PAINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE PEBRUARY 184. —
Appendix No. 5 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.
Memorandum of former Insurrectionary Attempts in Ceylon.
CEYLON.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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.
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Duration
of Rebel-
lion ..
From beginning The rising in
The
this year was put down by
of September 1817, to 2nd November
1818.
•
Number of troops
employed
The
greatest
number
of
Troops killed
+
troops in the
Kandyan
provinces at
any time was 6,130,
According to the Returns and
including
those who
died of thoir
wounds
94
Troops died in Hospital. According
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 also no rising sp- pears to have taken place.
did not take place, the con- spirators being arrested be fore the com-
pletion of their plans.
29th July to 10th October was the dura- Lion of martial law, but
the
rebellion was really over in a weak or ten
commence-
days from its
ment, - viz., by the end of the first woek of August.
The number of troops in the
interior pro- vinces on 14th August was 1,627.
None killed and
one wounded
according to
the oficial
returns, but
the DOWS-
papers men-
tion killed.
two
in
Troops were
healthy general.
to excite the
insurrection
was sentenced
to imprison-
18 Court-Martial.
28 Court-
Martial
17 Supreme
Court,
ment for four- 45 Total.
Leen years
with hard
to
the Returns
+
which are not
very regular
428
Punishments of Rebels
Executed.
28
2
5
The prisoners
were acquitted.
Banished or trans-
ported
25
13
8
The prisoners The man who
were acquitted.
endeavoured
labour,
The prisoners
were acquitted.
No expense incurred apparently on these intermediate
occasions.
GG Court-Martial.
Probably under £60,000; this
is conjectural however, the
Otherwise
punished, (imprisonment, lash, &c.)..
8
14
Expense
£177.675 10.
whole to be
paid by the colony.
Martial law was continued in some of the provinces till 3rd January, 1821, but the insurrection was virtually ended by the capture of the principal chiefs concerned in it and of the holy relic, on November 2, 1818.
Major Forbes states 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 sun at which the Governor, Sir R. Brownrigg, estimated the expense. [93.]