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of it; as also by a corporal of the 19th who was left for dead in the massacre, 
but who had found means to escape in the night to fort Macdowal, where he gave 
the intelligence to Captain Madge of the 19th regiment, commanding the post; 
who, having sustained a seige for three days, resolved very judiciously to bring 
off his garrison to Trincomalee, which he has effected notwithstanding the constant fire 
of the Candians upon his small force, until he fell in with a strong detatchment 
of Malays, commanded by Lieutenant Huskison, escorting dooleys to Candy, when 
the Candians fled. 
This and many other proofs of the inability of the Candians to oppose the pro- 
gress of any collected European or Malay force, however inconsiderable, render 
it difficult to account for the embarrassments which could induce the garrison of 
Candy to submit to any infraction of the treaty or capitulation which they had 
made, and to deliver up their arms to the orders of the Adigar, which it appears 
they did ; and, on their return unarmed to Candy, the British soldiers were separated 
from the Malays, and all inhumanly butchered, with the exception of Major Davie, 
Captain Humphreys of the Bengal artillery, and Captain Rumley of the Malay 
corps. 
Captain Blackball of the 51st, with 50 Europeans and 50 Sepoys, was ordered 
to march from Columbo to relieve the small garrison of Dambadinia which had 
been attacked for two days by a numerous body of Candians. This service he per- 
formed with only the loss of one man of the 51st regiment, whose ardour to 
attack some Candians on the opposite side of the Kaymelli river made him attempt 
to swim across, when he was carried away by the stream and drowned. An at- 
rempt was made to surprise the second Adigar, by sending a party in the night 
to the place where he was stationed ; but on our approach he escaped with all 
his people, and fled into the jungle. The huts and bungaloes erected for their ac- 
commodation were burned by our soldiers. 
The following orders by his Excellency the Governor are published to the 
troops serving in Ceylon by his desire. 
Oppressed as the Governor is by grief and indignation at the atrocious act of 
perfidy and cruelty lately committed at Candy, he has sincere satisfaction at no- 
ticing the spirited and successful conduct of the garrisons of fort Macdowal and 
Dambadinia. Tlie Governor requests Captain Ed. Madge of the 19th regiment to 
accept his thanks for his gallant defence of fort Macdowal, and the judicious man- 
ner in which he brought off his garrison. 
He also desires to express to Captain Blackhall of the 51st regiment his per- 
fect approbation of the vigour and activity wdth which he conducted the relief of 
Dambadinia; and to Lieutenant Nixon of the 19th, and Ensigns Grant and Smellie 
of the Malay corps, his high sense of the spirit w'ith which they defended that post, 
under circumstances of extraordinary distress. 
(Signed' 
F. N. 
