sentences:  Anticipating such a scenario the King sent an envoy to the English Governor of Madras to assist him in expelling the Dutch.This envoy, a junior Kandyan Official in the military made a clandestine trip to Madras Fort, and the English responded by sending their councillor John Pybus.John Pybus, a writer of the British East India Company, sailed to Kandy with a backup of five ships and about 200 armed men.