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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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