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having been framed by Captain Dessave De Coste, is specially 

 inserted herein.* 



Endorsement by the late Mr. O'Gradt, Government Agent of 

 Galle, on a Petition presented by one op the Lane- 



rolles, applying for the rank of mohandiram. 

 " The petitioner is to be informed that, without questioning 

 for a moment his being the rightful representative of the ducal 

 house of Lanarole, or Lignerolles, it would be better, perhaps, 

 for the present, to lay less stress upon that matter, and confine 

 his claims to consideration within narrower bounds. Properly- 

 speaking the Petitioner ought to have been guillotined as a 

 ci-devant, any time between the 21st September, 1795, and the 

 25th October, 1795, by the National Convention ; or, at least, 

 shot as a Vendean, by "Westerman or Rossignol. These privi- 

 leges were unquestionably his ; but as instead of asserting them , 

 he preferred vegetating at Cattaloowa, disguised as a Police 

 Headman, and still further denationalized himself by allowing 

 his hair to grow to its full length, and girding his loins with a 

 Comboy, he must not be surprised to hear, that while he was 

 thus losing the numerous opportunities which Monsieur de Ro- 

 bespierre lavished upon his order, of being decapitated, shot, 

 hanged, drowned, sabred, starved, or blown up in the air, a 

 needy and remote scion of his (the Petitioner's) house contrived 

 to survive the ferric and fulminating ordeal which the Petitioner 

 shrunk from encountering, and, on the return of the Bourbons, 

 1814 (while the Petitioner was ingloriously chewing betel at 

 Cattaloowa), claimed to be acknowledged as the sole remaining 

 their of the once powerful house of Lignerolles, and,, being unhe- 

 sitatingly recognized as such by Louis XVIII, took his seat, as 



Here follows a list of eleven gardens valued at an annual rental of 148 Rix 

 dollars or £11 2s., and 36 paddy fields valued at an annual rental of 200 Parahs 

 [150 bushels] of paddy. 



