 | 1816 - 564 pages
...Majesty are directed ; his Excellency proclaims hostility against that tyrannical power alone, which has provoked, by aggravated outrages and indignities, the just resentment of the British nation, which ha» cut oil" the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of... | |
 | Asia - 1816 - 670 pages
...Majesty are directed; his Excellency proclaims hostility against that tyrannical power alone, .which has provoked, by aggravated outrages and indignities, the just resentment of the British nation, which has cut off the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with tbe blood of... | |
 | William Knighton - Sri Lanka - 1845 - 424 pages
...history,) a proclamation of war was sent forth, not against the Candian territory or nation, but " against that tyrannical power which had provoked,...in the kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of its subjects, and, by the violation of every religious and moral law, had become an object of abhorrence... | |
 | Henry Marshall - Sri Lanka - 1846 - 328 pages
...Majesty are directed ; his Excellency proclaims hostility against that tyrannical power alone, which has provoked, by aggravated outrages and indignities, the just resentment of the British nation, which has cut off the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of... | |
 | University magazine - 1849 - 836 pages
...of January, 1815, war was declared against the King of Kandy, not against the Kandian nation, " but against that tyrannical power which had provoked,...of the British nation, which had cut off the most noble families in the kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of its subjects, and, by the violation... | |
 | Henry Charles Sirr - Sri Lanka - 1850 - 434 pages
...of January, 1815, war was declared against the King of Kandy, not against the Kandian nation, " but against that tyrannical power which had provoked,...of the British nation, which had cut off the most noble families in the kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of its subjects, and, by the violation... | |
 | WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH - 1851 - 716 pages
...having been made to Sir Robert Brownrigg, then governor of the island, he, in 1815, declared war " against that tyrannical power, which had provoked,...and indignities, the just resentment of the British nation,—which had cut off the most noble families in the kingdom, deluged the land with the blood... | |
 | British - 1875 - 528 pages
...Majesty are directed : his Excellency proclaims hostility against that tyrannical power alone, which has provoked, by aggravated outrages and indignities, the just resentment of the British nation, which has cut off the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of... | |
 | L. de Bussche - Kandy (Sri Lanka) - 1999 - 180 pages
...the.just resentment of the British nation, which has cut off the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of his subjects,...moral law, become an object of abhorrence to mankind. For securing the permanent tranquillity of these settlements, and in vindication of the honour of the... | |
 | Philalethes - History - 2003 - 378 pages
...proclamation, in which it was declared that the British arms were not directed against the Candian nation, but " only against that tyrannical power which...just resentment of the British nation, which had cut oft* the most ancient and noble families in the kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of his subjects,... | |
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British nation, which has cut off the most ancient and noble families in his kingdom, deluged the land with the blood of his subjects, and, by the violation of every religious and moral law, become an object of abhorrence to mankind. 