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Governor with having written against him to the Government 

 of India, he retorted : " Yes, I wrote concerning you last 

 year to Batavia and also to the fatherland, and I shall do so 

 again. You may be sure I will not lie still;"* and he added, 

 " I have had much greater enemies than you from whom I 

 have escaped, and, mark you, I shall with God's help resist you 

 also and get off free."f On the 26th April 1756 the Council, 

 on the proposition of the Governor, suspended him from office, 

 when he put in the following protest : "I protest against this 

 temporary suspension from office in the most respectful man- 

 ner, chiefly on the ground that I have not yet replied to all the 

 charges brought against me by His Excellency, nor have I 

 been heard thereon. I request also that copies of the written 

 charges brought againslrme may be furnished to me, with all 

 the papers relating thereto placed on the table this day, and 

 that this protest may be duly entered in the proceedings." 

 The matter eventually went before the Council of India, and 

 although I have not been able to trace any record of the fiat 

 pronounced in the case by the Supreme Government of India , 

 there is no doubt that, as a consequence of his spirited conduct, 

 Lebeck was, for several years, superseded by Abraham 

 Samlant as Hoofd Administrateur, and it was only on Anthony 

 Mooyaart's retirement from the Commandeurship of Jaffna- 

 patam in 1767 that he regained the seniority which he ap- 

 pears to have temporarily lost. 



22nd February 1907. H. G. Anthonisz. 



* " Ja, ik heb voorleden jaar over u geschreven na Batavia en ook na 

 't Vaderland, en ik zal liet nu weder doen, u kund verzekerd zyn dat ik 

 niet stil zit." 



f *' Ik heb zoo veel groter vyanden gehad waar van ik my wel 

 verlost. zie, en zal het N. B, door Gods hulp tegens u ook wel houden en 

 my redden." 



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