Star.
London, England, 1815-08-04 00:00:00

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We are happy to state that, before leaving Town,
the Marquis of ANGLICSXAPS stump was so nearly
healed, that Mr. MANN, of /3radford, has been or-
dered to prepare an artificial limb immediately.
Sir Jasms MCnetant, the Director General of
the Medical Board, is now inspecting, a second time,
the Hospitals on the coast which have been prepared
for the reception of the wounded from Flanders.

All accounts concur in stating, that the wounded,
Orlicers and men, iii the great Hospital stations of
and Ostend. continue to recover very ra.
0,11% . Svveral very interesting operations have been
s. rmed.
In addition to the Medical Staff of the Army in
'
nanders, Dr. JOHN THOMSON. Professdr of Military
::orrery at Edinburgh ; Messrs. CHA RLE3 BELL and
iwv, of London ; and Mr. Gummi, late Deputy
Inspector of Hospitals,have been employed in the in-
vestigation of gun shot wounds, and in giving their
Assistance to the wounded Officers and men.—Dr.
MiLAGAx, Physician to the Forces ; and Staff Sur-
geon HUCHEs, have been appointed to attend sick and
tcounded Officers in London.

Deputy Inspector of Hospitals gun, has been ap-
pointed to the Halifax Station:
We are happy to learn that Mr. WEIR, the late
Director General, is much recovered irons his late
severe paral) tic attack.
Several of the wounded from Waterloo have ar-
rived at Chelsea, in Hospital waggons; About one
hundred and fifty of those who had not lost limbs
walled through the Park for the same place, a few
days since, in high spirits, though every man had a
bandage or some sign of hut t.
The South Gloucester Militia and the Worcester
Regiment of Militia, are to be quartered at Bristol,
whither they will march nest week.
The Stafford Militia is to march this day and to.
morrow in Derby, in order to relieve the Cambridge
going to Yarmouth.
The 49th and 97th Regiments of Foot are ordered ,
from Gosport, the former to Weymouth, and the lat-
ter to Ireland.

The 2d Battalion of the 53d, at Portsmouth, is or.
dered to embark for foreign service.
The 6th Dragoon Guards is ordered from Ireland
to North Britain ; and the 85th Foot is to proceed
from Chatham to Hyttie.
The recruiting parties of the East Kent Militia have
been so successful, that be regiment wants but about
70 men to complete the establishment ; of course, no
ballot will be necessary, as the small defiCiency of
number will soon be made up by recruiting:
SCOTCH GRETs.—Having in our Paper of the 27th
tilt. expressed a desire to know the name of the Ser-
jeant of the Scotch Greys who took the Eagle from
tL• French at.the late glorious battle of Waterloo,
we have seceived a letter from Romford, informing
Is that his name is CJIARLES EWART ; that he is e
roire of Ayr:bite. in Scotland, and has served in the
)krgiment for 2S years. Our Correspondent also
rats, that before he took the Eagle, he cut down the
Officer who carried it, and likewise two men that
be :s a good swordsman, and has always been ac-
counted so in the Regiment.
the DAIL" gesgram-af-Pwrof the Or*teens of the Perth:mart
EstablAstanant at the °artisan at Gibraltar, and as West-b-
-aba, oohed by a teem regulation, viz.
GISRA&TAR.
per Day.
it 17 11
0 19 0

per Day.
Town Major Jo 4 0
Surgeon Major 0 14 .3
Ezra Surgeon 0 14 3
Two Auist.ssrgeona 0 5
Provost Marshall 0 3 in
Single Man. 0 1 0
Turnkey 0 1 0
Doren
Fort Adjutant 111111110.
rack Master, emit 0 $ 10
Tobago—Surgeon O 14
Fort Adjutant and ay.
rack Matte, each 0 3 10
Hoses GUARDS, Juror *6.
At a General CourtiMartial, held at Gibraltar on the t ath isf
February, 1815, and continued by adjournments to the ted of
the same month, Lieutenant James Maclean, of the ed Battalion
el the 11th Foot was arraigned on the following charges, viz.
For challenging Bolin Cross to fight a dad at the Mess-
ream of the Ilth regiment, In Gibraltar.
scl, For conduct highly unbecoming the character of an Meer
and a Gentleman, by being in the habit of quarrelling with the
°Seers of the said regiment, and thereby disturbing the bar.
molly of his corps-.bodt charges being prejudicial to good order
and military discipline, and contrary to the Articles of War.
Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision,
after having esamined the evidence produced on behalf of 'the
prosecution, as well as the defence made by the prisoner-4a
Le, Lieutenant James Maclean, was Guilty of both charges,
It being a breach of the Articles of War, sentenced him to be
Cashiered. Which sentence his Royal Highness the Fames
Rennet has been premed to approve and coi,thin; and the
Commander In Chief has there*, directed, that the foregoing
mar=es, preferred against Lieutenant James Madsen, of the $ll
Jattalion Ittb Foot, together with the finding and sentence of
the Cow, shall be 'Dared into tbe General Wail Soaks, and
1314 at the bead of every regiment in his Majesty's service.
(Signed) H. Carrsar.

Governor
Lint. Governor

Sec. to the Governor 0 I 0.
Dep. Judge Adv( rate
and Commissary of
Musters 0 0 I'
town Adjutsut 0 it II

Will'

Jamaica—Major of
Brigade Lb 0 6
Surgeon • 3* I
Green:la—Stneen 014 S
Fort Adjutant and Ear-
rack Master, each 0 $ 10

0 34 2

About six Prussian soldiers were billeted in one
.house in the vicinity of St. Cloud. The owner of one
.1 them writes, "thank GOD I have got rid of my tron-
hlestme lodgers. My six inmates drank EEC riot less
than 20 bottles of wine a day of one sort or another,
and yet I wonder at it, for I had prepared a mixture
at least one half vinegar, which few men would have
managed, but these Prussians I and have iron lailatert
that will relish any thing I"
On the 4th ultimo, an expedition left Genoa, eon.
sistiag of 4000 British, under General Lowe. It,
was expected, in the first instance, they would kin
the Royalists at Marseilles, and then proceed against
Toulon, if that place had not already declared for
the King. General 14twaner, with &JOU men, had
(mired at Leghorn front Hapiell and would then
Proceed towards GOMA by land. This small army
was there to wait for 'further orders.
Late accounts from Barcelona state, that the Spa
lish army of Catalonia, commanded by General
Castanos, ifter having crossed the Pyrennees, has en-
tered Roussillon I it is said to have at this moment
reached the gates of Perpignan.
The Thirty Thousand Prize, drawn on TUESDAY
LAST, was Sold in Thirteen Shares at Wasa's Office,
no Ludgate Hill—this is the Swoon Prize of Thirty
Thousand Pounds that has been Sold there in the hut
Ara maids. Indeed the extraordinary run of LUCK
that has attended his Office in all the late Lotteries,
would warrant the supposition that Fortune was de-
termined to dhpanae bar Favours dirougle the agency
of Wtall aloae.

LO DON GiakT
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TilUithbAY, AUGUST 3, JBl5.

COLONIAL. DEPARTMENT.
DOWNING•iiTitkET, At/GUST 2, IS)S.
A Diniateh, of which the following i. a copy, was this day re.
ceived from Lieurenant•Genn ral SI it. itsmsrct tan, K. B. dated
Kandy, 11.5 th February, I al s, &likened in Bari BATHURST. ONO
of MI Majesty's Principal Secretaries or tftates
Hri:isb Head.quart et*, Kandy, Feb. 2S, ISIS.
MY Loan—For some days subsequent to the date
of the list dispatch. which I had the honour to ad-
dress to your' Lordship, on Kandian affairs, dated
16th January, no circumstance occurred of sufficient
consequence to be reprted to your Lordship, the
several divisions of the invading force being partly
in movement, and partly preparing to move.
It wis found, however, that great and apparently
insurmountable difficulties would occur in provision-
;lig the trorps, on so many routes, with our scanty
means of conveyance, and I determined in conse-
quence on a modification of the plan. This altera-
tion consisted chiefly in disposing the march of the
tmops in such a manner, that the Ist and 2d divi-
sions, the 3d and 4th, the 6th and 7th, should arrive
on the same line, and, at certain convenient points,
unite together; an arrangement which, I am happy
to say, brought the supplying of the army within
pur means, and laid the ground-work of a successful
progress towards the. several assigned places of de-
stination above the hills.

On the Ist of February I learnt, by a letter of the.
30th of January from M.tjor Hook, that the Ist divi-
sion, under the command of that officer, had reached
Ganeteynni. situate at the foot of the Balani Moan-,
tains, and on the greaeroad leading through the Pass
or Gravet of that name, towards the city of Kandy. ,
Lieutenant O'Connell, with the 2d division, was
close in the rear. advancing to the same point, from
which Major Hook was then to diverge to the left
towards Weywode, in the Seven Kmles, to co-
operate with Captain De Bussche, already in that
quarter with a small force, formed to supply the
absence of the auxiliary corps oriFinally expected
from Madras. No serious opposition was made to
the advance of these divisions. •

The first Adikar of the King of Kandy. by name
Molligodde, brother to the Desssve of the Three
Korles, who had previously come over to the British
territory, and himself Dessave of the Fous Korlee,
kept hovering in front of Major Hook's march, with
some followers, but had intimated, both to Major
Hook and Mr. D'Oyley, that he was desirous to
join the British standard, and was only prevented
from doing so, by his apprehension for the fate of '
his family, who were under the King's power in the
capital, but whoseliberation or escape he expected
as soon as the troops should advance sufficiently near
to Kandy, to induce the King to retire from that
place: he further gave it to be under Good, that al-
though he was obliged to keep up the appearance of
6ring, he would do no harm ; and in all these points,
although his assurances could not in prudence he
fully confided in at the time, he afterwards faithfully
kept his word. In the evening of this day, Feb. I,
I left Colombo to join the army, and proceeded by
the route of Avi.sahavelle (usually called Siaa-
wakka) and through the Three and Four Kories, to-
wards Colonel O'Connell's camp, at Gansteenni.
Willie at Kooroonagodde, on the Sd of February,
a letter from the Lieutenant-Colonel, dated at Ga-
neteyniti, on the 244 informed, that the advance of
that divkicn, under Major Moffatt, of the Ist Cey-
lon regiment, having been detached to support a
patrnle which was conceived to be in danger, had
advanced so near the fortified post which commands
the Balani Pass, that it was deemed advisable: to At-
tack it; and it had been carried, after slight opposition.
At Attypittya, on the. 4th, I received M..jnr
Hook's report, dated from perigaimme the pre-
ceding day, apprizing me that he had taken posses-.
sion of that strong position and the neighbouring hill
fort of Galgederali, with hardly any resistance, or loss.
On the tith I reached Ganiteynne, where it became
necessary to halt fcr some days, to give time for the
concentration of the divisions advancing from Trin-
comalee and the east side of the Kandian territory.
Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell was encamped here,
and Major Moffatt posted at Ameneopoora, one mile
and a half beyond the Pass, and a free communica-
tionoptn between the two corps.

Here the Adikar Molligodde, by. a message
through Mr. D'Oyley, requested permission to sure
render himself with the banners and records of the
four Kurles, of which be is Drssave, having received
intimation of the escape of his family from Kandy.
My consent being signified to him, he, on the Bth
February, came into camp in itate, attended by a
number of Chiefs of the four 'curies, who had not
previously appeared, and formally gave up the in-
signia and records of his Dessave into the hands nt
Mr. D'Oyley, whom i had divined as Commis-
sioner on the part of the British Government to con•
fer with him.

Learning by reports from Major Kelly, command-
ing the 9d division, and proceeding through the pro-
vince of Saffragam and Ourah towards the lodide-.
sinha Pass, that lie could be sufficiently advanced to
support a forward movement on the part of Lieute-
nant-Colonel O'Connell and Major Hook's divisions,
I on the 10th directed Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell
to ascend the Pass and occupy Major Moffatt's posi-
tion, sending his detachment a little in advance; and
-on the evening of the same day 1 joined the camp at
Amenoopoora.
The Adikar Cheylapola, who had followed my
'progress as far as Ganeteynni, proposed to take a dif-
ferent route from thence : and being furnished with
an escort of about fifty men, proceeded up the moun-
tains by a road to the right, leading into the province
of Oudinoora, the inhabitants of which he was desi-
rous to communicate with.

Late in the evening of the 13th, a report was
brought to. Mr. D'Oyley, that a division of the Bri-
tish troops, supposed to be that commanded by Major
Hook, had reached Kattugastotte, a terry of the great
river called Mithavilliganga about three miles dis-
tant from Kandy; that the ir.ing had quitted the ca-
pital, and that the defences at Gonarooha, another
terry of the same river, about an equal distance from
the city, were abandoned.
A parole sent forward during the night, under the
command of Major Browutigg, reached Gon.trooha
early in the morning, and, fording the river, ascer-
tained the truth of the intelligence in all its parts.—
Baum ies of peat extent were erected here, reaching
from the common place of crossing for a considerable
distance along the opposite bank, and commanding

I •
OW ford ; hitt were entirely deatiinte of either men or
'Runs- Hideous objects a the King% resetunr.n,
here presehted themseliei, in the remains of the pot r
wretches stock up on poles on both Sides of the river.
the seten of which were in full view at the ferry, ansi
whole number counted id that neighbourhood was 19
Major Klatt, with the advance of the 2kl divi.
slot!, being a few miles in front of the general en-
campment; was, by Major Brownrigg, on his return
with the patrole, directed to proceed forward to Go-
naroold; in consequence of niy ureters to that effect.
On learning the foregoing particulars, I on the Ilth
dispatched Major Willett/tan, Deputy Q tarter•Mas-
ter.General, towards Kandy, with instructions to pre-
vent the possibility of injury to persons or property,
by prohibiting the entry of the troops within the gates
of the city, htherwise than as guards, under such dis-
position as Major Willerman might judge advisable.
Mr. D'Oyley, who had accompanied the patrole
the preceding evening, and remained at Gonarooha
until joined by Major Motfatt's detachment, with
which, before the arrival of Major Willerman, he
had advanced to the city, which was found entirely
deserted of iith ibitants, and stripped of all property.
—Empty chests, baskets, and mots, were the only
things found, except some few articles of furniture,
not portable enough,nor cf sosii:ient value to be
removed.

The detachment encamped without the gate.
On the It'th, in the morning, I left the position at
Antttnoospuvr:► with Lientenant•C.)lonel O'Connell's
division, which I caused to halt at a convenient place
on the hither side of the river, proceeding myself to
the King's granary between Gonarnoha and the town,
where I passed the night, and on the following day
entered Kandy with my personal suite, and tiled my
(paters in the Palace.

In the mean time, I had learnt by reports from
Major Hook, that he had been induced to advance in
prosecution of a plan formed with Capt. de &niche,
who with his detachment had ascended the Jaltoewre
Gravel, and was in communication with the first di.
vision, at a short distance to the left.
Information which those Officers had received,
rendered it probable that the King was about To.
and that the only remaining hope of securing him
was.by a rapid and secret movement of those twocorps.
I was apprised by Major Kelly, that he had, after
a faint resistance by the enemy, possessed himself of
the batteries command ng the Idalgasinha Pass, and
ascended the mountains.

A subsequent letter of the 13th announced the fur-
ther progress of this division as far as IH-iturate, and
by one dated in the afternoon of the same day, at
Maugala Dobbada Ganeure, one day's m4rch from
Hangeraukette, received by me on the 14th; soon
after reaching the Palace, I was informed of Major
Kelly hiving seized ( together with a great deal of
treasure) a number of women and children whom he
considered to be of the King's family ; tint this idea
was afterwards found erroneous, though several of the
women proved to hi related and allied to persons 01
the King's retinue. The treasure is reported to con.
sin of silver coins of different descriptions, household
implements, and ornaments of silver, to the weight of
about 100Ulbs.

No report had been received of Major Mackay's
approach, with the sth division, from Trincomalee,
but L calculated with confidence that he must be with-
in two or three days march.
I had learnt by reports from Major-General Jack-
son, that nqtwithstanding the most zealous and
anxious exertions on his part, the move:win of the
tith division had been retarded much beyond the ap.
pninte.t time, by unavoidable and insurmountable dii.
ticulties in the means of carriage, and conceiving that
the strength and disposition of the troops already in
the field would prove sufficient to accomplish the ob-
jects of the campaign, I addressed General Jackson
on the 15th instant, countermanding the march of the
f.ith division, and the return of any portion of it that
might be on the march.

It resulted from this situation of the troops, that
the King, who was known to be in the Dessavany of
Dombeta, with a small number of adherents, was so
environed as to renter his escape extremely difficult,
and it he did not succeed in getting through the pass
leading to his last place of tulut4e, the mountains of
Captain Andersen, of the 19th regiment,
commanding the 7th division from Batticaloa, would
arrive at that point, with every probability of inter-
cepting him.
I now made a claim on the Adikar Eheylapola,
for the performance of his promise to raise the
peiple of these provinces, so as to prevent the. King's
escape, and to ascertain the precise plactof his re-
treat, to which a detachment might be sent to make
him prisoner..

Tills task the Add= undertook with alacrity and
confidence, offering to proceed to Dombera in per-
eon : dispositions were made for the proposed put%
pose, by preparing 'a detachment to accompany the
Adikar, and alispatching another .to form w chain of
military communication withetiajor Kelly's force at
Haugeraukette.
Every thing .being thus prepared, the Adikar set
out for Dombera, on the 16th, preceded by the de-
tachment wider the command of Lieutenant Mylins,
of the Ist Ceylon regiment, and accompanied by Mr.
D'Oyley, who, on his arrival at Hakkeytugala, in
flee forenoon of the same day, found the detachment
already there, and learnt that they had taller* in with
a party of the King's people, and, after a sharp re-
biSLilliCe. but withoutloss on our side, had killed three
and wounded one, an captured a number of persons,
two of whom were near relations of the King, and
men of leading consequence, and alieust aU were re-
lated or allied to him.
This account, dated the 16:b, reached me on the
17th, and the same day the prisoners were sent in :
when conferred with, they claimed n hit etrneStness
their connection with the East India Company's
Government. . The principal man, by name Mutal
Sawney, made a meat of having ieceived prevents
and marks of distinction front the Gentlemen in All
thurity under the Presidency of M ideas. I3r ink
asked as to the Ring's hiding-I,lace, and the for c,.
along with him, he said, it was several days since I,c
had seen him ; he was then in Domoera ; be could
not say if he continued in the same plate, but it not,
he could only go t Bintenine ; that his Court was in
a great measure dissolved,• aid that there were no
principal Sir Jars or Chiefs remaining with hum.—
rhese communications were by nu means made in
the tone of a willing informer, but appear to have
been true. The dispersion of the Court we had every
reason in believe, as on that aad on the following

• .
lay,. several Nayators (avthey are called), or relit.
ions of the King, Sinvendered themS.vlves
In so far dso as regarded the King's pliCe or re,-:
treat, the Account of the prisoner agreed . With the-
daily reports received from Mr. D'Oyley, who rt-pro-.
stinted him to be still iti Dombera, but did not ven-
ture to flatter himself Of me that he could wee sl in
At once cutting him off from escaping to the mono-
tains. His letter of the 18th stated, that the King
had fled from his last known place of halting, and
that the inhabitants of two villages had appeired,
and pri.trused to co-operate in seArchin,t for him,.
The latest report that Mr. I)'Oylcy could' then com-
municate was, that the King was concealed in a forest
About a league and a half frcm Fildinya, and he had
sent a detachment to endeav-ur to ini.tcept
On the 19th in the morning, Iliad the sit:daction
to know, by a letter from Mr. D'Oyley of the same
date, that the King was in our hands; he had been
surrounded the preceding evening in the precincts of
Medda Maha Nuwera (the plaice from whence be
was reported to have fled) by the re ••)1.?
tit ll.trn-
bera, in conjunction with, some armed' Kandyans.
sent by Elieylapula Adikar, and taken prisoner, with
two of his w.ves, iii the liothe 4, f an Aratchy (a sub-
ordinate fic-rtiiii.an) at a place called
about a rule beyond bledda Maha Nuwera. His
two remaining wives and his motii-r were known to
be at Hanweylle, a short distance off, and b..ing sent
tor, with conveyance.; :it'd an escort, were brought to
Fil,liny .h.
I have since learnt. that the few bI ,labar attend inn
r.nnair.i.ig wits the Kiog, made i•ort..? resistance, and
wounded one of the assailants, r n which the party
retired a few pAces, and iirtd tip‘ii the braise; that
the King then came cut and delivered himself up. It
further appear!, that t.is prisoners b. rand him and rt—
riled him, and, I fear, plundered him of some arti.
ties of value.

As no regular troops or tiny British Officer was
present, it was impos.ible tog ye full relief; such of
'the deaths as could be recovered wet.? returned. The
Adikar claims, and with seeming justice, conaiderir,;
the sentiments he must entertain towards the King,
some merit in havinig, by strict orders, saved his lilt ;
and great probability arises from what did pass, that
nothing less than high authority could have induced
them to spare him. In another view, this is 4.ne of
the twiny facts which concur to shew, that the feelings
of the penpie towards him (exemplified in this his
favourite province) to be, when divested of the terrors
of tyrannical power, no other than those of hatred
and contempt.

• Besides the property taken by 14.1.ij, r Kelly, further
captures, to a considerable amount, hive been m
and information has b«•n received of many places
where more treasure is hid.

In a military view, the resistance, and consequently
the danger, has been comparatively trifling, but
would be the highen injustice to estimate, by the in-
adequate opportunities which have presented them-
selves, what might have been achieved if the occa-
sion heel called tbrth the full exertions of the troops.
Of fati,i4ue and hardship of weitther, they have had
consist. table trials, the road; being indescribably
rugged, with frequent interruptions both of m ,un-
Lain ael morass, and every difficulty that marching
can pos'isly admit. These, however, with the dis.
piriting addition of frequent rain, only served to dis-
play then arciutr, which no obstacles, no discourage-
ments could subdue. But that for which I hold my-
self ptincipally indebted to the army which I have
had the honour and gold f triune to command in this
undertaking is, their orderly behaviour, and abstain-
ing from all acts of plunder, violence, and irregu-
-1 ray. They have in coi,sequc nee been every where
ceived by the Chiefs and inhabitar:s with unfeigned
welcome, assisted with, sulipli s and means of car-
riage, and their camps frequented by all classes of the
natives, with extraordinary freedom and familiarity.
Your Lordship will readily perceive the happy
tendency of this kind of behaviour, in encouraging
ind propagating that confidence, on the part of the
inhabitants of these provinces, in the justice and nib.
deration of his Majesty's Government,' and the pro-
tection of bis arms, which served to invite and attach
them to the cause in which they were engaged, and
led, under PHOVIDUNCE, to a conquest, the attempting
,
of which has in former instances pr,ved so fatal, as
Ito leave terrific lessons of caution and forbearance to
future invaders ; an enterprise which. I have no
hesitation in saying, could not, with any common
prudence, have been entered upon, except with the
most credible assurances of the concurring wishes of
the Chiefs and people, nor could ever have been
brought to a successful issue without their acquies-
cence and aid.

The army has enjoyed in a very surprising degree
the blessings of health. Our returns of sick are u►nch
below the number which migat be expected in the
same force, stationed in any of the garrisons of the
colony."
I am now occupied in returning to their former
stations such pans of the troops as will not be re•
quired to remain for the maintenance of the British
government in the interior.
I am not yet prepared to present to your Lord.
ship any connected view of the complicated and
important considerations, of a politii al and civil
nature. which arise out of this great change s these
I shall therefore reserve for a separate dispatch,
and conciude the pr sent with soliciting your Lord-
ship to do me the honour of presenting to hi;
Royal Hightii ss the Priace Regent, the expression of
my humble congratulations in being enabled, by the
speedy and happy issue of a campiogn, ending with
the unparalleled good fortune of not losing a single
life, to tender for his Jtoyal Highness's acceptance,
the duties ot a new and industrious hardy* race of
p ople, and the pcssession ot a territory, bountifully
endowed with na:tiral gifts, and requiring only the
blessings of a just government, and an equitable ad.
ministration of justice, and the indulgent care and
countenance of a humane and gracious Prince.
I consider the circumstances which have taken
place to be of so much national interest and import-
Anne, as to warrant my entrusting them to the cam
ot a confidential Staff Officer. My son, Major
rwurigg, Deputy Adjutant General to this army,
will therefore hue the honour tit delivering this .its.
'patch, and as he as a perfect knowledge of :.11 the
occurrences of our short campaign, he is erahled to
afford such fulmination as your Lordship may he
pie.•s dto reclaim of :iim.

lie mill be charged woth the banner ar standard of
KAndy, to b. Itid, with my mobt te•pecttiti duty, at
the ttet of his Royal Highossatits Vilna* &soot.