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PAINTED AT TAX POREIGN OFFICE

FEBRUARY 1849

CONFIDENTIAL.

CONFIDENTIAL.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O.

CEYLON.

Appendix No. 5 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.

CEYLON.

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1816. 169. Nov. 5.

1817.

245. Sept. 25.

248. Nov. 7.

Memorandum of former Insurrec- tionary attempts at Ceylon.

THE first conspiracy of the Kandians after our assumption of the Government of their country in 1815, was discovered in the course of the following year, apparently in a very immature condition. It was set on foot by a Buddhist priest of the name of Ihagama. This man and some others were arrested. Ihagama and a Malay were banished from the island, and a chief named Madugalle having been tried by a jury of chiefs, was sentenced to imprisonment for two years. He was however pardoned towards the end of the year 1817, and was one of the prin- cipal leaders in the rebellion which commenced in that year.

In the beginning of September 1817 an insur- rection broke out in the districts of Wellassee and Ouvah, which was not suppressed till the end of the year 1818, and which proved the most important, if not the only important one of those which have occurred in Ceylon since the interior provinces came into our possession.

Information having been conveyed to the Resident of Badulla, that a person attended by some Buddhist priests, and assuming the title of King of Kandy, had taken up his abode in the jungle of Wellassee, his arrest was ordered; but the messenger dispatched to effect it was himself seized and put to death by the attendants of the pretender.

Mr. Wilson, the Assistant Resident of Ba-

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Appendix No. 4 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.

Memorandum of the recent Financial

Legislation in Ceylon, and of the

events connected therewith.

Government Measures and political