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CONFIDENTIAL.

CEYLON.

Appendix No. 5 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.

Attempts in Ceylon. Memorandum of former Insurrectionary

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.

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Duration

of Rebel-

lion ..

From beginning The rising in

The

this year was

put down by

of September 1817, to 2nd November

1818.

•

Number of troops

employed

The

greatest

number

of

Troops killed

+

troops in the

Kandyan

provinces at

any time was 6,130,

According to the Returns and

including

those who

died of thoir

wounds

94

the local an- 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 also no rising sp- pears to have

did not take place, the con- spirators being arrested be

fore the com-

pletion of their plans.

taken place.

29th July to 10th October was the dura- Lion of martial law, but

the

rebellion was really over in a week or ten

days from its

ment, - viz., by the end of the first woek of August.

commence-

The number of troops in the

interior pro- vinces on 14th August was 1,827.

None killed and

one wounded

according to

the oficial

returns, but

the DOWS-

papers men-

tion

killed.

two

Troops died in Hospital. According

to

the Returns

Troops were

healthy general.

in

+

which are not

very regular

428

Punishments of Rebels

Executed.

28

2

5

The prisoners

were acquitted.

18 Court-Martial.

Banished or trans-

ported

25

13

8

The prisoners The man who

28 Court-

were acquitted.

endeavoured

to excite the

insurrection

was sentenced

to imprison-

Martial

17 Supreme

Court,

ment for four- 45 Total.

Leen years

with hard labour,

however, the

whole to be

paid by the colony.

The prisoners

were acquitted.

No expense incurred apparently on these intermediate

occasions.

GG Court-Martial.

Probably

under £60,000; this

is conjectural

Otherwise

punished, (imprisonment, lash, &c.)..

8

14

Expense

£177.675 10.

Martial law was continued in some of the provinces till 3rd January, 1821, but the insurrection was virtually ended by the capture of the principal chiefs concerned in it and of the holy relic, on November 2, 1818.

Major l'orbes states 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 sura at which the Governor, Sir R. Brownrigg, estimated the expense. [93.]