The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-05 00:00:00

CEYLON.

Cn1,0151110, OCT. 31, liBlB.—The state of the
interim during the last week exhibits the same
unequivocal symptoms of progressive improve-
ment which have for some time marked the de-
dive of rebellion. -.A number of Mohattaies, and
other l--leadmen, have surrendered, and some Of
thetu men of so much consevence that a little
et idle ago their submission would have been
cult-
eHete►t a most important event. But at pre-
scnt despair of the cause has so generally pos-
sessed the insurgents, that, with the exceptiOn of
the few desperate leaders, their return to obe-
dience is regarded almost as a matter of course,
as well as the giving op their arms, because
they are convinced of that being the only pledge
of their sincerity which will be accepted.
In reviewing the occurrences of, the last tear
days, the most prominent arc the execution. of
Fllepola and die surrender of Andeawello Mohat-
tale. Ellepola.was a man of a shrewd and pene-
trating understanding ; although advanced .in
years, his bodily vigour was little impaired, and
Isis Whole character was enterpri*ing and active.
He had, under, the reign of the deposed King,
filled the office of Adigar, that is to say, one of
th'e highest in the kingdom, which conferred
upon bins, even after he lied ceased to hold the
plaee,the tide of Melia Nileme for his life. When
lie joined the rebels he was appointed by the
Pretender, Dessave of Matelle, and be was clear-
ly to have exercised the powers of that
offi( e i he was therefore most justly selected for
condign pimeihment.
Andeawellc AJoilattale was the most active
leader of the insurrection in Walapartaluq,, and
attiring the early part of the rebellion, our psis
Panella, Wattenioolle, Tibotogoilda, and Ma-
dells were ,often annoyed by him and his„adhe-
rents. The escorts in that :Itne
,of the comitry
were frequently attacked, and the severest loss in
the whole war, that in which Kr. Kennedy, Das-
eenaick MOhandiram, arid ten Ceffres and Malay
soldiers, were all cut off, wes-cffeeted by a nume-
ious body of Kandyans under Andeauelle. He
surrendered to Lieutenant Rayinond tit Medulla
on the 21st inst., and he is now -prisoner with
Captain Cleather, to whotis lie readily gives all
the information in his power, while his numerous
followers are surrendering their arms.
Major Mecdonald -was still encamped upon the
heights above Ilappitarnma ,when his last letters,-
()mid the ,`Mth inst., were received. Groin and
cattle bad been collected in abundance, anti arms.
Were every day brought in ; but the onlytintelli.
gence that could be obtained of the rebel Mohat-
tales frapnitagantina and Kiwulgedera, was that
they wet e-secreted with their tanilies sonieWhere
in the vast -jungle between the two places which
bear their names.
On the 21ii, about nine A.M, Lieutenants
Burns and Stewart reached the jurigle; where they
divided, and soon came upon buildings re-
Cently-oectipied by Happittteamma, his faMily and
.
people: much property a As left behind, and the
Chief him-elf and his' family fled precipitately
iscross the Oorne Ova into Walapattahoy; accom-
panied by only three Nlowers:
-In the louse occupied by Kiwuketiera, an Ola
yea addressed *to'hirn by Happitagerionti,
and we shall give a translation, beeetese it sheWS
in s•roag colours the deplOrablesitnetion to which
the writer conceives himself to he reduced
1' Our country is entered on all sides by the
lish wish large bodies of the people fretn (Nita,
Who will kill us'intl destroy our property. All

the other countries Wye submitted : we must ei=
titer collect our People, and fight the Eng:hilt, or
take poison. iVhatever you do, 1 will follow
your example ; be quick and decide, for we can-
lkot lorig. eSeape being taken by the English."
The i'ri,vince of Walap,lnakoy, heretofore so
obstinate iu rebellion; teems ts, he reduced to
complete submission : Lieutenant Raymond bad
been extremely successful in Ins meritorious exer-
tions at Machina, and Captain Cleather is now es7.l,
t4b,lished at Watteinoole with the command over'
the whole province.
In Dombera,- we learn that the same general
disposition of the people to submit, and the sable
successful activity in apprehending the few petty
Chiefs who yet hold out, still continue.. On the
22d the capture is reported of PetteWelle Lekans,
commouly • called Dessave, by a party of Kan-
dyans, sent out from Ratnbookelly by Captain
Dobbin. `The • two Golegcldcles are also taken
near Kimbolgantotte—one of them was a leading
character among the insurgents of I-lewahetty. •
On the 25th -Lietr.-Colonel Hardy writes from
Puakpitia in Lagalle, that he had received intelli7
genet from Lieut. Irwin, dated Palleagamma, the
day before, of the concealment of Pelime Talawe
and Madugalla in the Jungles, not many miles off :
Lieut. Irwin had ako taken the family of Kira-
pit its Mohattale, who is said to be with Pelime
Tina we.
In Metalle all was perfectly quiet, and Lieut.-
C,,lotiel Kelly writes on the 24th that a box.of
Witte of cacinsidershle value belonging to KappitO-
pOla had been delivered up to Ueut. Fagan.
In the Seven Korks little rethained to be done,
except continuing the chaSe after Pelitne Talave ;
but Lieutenant-Cidoilel Ilook•reports on the 27th
that tnie only two' Mohattales from the Elide Do.
las patio° who had hitherto persisted in rebel-
Von had just surrendered to a small party of 15
firelocks.‘vill George Nadotis ; their names are
the Aroopolly and Floonopolly Mahatitnes.--
Lieutenarit.Coknil Hook ohierves, that the zeal
sail intelligence tlis-played by George Nathnis
place hint high en the list of men of talents;
iiAckhousr, Collector of Nlanar, wrote front
A-narajapoyi-a so long ago as the 12th inst. that
he „hid .pretty well ascertained who the person
Was ‘vit•otin Pelime Talawe had selected as a suc-
cessor .to the Pre'te.mkr arty dephSed by his or;
dens. This freih candidate Jur the,Thrope, or ra-
ther this new ilistrtnient it') the hands of a few
factious chiefs to impose upon ,the credulity of
their countrymen, bakbeen an inhabitant of fLe
district" of Malr,o., but his parents .Had lived in
Nuwera Kalawa, ;indite was of the Waddua or
Rajah Caste. Whoever he may be, be' has for-
tunately fallen into lr. Backhouse's hanici, for
%hat gentleman writes front Aripo- on the 19th inv.
that helad succeeded inapr ehecoling ;be person,
i>y name Vira' Wavoo, Who had heeii oil 'ale point

of 'being brought forward by Pelime Talawe as A
new Pretender. The man himself does not deny
the fact, and he Was ready to make a full disclo-
sure of the whole affair,. :}which Mr. Back house
promises to coMmonicate in :a few days. We be-
lieve tliat every thing had been prepared f'or his
coronation at Anarajahpoota, when the 'sudden
arrival of Captain Fros.,o'..l4urbed the ceremony
and put to flight all the performers.
.The Neyagamma Dessave has been condemned
in Kandy by a Court Martial, and is ordered for
execution this dry. Its
Wellcoille Mohattale, a notorious rebel itr Ouva,
has s,,rrendered to Cap6h4 Cleat her:
On the '27th instant, gllepola Maha Nileme
suffered the senteece of death awarded against
him by a Court Marti4l on the 17th inst... The
judgment was, that, he should be hanged ; but on
his petition, the senie»ce vas commuted to deca-
pitation, the mode of ioffeting capital
.punish-
ment on Kandyau Chiefs tinder the aoctent.Go-
vei nment,althOugh it was then usually preceded by
the most. cruel and lingering tortures. The
prisoner was conveyed, to the place fixed for the
execution, near the Ji ogumbera Tank, outside the
gate leading to Colombo, 'at eight in the morn-
ing,.bythe whole of the troops off duty, com-
manded by Major Bayly, who superintended-this
awful duty ; he conducted himself Witlithe greatest
firinneis, and after the warrant was read in Eng-
lish and Cingalese, knelt doWn, and fixing his
closed hands on the ground; bent his head for-
ward, to receive the fatal stroke, -which was in.-
.fiicted by a man of the cast appropriated for such
executions, with a sharp Mabratta sword. The
first blow cut deep, and deprived the victim of all
sensation, but was oot conclusive ; and the sword
having broke in consecinencei as was discovered
by a flaw on the hack of the blade, rendered the
seveting the bead completely trciin the body a
longer act than was to be desired„during which,
however, only one convulsive movement evinced
life to remain in the body of the prisoner.
The execution was witnessed by a numerous
_concourse of spectators, among whom were ob-
served the Priests of the TCmple on the Hill, near
the Castle ; after the crowd. dislierSed, 'the body
was butied by the orders of irkverninent, the fa-
' wily of the deceased refu•ing to interfere, and
himself having expressed a wish that it should be
lert.a prey to the dOgs, as would have taken place
under the former despotism.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CO'JR'I' OF CHANCERY, Aram 3.

DAYIi HI4 GRACE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH,

THE EARL GP SHApTESBURV, AND ()THERA.

Mr. HaisT MoYed for a relecenee to the Master,
in tavour of Mr. I)4A:is, a'n annuitant. The pre-
sent hill-stated, that all the plaintiff wished wgs,
that the trustees in whom the property was
vested might be at liberty to cut down-such tint-
her as, wotdd pay the arrears of the annuity,
which were very great.
.SirAtiTt3Uß FlGOTT'opposed the motion, .con-
tending that nir mo•ion hail ever been biouglit
forward cn more flimsy-pretexts.
The LORD CHANCELLOR.--" Oppressed as my
mind is with the very awful duty am in a few
minutes to be called to discharge elseNhere, allo,v
R e to beg you will not dal! for my judgment till
some day next week. I have a serious Recor-
der's Report to attend to."—Judgment post-
poned.

KYNASTON V. THS EAST INDIA CoMPANY.

•
Judgment in this ease was postponed till Tues-
day, his Lord.hip- stating that his mind was so
nn'►ch engaged with tt►e awful duty he had to dis-
ch:irge- in the Council, that be could not proceed
to give any judgments. Ile intimated his opinion,
however, to he in favour of the plaintiff, who is
Lay Rector of St. Butolph, Aldgate.—The Court
rose at one o'cicll..

VICE,-CHANCELLOR"A COURT, APRIL 3.

MATHEWS AT HOME.

MATHEWS AND ARNOLD V. DUNCOMBS.

Mr. likusEß m d ovelor an ininnetion to restrain
the defendant, a bookseller in Little queen-,street,
Lincidn's Inn fields, from publishing an enter-
Giinntent called Mathews's Trip to Paris.' He
moved this on the affidavit of Mr; Mathews, which
staled rhat Mr. Arnold was the proprietor of the
En4lisli Opera House, and Mr. Mat,hews had no-
dertaketi tol.perf9rtn, for a numher of seasons,
• •
l'lvcks solely by himself ; that on the Bth of
March, a piece called '.Trip to. Paris,' Nvii per-
formed for the: first time, and met with the
greatest succe*s, and had been repeated :bree times
a week ever since that period ; that the defendant,.
or some person- employed by him, attended the
representation, took it down in short-hand, and
published if in abOok called "r he Critic's Re.
gaflo,' which contained a frontispiece of Mr.
Mathews in one of the characters he had re,pre-
semed, and had given notice that he ,int ended to
publish further extracts from the ' Trip to
,Paris.'
Mr. Barber, in support of the motion, quoted the
case of the farce of Love written
by. Macklin. It appeared be was in the habit of
allowing it
,to be performed for benefits on receiv-
ing a compensatitin, and-the defendant
.pbblished
extracts.from it in The Gentlenian and Ladies
Magazine,' and the Court granted an injunction
to restrain .

The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Take the injunction,
and let it he served instantly on the defendant.

THR SAAR V. DEAN AND MUNDY.

On the motion of Mr. BARBER, a similar in-
junction was obtained against the defendants, who
had published a work_ called The Dramatic
Tourist,' which, though it purported to be taken
in short-hand, was literally a copy of the per-
fOppance of "fire Tiipto Paris.' The grounds
of the injunction were the same, only that the
affidavits of Mr. Mathews and Mr. Reynolds
stated, that Mr. Mathews had given a valuable
consideration for the work.--4njunction granted.

HORn ID BRUTALITY.--A man- came to Mr.
itoattaTs, surgeon. Of Bangor, on Sunday week,
with his face dreadfully lacerated ; it appeat:a he
had been drinking iu a public-house. near Cartier-
von, when some dispute,arising, a monster in the.,
company sciied hold of him, Ind in an instant hit
his nose completely oik, iu the confusion he,made
his 6cape.:

'TOME CIRCUIT.

SIMItEY,LENT ASSIZES.-KINGSTON, Ann. 3.
HATCHETT V. COLEMAN.

This was an action brought against the defen-
dant for ignorance and misconduct as a cow-
-leech, by which he poisoned five cows of -the
plaintiff.
The plaintiff's cows
,had the mange, and the
defendant was emplOireil to cure them. "He ac-
cindingly washed their skins a,nd the diseased
parts with a Certain tnedica:ed wash ; the conse-
quence 'was, that in about a.quarter of an hour
the cows began to show symptoms ,Of great ill 7
tiess—tbey became tremulous, sweated, lay down,
their tongues swelled and lolled out of their
mouths, their eyes were inflamed, their bodies
swelled, and in a very short time they all died.
This effect was supposed to have been occasioned
by corrosive sublimate used in the wash.
The Jury found for the plaintiff.—Damages 60/.
John Howard was indicted' for sacrilegiously
breaking and entering the parish church ot,Strea-
tham, and stealing two bibles and two prayer-
books, the property of the churchwardens and
overseers.of the said parish. The prisoiker, it ap-
peared, was a poor dealer; and hsd converted the
sacred volumes he had stolen into waste paper. 7•-•-
tie was convicted, and received sentence of death.