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Tidings also came from Nigombo that permission to gather 

 [cinnamon] in the King's territory had reached the gravets. 



Notwithstanding these favourable appearances, deceitful 

 conspiracies were still set on foot by the chief ministers at 

 Court, and their creatures continued to incite the people. 

 This caused the Governor to write to the King requesting 

 that the four chief conspirators should be given up to him, and 

 that satisfaction should be given for the conduct of the rebel 

 Alangakon, and for the damage caused to the Company by the 

 evacuation of Attenegale, and the carrying away of the 

 Koerwe Modliaar, and other abuses, asking at the same time 

 for permission to gather cinnamon and transport elephants. 



No answer was received to that letter, but the Ambassadors 

 returned the following year, 1737, and reported that His 

 Imperial Majesty emphatically declared his ignorance of the 

 occurrences in the lowlands, and that neither the King nor his 

 courtiers were at all mixed up in them. 



It was considered to be to the advantage of the Company to 

 proclaim this official declaration publicly, so as to warn the 

 people not to give any credence to the false tales circulated 

 by the rebels. 



The inhabitants of the Hina, Happitigam, and Alutkoer 

 Corles, however, prevented the publication of the proclama- 

 tion, alleging that they first required an intimation from the 

 Court that those three Corles would be restored to the 

 Company. 



In order to quell this small remnant of the malcontents, 

 some troops were sent in to the Alutkoer Corle, with the result 

 that the chiefs of the rebels sought safety in the King's 

 territory, and the rest remained quiet, the said chiefs 

 being outlawed. 



At the end of the year everything assumed a quiet 

 appearance, the Court also showed a friendly disposition; and 

 in the following year, 1738, when an Ambassador was 

 despatched with a valuable present to Candia, he met with a 

 cordial reception, and was admitted to an audience, notwith- 

 standing the King's illness. 



