Due to the intervention of Sir Stamford Raffles in 1808, the British gave up the plan to destroy it. The building was destroyed during the Dutch invasion. The Netherlands ruled Malacca from 164 1 to 1795, but it was not interested in developing it into a trade center, and its importance as a governance center was replaced by Batavia (Jakarta) in Indonesia.

Malacca was ceded to Britain according to the 1824 Anglo-Dutch Treaty in exchange for Benkelon on Sumatra Island. From 1826 to 1946, Malacca was first ruled by the British East India Company, and later it was a crown colony. Together with Singapore and Penang, it formed a strait colony. After the abolition of the crown colony, Malacca and Penang became part of the Malayan Federation (later Malaysia).