultanate — a veto that the Sumatra Treaty of 1871 finally lifted and that Lord Palmerston had famously exploited, “adhering simply to the letter of the treaty of 1824”.
Van Hogendorp’s role in the present article is therefore that of a documentary source. As one of the editors whose compilations Van der Kemp cites, he shares the stage with De Sturler, Levyssohn Norman, Hoek, Netscher and Jeekel — the network of Dutch colonial historians on whose editorial labours Van der Kemp’s own researches were built.
Sources
De geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Korps Mariniers van 1665-1945, OCR text, pp. 81‑82.
See Also
- J. E. de Sturler
- Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London (1824)
- Sumatra Treaty of 1871
- Lord Palmerston
- P. H. van der Kemp
- Van Braam (commander)
- Majoor Hamell
- Salangore
- Luitenant Wisscher
- Malakka
Source
Raffles’ Atjeh-overeenkomst van 1819, by P. H. van der Kemp, in Bijdragen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6e Volgr., Deel VII (1900), pp. 159-239. Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit, LS.08781.
Van Hogendorp was a nineteenth-century Dutch author whose collected essays, Bijdragen (“Contributions”), preserved — in its second edition, volume V, page 236 — one of the principal printed texts of the exchanged notes accompanying the treaty of 17 March 1824. Van der Kemp refers to the work as Van Hogendorp’s Bijdragen.
Cited by Van der Kemp
Van der Kemp cites Van Hogendorp’s Bijdragen in a footnote on page 45 of his article on Raffles’s Acheh agreement of 1819. The note lists the printed sources in which the diplomatic correspondence exchanged between the British and Dutch plenipotentiaries at the time of the 1824 treaty is to be found, “partly with, partly without the treaty of 1824”. Van Hogendorp’s Bijdragen (2nd ed., vol. V, p. 236) stands at the head of a series that includes Elout’s Bijdragen of 1863 (p. 228), E. de Waal’s Nederlandsch-Indië in de Staten-Generaal (vol. I, p. 82), De Sturler’s Grondgebied van Nederlandsch-Indië (p. 344) and J. J. Meinsma’s Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsch Oost-Indische Bezittingen.
The point of the enumeration is to give the reader a key to the documents that, alongside the treaty itself, regulated Anglo-Dutch relations in the archipelago for the half-century that followed. Van Hogendorp’s compilation holds the leading place in the list, suggesting that Van der Kemp regarded it as the earliest and most authoritative printed source of the exchanged notes.
Significance for Acheh studies
The exchanged notes that Van Hogendorp helped to preserve are of central importance for the Acheh question, because they contain the famous Acheh reservation. Under Article 2 of the 1824 treaty Britain undertook not to establish any office on Sumatra or to conclude any treaty with the native princes of that island; the Dutch, in the exchanged notes, promised in turn that this stipulation would not be construed so as to affect the independence of Acheh. It was this reservation that became the legal basis for the long British veto on Dutch expansion over the sultanate — a veto that the Sumatra Treaty of 1871 finally lifted and that Lord Palmerston had famously exploited, “adhering simply to the letter of the treaty of 1824”.
Van Hogendorp’s role in the present article is therefore that of a documentary source. As one of the editors whose compilations Van der Kemp cites, he shares the stage with De Sturler, Levyssohn Norman, Hoek, Netscher and Jeekel — the network of Dutch colonial historians on whose editorial labours Van der Kemp’s own researches were built.
See Also
- J. E. de Sturler
- Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London (1824)
- Sumatra Treaty of 1871
- Lord Palmerston
- P. H. van der Kemp
Source
Raffles’ Atjeh-overeenkomst van 1819, by P. H. van der Kemp, in Bijdragen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 6e Volgr., Deel VII (1900), pp. 159-239. Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit, LS.08781.