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Hereunder appeareth the order communicated to Your Honour, 

 the Resident-General at Batavia, mighty in wisdom, ever faithful, ever 

 sure. 



The terms of the Treaty drawn up by the Governor on the occasion 

 when Envoys were despatched to Colombo to negotiate a peace (for as 

 much as both parties had suffered various losses and disadvantages 

 during several years, owing to the rupture of the friendly relations 

 which had long subsisted between the Kandyan Court and the Company) 

 having been approved, and the then existing complications having 

 been settled, peace now prevails. 



The Envoys who are coming are sentto acquaint you with the nature 

 of the several terms of the said Treaty. From the persons who are 

 coming be pleased to ascertain the particulars, and write and inform 

 us as to the proper action to be taken at the present juncture. 

 The close friendship which has existed between the Court and the 

 Company will continue to prevail as long as the sun and moon endure. 



The order upon which this royal message was despatched from 

 Senkhandasaila Sriwardhanapura on this day, Thursday, the 11th day 

 of the dark half of the month Medindina, in the year Weya, which is 

 the 1688th of the Saka era — the same order is confirmed by His 

 Imperial Majesty Ki'rti Sri Raja Sinha, the lord of the illustrious 

 Lanka. 



Know all men [by these presents] : — The great, powerful, and 

 illustrious States-General of the Free United Provinces of Holland, 

 and the illustrious, powerful Company of Hollanders in the East, on 

 the one part, and His Imperial Majesty Kirti Sri Raja Sinha, the illus- 

 trious, powerful Emperor of Lanka, and the leading very honourable 

 Members of the Chief Council of Ministers of the Kandyan Court on 

 the other part, have agreed together to bring to a close the warfare 



* Copied from the original in the Dutch Records, Colombo. — B., Hon. See. 



