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was the whole number of those who perished in the field; but the troops suffered more from the fatigue and privation to which they were exposed from the harassing mode of warfare adopted by the natives, and from the disease thereby pro- duced, than from the fire of the enemy. Sir R. Brownrigg, in despatch No. 298 of July 24, declares that between April and July he had lost 400 men by this sickness.

The total number of rank and file in the Kandian provinces on the 31 March was 3,956. On 13 April the number of sick was 501. Between the 13th and the 20th of April 51 died.

On the 24th July the number of rank and file in these provinces was 5,193, of which 1800 were troops of the East India Company. The sick on that day amounted to 881; but according to the returns between 21 April and 20 May, 2,073 had been admitted into the hospital, of whom 61 had died in that time.

Between the 25 of July and the 24 October the troops lost by disease one field-officer, eight subalterns, ten sergeants, two drummers, and two hundred and ninety-six privates.

Eleven years in Major Forbes, author of Ceylon," estimates our total loss in this contest in the field and by sickness at 1000, and that of the Kandians at 10,000. The latter suffered much from the famine which followed the rebel- lion, owing to the destruction of their rice crops and the interruption which the disturbance had proved to agriculture.

The first auxiliary force from India consisted of 2000 troops. At the end of April Sir R. Brownrigg applied for a further aid of 3,360, but with the exception of the flank companies of the 86th regiment, no part of this succour ap- pears to have arrived in time to engage in actual hostilities.

The total force in the maritime provinces on the 24 October, 1818, was 3,081 rank and file, and in the Kandian provinces 6,130; or the force in Ceylon altogether on that day was 9,211 rank and file.

In No. 318, January 1, 1819, Sir R. Brown- rigg calculates that the expenses of the year 1818

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would be found to have exceeded those of 1817 by 232,6751. 10s., which sum, he infers, may be taken as the cost of the rebellion: of this 132,0001. were for the freight, field allowances, &c., of the auxiliary forces from India. From this estimate, however, should be deducted 55,000, as the value of some stores of rice which had been purchased for the use of the troops, and had not been consumed. This de- duction being made, the total expense occasioned by this insurrection, may, according to Sir R. Brownrigg, be reckoned at 177,6751. 10s.

On the 3rd of May, 1823, a rising was attemp- ted by some priests in the province of Matale, but the Government Agent and the Desave of the district succeeded, without assistance from the military, in capturing fifty of the ringleaders, who who were tried before the Judicial Commission- ers and the principal Chiefs in Kandy. Twenty- nine of them were found guilty of treason, and of these, two, who had been active in the rebel- lion of 1818, were hanged on 5th of August; thir- teen were banished for life; three were con- demned to hard labour and imprisonment for five years; two for three years; and five for two years: two were condemned to imprisonment only for two years, and one for six months, and the pretender, who was a low-caste Indian, re- ceived 100 lashes and was imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years. The lands of all were forfeited, but a portion apparently was after- wrads restored.

In the August of the following year another disturbance took place (among the Vedahs), of which the leaders were, a Buddhist priest, two chiefs of Bintenne, and two low-caste natives of the Seven Korles. They collected about 470 fol- lowers, but these were easily dispersed and fifty taken prisoners by a detachment led against them by the Agent of Matale, and which was accompanied by a considerable number of natives. Of the prisoners, thirteen were tried at Kandy, and of these the five principal ones were hanged, and the remainder banished and their property confiscated.

No other disturbance appears to have occur- red, or plot discovered till the year 1834, when

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