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he was permitted to reside, deprived of nothing but his personal liberty; on the satne night & similar attempt was made to seize Pelima Palawe, Dessave of the province of Seven Korles, but by the help of his uncle, the Second Adegar, this chief escaped and was received with open arms by Madugalle, the principal representive of the Pretender. His uncle, however, was carried a prisoner to Colombo for having aidedhis escape.
In Suffragam, the Seven Korles, Yatenoora, and Oudanoora, the rebellion made but little progress, but in the other districts the insurgents were so far successful that Matale was aban- doned. Major Delater who had advanced with 100 men from Trincomalee to Nallande in that district, retreating with the garrison of that post into the Seven Korles, after having destroyed his ammunition and the Governor contemplated the concentration of all his detachments in Ouvah, when on the 22nd March part of the expected aid from India arrived. At the same time Sir B. Brownrigg issued a proclamation declaring the low origin of the pretender (he was a Kandian of the name of Wilbawe, and had been a Buddhist priest), and offering large rewards for the appre- hension of the rebel leaders. At this time also he introduced into the well-affected provinces of Suffragam and the Seven Korles certain changes in the system of government which he had deter- mined upon, and which tended to subvert the influence of the chiefs, in obedience to whom,
and even contrary to their own inclinations, the
people had engaged in this insurrection.”
In a despatch of July 24, No. 298, the 298. July 24.
Governor complains greatly of the delay which had occurred in the transmission of the auxiliary force from India, declaring that this delay had deranged his plans much, that disease had appeared in the interval among the troops, and had proved a more destructive foe than the natives. Between April and July 400 fighting men had fallen by it, and on 8th May it had become necessary to evacuate the district of Binlenne.
In Ouvah however the insurrection at this time began to languish, partly owing to the detection of a chief named Millawe in a corre-
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spondence with Madugalle and his banishment from the island. The capture of another, named Kohukumla, who in the endeavour to seduce some of the Malay soldiers was taken prisoner
by a party of twenty-five in the middle of his followers, of whom thirty-three were, alain, and the distress which the inhabitants now began to feel from the destruction of their corn-fielda, con- tributed to the same result.
To restore the courage of his fellowas Kappi- tipola (the late Dessave of Ourab) determined to inaugurate the pretender with every emremény for- marly in use on such occasions, as King, which was accordingly done with great pomp on the 1st of May. This coronation and the public exhibition of the sacred relic (a tooth of Buddha), wbiol, ma was afterwards discovered, had been stolen frown:Kandy, and to the possessor of which, as the Kamdians imagine, the sovereignty of the island ise together: with the sickness which, as mentioned, began to prevail among the troops, had, to a certain extent the effect he desired ; und from the increase of this disonas/maatinen-boyth to, marɑme a very dark sapest, when Koppitipola with the army he had raised-was surprised-on the 20th of July in a position in which fighting was unavoidable, and defeated with soms. tex..: His followen ware completely « «ckinge and he himself was only sawed from supture by a precipitate and solitary flight♫) he inst
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