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JOURNAL 
OF 
THE EMBASSY 
TO THE 
COURT OF CANDY, 
In 1800 . 
GOVERNOR NORTH having determined on sending an 
embassy to the King of Candy, both with an intention to 
keep up a friendly intercourse with that Monarch, and also 
with a view to political objects of importance, General 
Macdowal, the commander in chief of the forces on the 
island, whose well known ability and conciliatory manners 
rendered him every way worthy of being selected on this 
occasion, was appointed to undertake the commission. 
As it was intended that this embassy should be as splendid 
as possible, and should make a strong impression on the 
minds of the Candians, by far exceeding any thing of the 
kind which had hitherto been seen on the island, the Go- 
vernor, previous to its departure from Columbo, sent his 
private secretary, Mr. Boyd, to the borders of our territory 
at Sittivacca, there to meet with the Adi gar and the other 
