This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...An attempt was, about this time, made by General Brownrigg to induce Molligodda, the adikar and prime minister to the king, to abandon his sovereign and to join the allies, namely, the Kandyan rebels and the British invading force, and hopes wore entertained that he would have been won over from his allegiance, several ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...An attempt was, about this time, made by General Brownrigg to induce Molligodda, the adikar and prime minister to the king, to abandon his sovereign and to join the allies, namely, the Kandyan rebels and the British invading force, and hopes wore entertained that he would have been won over from his allegiance, several communications having passed between him and Mr D'Oyley, but the measure did not succeed. While the local government was tampering with Molligodda, and otherwise omployed in fomenting rebellion against the king, information was received during the month of November, that ten cloth-merchants, subjects of the British government, had been seized in the Kandyan country, and punished, by order of the king, according to the severest of the Kandyan secondary punishments, viz., dismemberment and mutilation. Seven of the merchants died on the spot, and the re Vide Ceylon Miscellany, vol. i. pp. 35, 36, "Operations of the British Troops in Ceylon in 1815. By an Officer employed in the Expedition." This journal was probably written by the late Colonel Willerman, Quartermaster-General to the troops in Ceylon. Colonel Willerman was a confidential friend of General Brownrigg, and may be presumed to have been intimately acquainted with the secret policy of his government. maining three reached Colombo alive. This ciroumstance was considered by General Brownrigg as an act of aggression on the part of the King of Kandy, which involved the honour of the British nation. A true account of the cause of the punishment of the merchants was not obtained until several years after the British had taken possession of the country. The travelling merchants, or pedlars, in question, were plundered by some low-caste Kandyans in the Three Corles, a district in the...
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