The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-07 00:00:00

single word to then at planet, bat as the witnesses had
beets reared It was neeenary fee the house to undensand
.tint astute of the lags,r sad ha had hipltatka insole
to Me house, sad be felt sot Ilk goo'
MM M hen. member ger Mattress would boar not the
'Atelemeat hi, was about to autko -he had no basilisks
to desisrlag eat if this lagairy Illettraitirreireil and properly
saris/eat. If the witness. who wale were Weimlit
le this eloothy, ens datrocity would brought to light,
witk which the deeds of Field Marshal Rayons,
iengareeha they had heard so tomb, in Margery, would ep
pear mild aid insvelful. (Hear, hoar.) Is Hungary, no
pellet had bees put to death without
op first gnie b.
feria album'. well seastbsted, and id over by ea
officer of rank, and so Hutton death had bona
serried late estiestitta Is that casstry without having
the apprehades of the eoatssaadevin•shief. Now, lib it
was die saw In Ceylon ? In Ceylon very few
of the moon. put to death were tided before
tribusals legally sad properly eoustitated, Of .11.15.01111
ef the number et gains asgsired by law. Its earn OM ttr
warts mania for lapin' efiaose tongued of Owe slime,
a captain sad two subeheras. No church edema was pre-
sent. Tits Miens were igasisat of the nature of the lam.
and the esstatese el the owls were esnibusi sad
approved of—by whom ?By enplaiss escresanneg eletneb-
menu. (Hear.) In some MIN she prisoaers were led from
the courts to the please of execution, when they suffered
instant death.

Mr. HUMS—Without any o3nfirmation of their m-
imeo. (liar, bin.)

Mr. BAILLIK celled upon the house to compare the two
eases of Ceylon and Hungary. In Hungary, the most for-
midable rebellion In the history of Europe had been brought
to • close after great sacrifice of life, and after tens of thou-
sands of Austrians had perished in the struggle. In Ceylon,
a quarrel had been put down without the loss of life,
or • show of resistance on the part of any one.
Let than contrast the two ants, and then tell
him if he had been guilty of any exaggeration
when be said, that, as compared with the acts of Ceylon,
the proceedings in Hungary were mild and merciful. It
was for than who had been so load Is their denunciations
of the Austrian government to say, whether they were not
liable to the charge of having in their capacity, as members
of the legislature, lug tolerated in silence, acts of
greater atrocity then any perpetrated in Hungary, in the
domiaions of her Majesty. (Mar, hear.) The house had
heard a good deal from the hon. member for the West
Radler of Yorkshire (Mr. C .Mien) of the savage atrocities
of lieldellambal !Jaynes. Bat let them listen to a deal-
ings° be °tyke, and bear in mind that that document
MOO the on of an officer, to whom WS entrusted
the awfo and responsible power of deciding on the life or
death of her Majesty's subjects in Ceylon. The pr.:enacts.
non was as follows :
That union althorn who have held concealed, or knowing to have
held, the effects of Golebella Ratta Whitton*, deliver over to me
each property, or gin Information about the same without delay,
sorb persons shall be killed, and their property confiscated.—A. Ws?.
row, Captain Oommanding.
Now, wee this • proclamation for the destruction of mad
dogs or lemma beings? (Hear, hear.) When it was first
brought under his notice, he confused that he had been
perfectly astonished end incredulous. He did not believe it
possible that such • proclamation could possibly have been
keened . He then thought there must have been some min-
take; but there wee no mistake whatever. He held in his
possession two of the original proclamations, signed by
Capt. Watson's own band. They were !declamations
which bad received the full sanction and approbation of her
Majesty's government; and yet those hon. gentlemen who
so loudly denounced the government of Austria supported
the British government. Lieutenant-Colonel Drought,
a young officer of rank, was at Kandy, when a case
occurred which would show the reckless manner in
which human life had been sacrificed in Ceylon during
these proceedings. Colonel Drought, having nceiv, d in.
formation of the arrest of a prisoner, despatched an officer,
Captain Bird, to Hone/elle. with instructions to
hold a courrinartial. Captain Bird went there,
and the court-martial was held. Captain Bird eat
sa the junior °Aar, the superior officer being pres'nt.
The prisoner was convicted, and the animus was (in order
to mark the sense the court-martial hold of his having set
himself up as a pretender) that he should be shot to death,
and that his body should be hanged on • tree for four days,
The sentence was confirmed, and the prisoner was shot
In half an hour after he was seauneed. Now, mark the
consequence of that. la page ISt of the blue book, Colonel
Drought wrote to Lord Torrington that the prisoner had
been convicted and sentenced to be shot, and hanged on a
tree. Nine days afterwards, the governor wrote to Lord
Grey that the man was not • pretender, and that his elder
brother had been captured, and on the (*Lowing day
tried by court-martial and shot. On the 16th of August,
two days afterwards, the governor wrote that it was • nth.
take to supra not only that the uafortuoate man was a
pretender, but that it was also • mistake that he
was the brother of • pretender, for he said that
the pretended king had not yet been apprehended; that his
brother, who was at fleet believed to have been executed at
Kornegelle, was also still at large, and that the prisoner who
was shot on that occasion was only one of the principal ad-
herents of the impostor ; so that after finding the man wee
not a pretender, or the brother of a pretender, he seemed to
say that that was not the charge on which he was tried, con-
victed, and shut. Here the house had an instants of an un-
fortunate man having been executed by mistake. (Hear,
hear.) But this was not the only mistake which had arisen.
It would be found in the blue-book that foe men had
been executed upon schuss called high treason. One eddies*
four was named Nickel, Itincheralle, and there was evidence
to show that that man was perfectly well at this neconent at
Ceylon; therefore it was perfectly clear that some other
person had been executed for Nickels Rincheralle, and, in-
deed, it had been secertained who the man was that was
executed in his stead. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Refills) did
not wish to detain the house by entering at large into
details, but he had thouhht it his duty to state the nature of
the inquiry, for the house would then
_perceive that it wee
impartible that the hon. member for Montrose or hisserf
could uniertake the further prosecution of this ease if they
had not the witnesses before them who were to prove the

facts. (Hear, hear.) It would be kr ion. member now to
decide whether they would conduct the inquiry fairly and
properly, or have it at ones abandoned. For his own part, it
was to hint a matter of indifference. He had, to the
best of his ability, performed his duty. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) He should be satisfied with whatever
coons the house might think proper to pursue. All be
asked was this—if they were to have an inquiry, at least let
it be a fair one. (Hear, hear.) Let them not compromise
the character of the Muse by a sham inquiry, or by the
taking of es parte evidence. It was for them now to decide
whether they would give their support to the hon. member
for Montrose and him (Mr. Baillte) in their efforts fairly and
properly to carry out this iavestiption, or whether they
would give their support to the ministers of the crown in
their bold and unblushing attempts to DAM* and defeat it.
(Cheers.)
Mr. HAWES briefly justified, against the complaiets
of Mr. Bailie, the writings of the governor, and the
conduct of the administration of British Guiana. Be-
tween 70,0001. and 80,0001. per annum kad been re-
cently wombed in the expenditure of that colony, and
many melioration devised in its constitution. And
now he proceeded to the case of Ceylon, and here he most
protest against the course taken by the hoc. member, which
was marked by hie usual want of imadosr. In the com-
mittee of inquiry the hon. =sabot Weight forward whole-
sale charges agaiM the local geesesaisst. He talked et the
same time about aboaderang Oa bigotry. He bad no doubt
the hon. gentlemen wkbei be abandon the seas. A mon
malicious ore sold aft be hand. The inquiry, as far as go-
verment was eamerwed, &sold go on. It should Ina fair in-
quiry. And wits* would tie louse say whoa he stated that kers
had bon no retool of the witnesses ? And now be would state

to the hotTiiiiestlywhatiiertake place. On Saturday, the
28th of July, 1649, a moths was made In that house that the
Waal:, by a 'sled ememittes should not continue, but that
a essatision shield be appointed to inquire on the spot,
that having bess ended in the committee by the casting
vets of the eitairmaa, sad the muting vote of the chairman
alone. The hoses divided upon that sad rejected the recom-
mendation of the eammitus, sad that was the Insult that the
hors paths= semplained of. Now, was it rejected by go-
'samaras retie ea Sat serails Was there a majority of
seeable@ at the negativing that notion ? ea
far from that, es at the divides lb' he found there
were members osomnested with the mernatent, for the
media, th; agaime di. So that the ledspeadent mem
be of the beams, es east, setsolly "Ned ewe to the against
the ;families of the bus leaden= moil the remoistion of
the emenadelea Dm what passed la the bras es that mat.
mks was vs" iseperlost It was sesentl—esi he wee now
@peados la the mane of the deli besasSiamma the
wombs kr Rlpoa, who Mk port fa that mai of the
Delis ised, ef the lesamey, wise beim*,
Semi= Ma he sated—it woe prepaid to the bosomy the
tint Ma, mammas the mewls- kr Rims thse She sow
*odd "nese es the *nim Haseisemi *said name
the alias= wbem whhedbi to ad. Nis amble friend
behind his la the emotes et the debate said he
tally agreed with what Mao from the right ken. gen-
tians& the lambs for Rip's, that the eammielse should
most sad amiss the mimeses, mad that ii the themes" were
among thsliathasy of State would Odra um is ham them
sammatal. The samaritan did meat Ind did amities
them, sad these Stamm were at this mement is this
es retry wahing for amealastioa. (Hem bear.) Now all
Shim had bees soppremed by the hae gentles.* in his state-
ment. The. was a MIOUOII ethosqueatly made—sad
be woo messiUsgly sorry that he Slowed it to pus
annissielp-4thre was a meths linsinly carried
thimewarde ilia he would reed he the those,
sad this be with* reed to the home the repast of
the orwwiMea The othiethea we, "That thedisinema
ambedwel sod temsai te ammonia* with the fisersesey
of See as to the oesasery whams to be ordered hem to
glee Mime before the entatithe in the sassing sessisa."
And now what was the ropes ? " That mesas Mold be
adethed by the Secretary of State to ensure the atterimes
Was the esesmittee of the Queen's Advomes at Omits of
Hags& Wausau, and of snob others wham mileage Ulf be
seamory to explain sad establish the dommatimmen
coder which saftial law wee ma* posthisted
Ceyloa." Wes there anything is thal mak et wee
there anything is the resolution that he hod reed,
width gave t
. dent
of the amunittee Ste absolute
power, indepsodent of the Secastery el State, cc of the
asimistes, to nosabsase the witaasess ? That wee the Ant
maim be pot, was there lurking that gave him that
pewit ? He thought there was not. Well, but what took
Mee ? And new he same to the point that there was no
Word of witness'. He bed told them that the visions
Mars& by the ecomaittes were here and reedy to be
essmissi. He ad set woad": that that marainatioa was
Ors* fires. On the 28th of November, three months
alias the committee bad broken up, without any
smainsistion with the Sesoftry of State, and upon the
simple itemisation of the hos insaman, he called upon the
Secretary of Slate to order the witnesses home. Now he