APPENDIX. 
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VII 
Treaty offered to the Candian Court, by General Macdowall, as 
referred to in page 2,96. 
A TREATY of firm and perpetual Alliance and Friendship, between 
His Britannick Majesty and the Honourable United Company of 
Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, on the one part, 
and the King of Candy and the Nobles of His Court on the other; 
offered on the part of His said Britannick Majesty by His Excel- 
lency Major-General Hay Macdowall, Embassador Extraordinary 
and Commissioner Plenipotentiary to the Court of Candy, in 
virtue of full powers in him for that purpose vested by His Ex- 
cellency the Honourable Frederick North, Governor of Ceylon, kc. 
Article I. His Britannick Majesty and the Honourable Company, 
their heirs and successors, and the King of Candy, his heirs and 
successors, and the Nobles of his Court, mutually agree to a firm 
and perpetual alliance and friendship. 
II. His Britannick Majesty and the Honourable Company re- 
cognize the present King of Candy, and they shall consider all his 
Candian Majesty's enemies to be their enemies. 
III. In order to secure the honour and safety of his Candian 
Majesty, and his successor, his Excellency the Governor of the 
British possessions on Ceylon shall send immediately into his 
Majesty's territories, a detachment of between seven and eight 
hundred men, which force may hereafter be increased, as occasion 
