Washington telegraph., 1849-04-25
Frons Wilson's Nv. " Dispatch.
THE KANDIAN BUTCHERIES.

| IHE KAN DIAN SUICHER1ES.
The details of the following horrible
| events have never before been published d
III full; nor would it scarcely be believed
that such atrocious butcheries could have
been perpetrated i'll any quarter of the
globe at so late period as 1914. But,
coming as il does, from the Dublin Uni
versily Magazine, and from a writer of
such high responsibility as the author OF
"China and the Chinese" we presume its
authenticity should not be doubted.-
Eheylapola, whose family were the vic
tins of Sri Wigkama, king of Handy
was his first adker. or prime minister,
and up to the time when our extract COM
mences, had been entirely devoted to the
| interests of his sovereign; but the king.
| evidently becoming suspicious and dis
| trustful of him, sought revenge, which
| was accomplished i'll the following man
| ner:
| In the year 1914, for some trivial neglect
of duty, EheyIapoa was ordered to his
district of Saffragam, and lhither he re-
tired, in obedience to his kings command
but as Eheylapola was beloved sincerely
10y the inhabitants Of Saffragam, they ex-
hibited every demonstration of JOY at the
return of Eheylapoia. This Sri Wikrama
chose to construe into an act of rebellion,
and proclaimed Saffrag gam to be in state
of insurrection, and dispatched troops
there, to make Eheylapola prisoner, aud
bring him to the capital alive or dead !;
and these were commanded by Molll-
! godde, formerly the second adlkar. but
upon whom Sri Wikrama had bestowed
The place of Eheylapola. This nobleman,
however, with several chiefs, took refuge
in Colombo, placing themselves under the
protection of the British government,
whilst MoIligodde took prisoners many OF
of his adhereDts, and returned triumphant
| ly to Handy, carrying with HIM the ad-
| herents of Eheylapola. The fury of the
King at the escape of Eheylapola knew
no bounds, and he wreaked hls vengeance
on the victims within his grasp. Execn-
tons, tortnres, implements, mutllations,
confscations, and iInprsonments were
now the daiIy-aimost honriy-occur-
rences. The place of torture and execu-
ton flowed with human gore-the air
was filed with the shrieks of victims, un-
der the hands of the tor,urer, and Randy
was now one vast slaughtering place.
AS Sri Wikrama could not get the per-
son OF Eheylapola into his power, he de-
terinned 10 obtain possession of his wife
and children. Accordingly. they were
made prisoners. with Ehey lapola's brother
and his wife, the tyrant resolving to wreak
his vengeance on all. They were. forth
WITH brought to Handy, condemned to
suffer death for being the wife, offspring,
and relations of rebel, aud were to be
executed publicly in the market-place OF
Handy, in The presence of the whole court
and population. The day appointed for
this horrible bu cherry arrived, and the wife
of Eheylapola, with his four children, (the
eldest boy being bu; eleven years DID, and
the youngest an iniant OF few months
old, sucking at his mothers breast,) were
ID to the place of execution. The wife,
a woman of majestic mein and noble de-
pertinent, attired in her court dress. and
adorned with all her jewels of state, be-
lifting her rank aud station, advanced
IDLY 10 meet her fate, declaring her hns-
bands integrity, aud expressing her hope
that the life which she was about to give
up might be of benefit to him. She was
ordered to stand back, as it was the kings
command that she was to die last-tO
stand by and see her children butchered.
She uttered no remonstrance, but en-
braced her eldest boy, telling him to sub
mt to his fate as became Eheylapola 5 sou.
The child hesitated, and, terrified, clung
TO his mother for protection, when his
brother, two years younger, stepped Tor
ward boldly, embraced his mother, and
told his brother not TO disgrace his father
by such cowardiy conduct. and that he
would show him how to die as became
Eheylap polas son advanced with firm
step to the eXecutioner-one bloW-a llte-
less trunk, deuged in blood, falls TO the
earth, and the young noble spirit had
taken its flight But the refinement of
barbarous cruelty was not to terminate
in compelling mother to stand and see
her offspring eutchered; the trunkess
head was thrown into a paddy-pounder,
the pestle placed III the mothers hand.
aud she was ordered to pound the head
of her child, or she acould be disgrace-
fuLLY tortured. The mother hesltated
but the feelings OF innate deiicacy i'm
planted in the hi yh-born womans breast
prevaileu-every mental anguish would
be preferable TO the public exposure OF
her person-she lifted up the peste, clos
inc her eyes, and let it fall Oh the skull
of her dead child This hideons scene
was enacted with the two other children.
aud the wretclled mother had to endure
the same mental torture. AT last II was
the infant S turn to die, and it was take, :,
from its mothers arms, where 1t laid
sleeping and smiling iu Tranquil uncon-
sciollsuesS EheYl. noIa's urifa ,rassed