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TILLC.O. 882

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Parliamentary Papers, 1850;

p. 22, No.

Parliamentary Papers, 1850;

p. 137.

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Motion made and question put, "That the Resolution

of the 18th April be rescinded.”

It was resolved in the affirmative.

And as these proceedings sustained none of the allegations mentioned, no further reference was made to them. Mr. Stewart Wortley, the late Judge-Advocate, was present on both the days

referred to.

The Deputy Queen's Advocate thus officially reports upon the proceedings of the courts-martial in Kandy:-

With reference to the courts-martial in Kandy, having Iciated as deputy judge-advocate on the four first triala, I am abled to speak of the manner in which the pro- oeedings in them were conducted. The evidence in each was fully taken down; the prisoners had every opportunity given them of cross-examining the witnesses, and had every facility afforded them of making their defence. The trials usually oecupied several hours, and no unseemly haste was manifested in getting through them. In one of the cases, that against Porang Appoo, the active part he was known to have taken in the rebellion was not proved, and I intimated my opinion that it would be proper to have such evidence. But the court did not consider it necessary under the other circumstances established.

With regard to the trial of the priest, the mode of conducting it, the evidence given, the opinions of parties who were in court, there is very remark- able testimony.

Statement made by the Rev. 8. O. Glenie as to the satis- factory manner in which the trial of the Priest was con- ducted. Mr. Glenie was personally present.

My dear Lord,

I have at variom times heard so muioh nonsense talked concerning the trial of the priest who was shot ut Kandy, and seen so much misrepresentation (ware I to my un- truth I should not use too strong a berun) in print, on the same subject, that I cannot but believe that certain parties, for their own purposes, are bent upon getting up a aRDE without the slightest referenss to what did really occur. As I was a resident in Xandy at the time, and was in the court from the comasanaamant to the conclusim of the trial, and as the evidenes of one competent from his adus- cation and parzulis to form on opinion, may deserve slight attention, I sesiune de addrear you those four Muse detailing the impasasion made on my mind at the time.

Having never had an opportunity of, witnessing a court- martial's proseedings in cases other than paraly military, and having been desirous of observing its mode af tud

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