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JOURNAL, R.A.S. (CEYLON). 



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having made liberal offers for the admittance of your troops, what 

 right or argument can you allege, My Lord and Sirs, except your 

 superior force, to summon us to deliver our establishments in the 

 manner you have done by your letter of September 22 last ? 



Respecting the capitulation which the Count de Meuron has entered 

 into with your Government for the Swiss Regiment, we declare he had 

 no power to do it, because he had consigned his regiment permanently 

 to us, as long as the Company might want it, as appears by the 25th 

 Article of the Capitulation, of which a copy is annexed. He says in his 

 letter to his brother the Colonel Commandant, that the Government 

 with whom he capitulated is dissolved, and that therefore he had 

 resolved to withdraw his regiment from the Dutch Army. But the 

 Government is not yet dissolved, as will appear at the conclusion of a 

 General Peace in the Netherlands. In the meantime we are here the 

 representatives of the same, and as such you acknowledge us by your 

 letter of September 22 last. 



But although we are deprived of that part of the regiment which is 

 here, and which consists of five hundred men ; we are, however, not 

 destitute of resources to defend what has been confided to us, and if 

 we are at last crushed by a superior force, we will find sufficient con- 

 solation in the reflection that we have done all that could be expected 

 from loyal officers, who prefer their honour and their duty to every 

 other consideration. 



We have the honour to be, &c, 



J. G. van Angelbeck. 



C. van Angelbeck. 



D. C. von Drieberg. 

 J. Reintous. 



B. L. VAN ZlTTER. 



A. Samlant. 



J. A. YOLLENHOVE. 

 D. D. VAN Ranzow. 

 A. ISSENDORP. 



Colombo, October 13, 1875. T. G. Hofland. 



To the Officer Commanding the British Troops at Tuticorin. 



Sir, — Having made an arrangement with Major Agnew that* five 

 companies of the Swiss Regiment in garrison here should be conveyed 

 from hence to Tuticorin with the sloops La Fidele, the Jonge Villem 

 Arnold, and the Grutaaf, under flags of truce, for which purpose 

 Major Agnew granted three passports, one of which goes now with 

 La Fidele. 



M. Pierre Monneron arrived since here with his vessel, the Alamgum r 

 with a passport and flag of Tipu Sultan, and Colonel de Meuron not 

 knowing any means to convey to Madras the remaining two compa- 



