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The Comrnanclaut and all the Officers of the Gar- 
rison, with most of the Civilions, were upon the 
grounci, and almost all the ladies of CoJombo graced 
the ceremony with their presence. 
It is several months since a corps of 100 Natives 
were embodied, trained, and sent into the interior; 
Li'^ntenant-Colone! Cother, Lieutenant Colonel Hook, 
and some other officers, spoke so favourably of their 
iDehaviour, that His Excellency the Governor was 
induoeit to order a similar levy upon a more ex- 
tensive scale. Six native officers, muhandirams, 22 
sergeants, aratjes ; 38 corporals, canganis ; .545 pri- 
vates, ascoryns, have been in training for fourteen 
days, and their progi'e'^s has been so rapid, that two 
muhandirams eight aratjes, fourteen canganis, and 
200 lascoryns marched this morning for the interior. 
The whole of this corps consists of volunteers raised 
with great expedition by De;ine. whose official duties 
as Collector of Colombo have been much increased 
by the Kandyan Rebellion, and who in this and 
every other extraordinary service incidental to the 
war, has exerted himself with a zeal and energy 
that deserve the warmest acknowledgments from 
Government.— JJ/ormmg' Post, January 8th, 1819. 
[This seems to show that the Sinhalese made 
good soldiers.— Ed. L.R.] 
CJBYLON. 
" CEYI.0N GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' — JULY 4. 
Prom Badnlla accounts have been received to the 
2.8rd ultimo, and we are sorry to learn that some 
more casualties have occurred in that neigbourhood. 
On the 16th ultimo, while the Hon. Company's 18th 
Native Infantry were halting at Jr'assara for re- 
freshment, Lieut Wilkinson sent into Badulla a small 
party to announce their arrival. This partv consisted 
of six Europeans, six Malays and esix CafEres. They 
bad not been used to go quite to Badulla, but to meet 
the escort half-way, and so were not aware of there 
being, within two miles of Badulla, a patch of jungle, 
which was a favourite lurking-place of the rebels. 
When they approached this spot a heavy fire was 
opened upon them by the Kandians from their 
ambuscade close by, and two fine soldiers of the 
73rd Regiment, James Sutherland and William Chan- 
dler, were unfortunately killed upon the spot. The 
gallant conduct of the rest of the party well deserves 
pnblio notice and approbation. They were resolved 
not to abandon their comrades even in death, nor to 
suffer their bodies to be insulted by a barbr.rous enemy. 
Lance-corpornl M'Laughan, with another European, 
and four native soldiers, volunteered to fight their 
way to Badulla, where they might procure assistance. 
The remaining two European? and eight native? 
formed themselves into a circle round the dead 
bodies, which they had previously removed to a spot 
of open ground ; while the corporal and his companions 
made their way good to Badulla, followed and con- 
stantly fired at by numerous rebels. The determined 
band posted round the bodies was assailed for up- 
wards of two hours by strong parties of Kandians, 
who urged on by their chiefs from the hills, for they 
always keep at a distance themselves, advanced 
within 1.50 or 200 yards, and poured in voiieys :£ 
musketry. 3?he cool intrepidity of the soldiers .a* 
shown in the judicions reserve of their fire, for • aey 
never returned more th:in two ihots at a time, v.hich 
were sufficient to keep oflf the dastardly enemy, until 
Lieut Burns, with a detachment drove them all int^) the 
jungle, and the bodies were brought off and interred 
m Badnlla. 
A Kandian servant of one of the headmen, with 
the Pretender, came in lately to Badnlla and gave, 
on the 22nd ultimo, some curious information 
respecting the movements and situations:- of the 
Fretender, and Keppitipola, and their chief foUowe'-e, 
whom he left on the 16th ultimo, between Douatjo- 
kappola and Materratta, probabiv in the very place 
observed a week aft< r by ColonelKellv. He confirms 
'"^account of ileppitipola's Buffering from dvsentery • 
and adds that little hope was entertained <i his' 
recovery ; he was so weak as to be unable to walk. 
states that the Pretender is not a Malabar or 
any relation to the Royal Familv, but as mauy others 
have asserted, a Sinhalese of the Seven Korles who 
had been a priest. 
Nothing of any consequence has occurred lately in 
Ssaffragam, or the Seven Korles. The last accounlt 
from Lieutenant-Colonel Hook were dated the 30th 
ultimo. He had taken two rebels, who were imme- 
diately to be tried before a Conrt-Martial, 
July 11th.— By this morning's post we hear from 
Kandy that a numerous meeting of the rebels took place 
at Hanguranketty on the 5th instant, when it was re- 
solved to make a grand attack on the post of God»- 
moone. On the 7th and 8th this design was pnt 
into execution in a true Kandian style. The Pre- 
tender, Keppitipola, and several other chieftaine, 
took their position on a hill about two miles off, and 
about 5,000 rebels made the assault premeditated. 
Ihey began each day about noon and continued till 
near midnight, bat their tire was at ench a distance 
that not a single man in Godamoone was hurt, nor 
IS it thought that many of the assailants inffere'd in 
their dastardly attempt. 
We are sorry to announce an accident which has 
befallen Leintenant Emslie, of the 83rd Regiment. 
On the morning of the 2nd instant, when this officer 
was returning with a party to his post at Gampola, 
information was brought to him by a Kandian that 
the path in front was obstructed by elephants. Having 
halted his party, with a soldier's firelock in his hand 
he advanced alone, and on turning an angle of the 
road, he suddenly came in contact with fotir elephants 
at the largest of which he fired. In an instant Mr 
Ernslie was knocked down, and under the enraged 
animal. In this terrible situation he only recollec- 
ted the appearance of the brute's preparing, ats it 
were, to destroy him, and hearing the report of 
a musket, which was fortunately fired by a man 
who had followed him. Mr Emslie was found by his 
party lying among some ferns by the road side, 
almost insensible, extremely bruised, and unable to 
move, having received severe contusions on the 
face, chest, and left thigh. Without loss of timf; 
he was carried to Kandy, and we are happy 
to say sanguine hopes are entertained of ~hiB 
recovery. 
