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Duke, in the House of Peers, between the Viscomte de la Garonna 

 and the Marquis de Carrabas, with whom he continued to sit, vote 

 and take snuff, till 1830. 



These circumstances being 1 within the Government Agent's 

 own knowledge he having during his Parisian career, been fre- 

 quently invited by the duke to iC couper son mouton" with His 

 Grace, the Petitioner will admit that it would be anything but 

 graceful on his (the Government Agent's) part, to degrade his 

 former friend from his rank and titles, on the Petitioner's bare, 

 dictum, as he would be doing, by implication, were he to recom- 

 mend the Petitioner's prayer, to be created a Mohandiram, to His 

 Excellency the Governor, on the strength of his being the true, 

 authentic, and genuine Duke. 



Perhaps the Petitioner's best course under the somewhat, 

 dubious light which now encircles his pretensions, would be, to 

 throw up his situation of Police Vidahn at Cattaloowa, lay in a 

 stock of a few white Jackets, a couple of Comboys, and a spare 

 comb, and start in an outrigger dhoney for France, via the Red 

 Sea, and having reached his (de jure) native land, lay claim at 

 once to his ancestral halls, his coronet and his arrears of pay ; 

 in respect of each of which the Government Agent has only to 

 ejaculate the fervent hope, that he wishes the Petitioner may 

 get it." 



No. III. 



A Letter from Holland giving an account of the siege of 

 Vienna in 1683. 

 A letter despatched from the"city of Amsterdam in Holland, 

 dated 8th day of the first quarter of the moon in the month of 

 Wap, in the year of Saka 1605 (a.d. 1683) was received here and 

 translated into Sinhalese. 



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