APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
requite to be specified ; and one 
single instance, of no distant date, 
will be acknowledged to include 
every thing which is barbarous 
and unprincipled in public rale, 
and to pourtray the last stage of 
individual depravity and wicked- 
ness, theobliterationof every trace 
of conscience, and the complete 
extinction of human feeling. 
In the deplorable fate of the 
wife and children of Eheylapola 
Adikar, these assertions are fully 
substantiated, in which was exhi- 
bited the savage scene of four in- 
fant chiidren, the youngest torn 
from the mother’s breast, cruelly, 
‘butchered, and their heads bruised 
in a mortar by the hands of their 
parent, succeeded by the execution 
of the woman herself, and three 
females more, whose limbs being 
bound, and a heavy stone tied 
round the neck of each, they were 
thrown into a lake and drowned. 
It is sot, however, that under 
anabsolute government, unproved 
suspicioa must usurp the place of 
fair trial, and the fiat of the ruler 
stand instead of the decision of 
justice; it isnot thata rash, violent, 
or unjust decree, or a revolting 
mode of execution, is here brought 
to view, not the innocent suffering 
under the groundless imputation 
of guilt: but a bold contempt of 
every principle of justice, setting 
at nought all known grounds of 
punishment, dispensing with the 
necessity of accusation, and choos- 
ing for its victims helpless females 
uncharged with any offence, and 
infants incapable of a crime. 
Contemplating these atrocities, 
the impossibility of establishing 
with such aman any civilized re- 
lations either of peace or war, 
ceases to be a subject of regret; 
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since his Majesty’s arms, hitherto 
employed in the generous purpose 
of relieving the oppressed, would 
be tarnished and disgraced, by be- 
ing instrumental to the restoration 
of a dominion, exercised in a per- 
petual outrage to every thing which 
is sacred in the constitution or 
functions of a legitimate govern- 
ment. ; 
On these groundshis Excellency 
the Governor has acceded to the 
wishes of the Chiefs and people of 
the Candian provinces, and a Con- 
vention has in consequence been 
held, the result of which the fol- 
lowing public act is destined to 
record and proclaim :— 
PROCLAMATION. 
At a Convention held on the 2nd 
day of March, intheyear of Christ 
1815, and in the Cingalese year, 
1736, at the palace, in the city of 
Candy, between his Excellency 
Lieut.General Robert Brownrigg, 
Governorand Commander in Chief 
in and over the British settlements 
and territories in the island of 
Ceylon, on the one part, and the 
Adikars, Dessaves, and other prin- 
cipal Chiefs of the Candian pro- 
vinces, on behalfof the inhabitants, 
and in the presence of the Mohot- 
tales, Coraals, Vidaans, and other 
subordinate Headmen from the 
several provinces, and of the peo- 
ple then and there assembled, on 
the other part, it is agreed and 
established as follows :— 
Ist. That the crueliies and op- 
pressions of the Malabar Ruler, in 
the arbitrary and unjust infliction 
of bodily tortures and the pains of 
death without trial, and sometimes 
without an accusation, or the pos- 
sibility of acrime, and in the ge- 
neral contempt and contravention 
of all civil rights, have become 
