Petrus Theodorus Chassé

[2][3] Chassé entered the service of the VOC at a young age and made a rapid career.

[4] He became governor of Dutch Celebes at Makassar in 1800, where (after the Peace of Amiens) he proposed to open a free port there to Governor-General Johannes Siberg in 1803, but this suggestion was not followed up, due to the resumption of hostilities between the Batavian Republic and Great Britain in that year.

Under Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels he was made Director-General of the government in Java, and a member of the Council of the Indies.

Afterwards he fulfilled a number of other important missions, which earned him the praise of Commissioner-General Cornelis Theodorus Elout.

[6] He survived the other members of the High Government,[c] Herman Warner Muntinghe, Reinier d'Ozy and Jacob Pieter van Braam, who were appointed at the same time, and retired in 1830.