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Major Davy's massacre.

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rise. He said so great were the numbers he relied on, that he unfortunately despised the small British force under Captain Lillie at Warriapole, and being already batween it and Kandy he abstained from turning back, confident that it would be cut to pieces by his own followers, but on hearing of its victory and his own defent, instead of purening his way to Kandy, he turned off west across the country

to, Kormegalla,, where he arrived: in time to load the second attack on that town.

This attack on Kandy must seem to us a raah and impracticable measure, but when questioned, sa to, how they came to adopt so wild a scheme, the prisonem afterwards stated, that having driven the English out of Kandy once befas, in 1805, they did not see why they should not have been able to do.so again.

They allude to the very unfortunate event of the massacre of Major Davy's garrison in 1608. The Fuglinh had than deposed the King of Kandy and rained, a suceonroe to the throne, leaving a British force for his security. The Kandyans returned, sumpsisad the place, overpowered the garrison, and butchered them savagely,, retaining Major Davy prisoner.

Fan tan. years the British submitted to this in- dignity,, and made no attempt to undress them salvos till 1815; when, by the invitation of the Kandyan, chiafs, Sir R. Browzigg sent a fores de Kandy, and acespfad a cession of the country to the British. Cueva.

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