CONFIDENTIAL.
Eastern
Me v
CEYLON.
Appendix No. 6 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.
Comparative Statistics of the different Insurrections and Insurrec- tionary Attempts which have taken place in Ceylon.
1818.
1823.
1824.
1834.
1843.
1848.
Duration
lion ..
of Rebel-
From beginning The rising in The
of Beptember 1817, to 2nd November 1818.
this year was put down by
•
Number of troops
employed
The
Troops killed
+
the local au- thorities in about a week.
*
attempt The
was made in August, and the prisoners were tried in November.
The prisoners
were taken by
a small de tachment.
rebellion In this case aleo | 29th July to
no rising ap pear to have taken place.
did not take place, the con- spirators being arrested be
fore the com-
pletion of their
plass.
10th October was the dura- tion of martial
law, but the
rebellion wan
really over in a week or tem days from ita
IMEI, — VİK., by the end of the first week of August.
The number of troops in the interior pro viness on 14th
1,817.
Neme kiled and one welended accord the
return, but
the
paper - tion killed.
TWO
greatest
of
Bumber troops in the
Kandyan
provinces at
any time was 6,130.
According to the Returna and
including
those who
died of their
wounds
94
Troops died in Hospital. According
10
+
+
the Returns which are not
very_regular
428
Punishments of Rebels:
Executed..
28
2
5
The prisoners
wars Loquitted.
'Banished or trans-
ported
25
13
8
were noquitted.. endeavoured
Otherwise
punished, (imprisonment, lash, &c.) ..
8
14
Expense
+4177,675 10
Troops
healthy general.
18 Court-Martial.
The prisoners. The man who 98 Court-
to excite the
insurrection
Martial
17 Supreme
to imprisonment
Court.
ment for four-] 45 Total.
with inbour.
bard
The prisoners
No expense incurred apparently on these intermediate
occasions.
66
Court-
Probably under £10,000; this
is conjectural
howajar, the
whole to be
· paid by the pology.
• Martial law was continued in some of the provinces till 3rd January, 1891, but the insurrection was virtually ended by the capture of the principal chiefs conoarned in it and of the holy relic, on November 2, 1818.
† Major Forbes statée in his "Eleven Years in Ceylon," that the total loss on our side was estimated at 1000 and that of the natives at 10,000.
† This is the sum at which the Governor, Sir R. Brownrigg, estimated the axponos.
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