The Sun.
London, England, 1804-12-10 00:00:00

CffYLON GAZEI7E, Ann tB, 1804..

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ON. Saturday last His. Excellency the. Govern( r
arrived it St. Sebestiin's from keppo. His Ex.
cellency's arrival was announced by a ailute of 19
guns from the Fort. ,
Intelligence has. been received frnm Batticaloa,
_that on the 27,th ult., a large body of the Enemy, eon.
sisting of 1 r r Malays, .to gun 1...4car3. t 8 Caffitear
and. more than 3,009 .armed.Candianat entered that
province and_sdvanced to Naypatemone.
of
Lieut. ARTUUR JOHNSTON, Commandantthe
fort, went out immediately to meet them with part
of the Garrison ; but they would not wait his arrival,
and fled with piecipitation beyond their own limits,
not having.time to commit, any essential deptcda.
tions in our country. -
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Thirty.six of the above-mentioned Malays, and
six Bengal Lascars, who were of the number of those
taken at Candy, came over to, us, and represented"the
whole Candian country in a state of great Misery
and 'terror. .
This .misery and terror have been greatly in.
creased, and all pteparations made by the Cantlian
novertinent for a general invasion of these pro.
vince, completely frustrated, by the spirited incur.
sions lately made into their own tetrittitieS;7--
Lieutenant PultDON,..commandin4 ar.Pntlatn, enter.
'ed the Candian Country
,near his Garrison on the
,l+th ultimo, and surprised a great quantity, of grain
and cattle ; the latter of which,' and a great part
if the former, be was able to bring down in aalety
;to Putlarn, and entirely destroyed the rcroaioder.
Capt. ILACKHAt.Lt Commandant of M.:gumbo,
=and Mr. CAMPBELL, Agent 'of the ißevenue a;
.Chilott, entered the Seven Cones, by consent, near
:their tespective stations on- the 15th ult. and having
-joined near Deotiara, where the principal' magazines
were etillated, proceeded to H wiftam, and thence
'..returned by a.mbidenia. to. Negninho, where they
arrived on the cosh, having destroyed all :the grain
which had been collaled in that populous anti fertile
country, to the, computed amount of 869,000
parrahs,'without one casualty, not w ithstauding the
extreme badness of ,the roads, and the contnmed but
concealed fire of the Enemy fiom the jungles.
Soon after the rOtlctl of Capt. HMCKHALL to
Nr g mb:), tt die C.:Afree
wasisent with a small Detachment i,'nn that Gar-
rison, to complete the wutk of destrudion more im.
mediately in the vicinage tifotir Fr,ntiers which he
, executed with the greatest aetivitv and success.
On the Toth nit. Capt. ANDREW NI AC PH ERsON,
of the .Madrits Volunteers, entered the Canslosn PO.
vin;e of .Saffregam, from Nambepane, and Lieut.
Rossi, of, the Mal.tys, the Province of the tour
from Arisavella, and met near Alavalta, on
the 19th, having completely destroyed all the pro.
visions which were collated, and desolated the
whole of the country which lies--on our Frontiers,
between the rivers of.Columbo and CAI tUtd.

The first Adigoar had about the same time pro.
amid with a very considerable Force frntn Balttog-
tretiere"to Catonna, in the intention of frtv,Kl'ng the
Province of Manna, but retreated precipitately on
the appto4ch of Capt. MADGE, ComunindAnt of the
Garrison of Matura, who passing the Cundian limits,
laid waste the whole, Colonna Corte, and returned to
his station on the 10111 inst.
Much as we lament the destruelive mode of war.
fare which the conduCt of our cruel and perfidious
Enemy has rendered neceisary, 'We cannot but re.
juice at the succf.sa which has attended our efforts
far our pre,ervation and their annoyance ; and we
trust; that the' inereased healthiness 'of the season,
which we expect after the, violence of the present
Monsoon. is nbAlEki, will, 'under She blessing of Provi-
dence, enable us to convince, by still more striking
ex,imples, the .wretched subjects of the present
usurped and tyrinoicil Government in Candy, that
its 'weakness is fully equal to `its,, authority.