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treat with any greater consideration the courtiers whom His 

 Majesty appointed to accompany him on his return journey. 

 These he insulted and abused, calling them scoundrels and 

 rascals, and their priest, or tangataar> who was also in the 

 company, he mocked and mimicked in the most irreverent 

 manner. Not content with all this, he rushed after one of the 

 coraals and some of the other chiefs, brandishing a cane, with 

 which he threatened to flog and chastise them. The first 

 intimation which the Governor and Council at Colombo re- 

 ceived of these doings was from an ola dispatched by the 

 Interpreter Mudaliyar, Don Paulo Dias Gunaretna, who ac- 

 companied the Embassy. The Council, full of concern as to 

 the result which these rash proceedings of their accredited 

 ambassador would have on the friendly relations then subsist- 

 ing between the Court and the Dutch Government, decided 

 to place de Bevere under arrest as soon as he should arrive at 

 the capital, and also to forward to the Kandyan Court an ola 

 dispatch tendering apologies. In the meantime de Bevere 

 was deprived of his seat in Council and of his local command 

 in the army, while it was decided to dispatch him to Batavia 

 by the vessel then read} 7 to sail , so that he might be dealt with 

 for his conduct by the Supreme Government of India. Of the 

 further history of Captain de Bevere the Ceylon records are, 

 of course, silent. 



Of Governor Loten's personal history very little beyond 

 what has been stated could be gathered from the records. His 

 residence in the Island was limited to five years, and the 

 diaries for these years are unfortunately missing, while the 

 Resolutions of the Political Council deal for the most part 

 with purely official matters. With reference to Loten's son- 

 in-law, Dirk Will em van der Bruggen, it may be mentioned 

 that he not only accompanied the Governor to Ceylon in the 

 Giesenburg, but served in Ceylon for about four years. On 

 the same day that Governor Loten's letters patent were read 

 in Council and he assumed the Government (30th September 

 1752), van der Bruggen was introduced to the Political Council 

 and took his seat as a member of it. At the next meeting of 

 Council, 9th October 1752, he submitted an application for a 

 passage in the homeward-bound vessel for his son, Jacob 



