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These he transmitted to the Bombay Government, and that Government forwarded them to the Court of Directors. The Court, in September. 1834, returned these letters, with an intimation that they did not de sire to be the medium of the Raja's correspondence with gentlemen in England, though there was no objection to such ; they, at the same time, applied themselves to a consideration of the matter in dispute, and passed a de cision which might be interpreted in his Highness's favour, though it was not so precise as to make it certain that the Court had seized the material points of the case. This decision was made known to the Raja in April, 1835, and the Resident, General Lodwick, received orders to furnish Government with a list of the jagheers to which this decision of the Court applied ; this was done in July, 1835. Nothing followed upon this. The Raja did not receive an acknowledgement of what he thought were his rights, nor knew why he was kept out of them. In the spring of 1836 his Highness had a meeting with the Governor, Sir Robert Grant, and immediately questioned him earnestly upon this subject, which he had most deeply at heart. It is certain that the Go vernor informed his Highness that the matter had been referred home, and it is equally certain that this was a mistake, as this ,very- question; and the Resident's letter of July, 1835, had not been brought to the Court's notice, though the Governor thought it had; but a reference had, it seems, been made regarding a jagheer in Khandesh, held by a jagheerdar subject to his Highness as his liege para mount, which case might very well be imagined to ditlisr materially from that of the jagheer of the Punt Suchew. It is positively stated, by the Raja Vakeel, and I think that I heard the thing stated in India long before the unfortunate occurrences of 1835 and succeeding years, that Balajipunt Nattoo had advanced considerable sums of money to the Punt Suchew, the recovery of which would, of course, be much facilitated, by the trans fer of a portion of the Suehew's jagheer to the British jurisdiction--should this be so, a pecuniary interest would be superadded to the feelings of disappointed am bition, wounded vanity, and irritated sectarianism, to in duce him to use his best endeavours to effect that which could not but de: ply mortify the Raja. The Raja discovered or was persuaded, that the question had not again been referred home, and felt deeply mortified. He found himself curtailed in rights which lie much valued, and after a decision in his favcur by the same authorities, lie found even this apparently disregarded to his disadvantage, and no intention shown to submit the matter again to those authorities. If he knew his ene mies, and most men do, though fear or policy may often prevent this being shown, he would not fail to attribute his mortification to their machinations; but he fairly in timated to the Resident, that his confidence in the Bom bay Government was much impaired, and the Resident himself fell under his displeasure, from an idea, doubt less, that the neglect which he experienced was, at least, in part attributable to that officer. Finding, therefore, that he could not recover from the equity of the Bombay Government, the right of which he had, he conceived, been unjustly deprived for four years, he resolved on sendingan Embassy to the Court of Directors, a step neither necessary nor wise; but certainly not indicative of any treasonable intents; and I should say quite incon sistent with the idea that the Raja's mind could be occu pied with any such schemes. Treasonable plots, when entertained, usually occupy a man's mind pretty corn pletely. I should not expect to see an extensive political intriguer engage in a Chanc er y su it. It was at t hi s perio, when the Raja's mind was agitated by a feeling that he had been neglected and wronged, when he was dissatisfied with the Government and the Resident, and when the Governor felt displeased with his Highness for saying that the Governor had nut informed hirn that another reference had been made to the Court regarding the jagheers, that the charge was brought against the Raja of hi s h av i ng a tt emp t e d to se duce the Soobtulars of the 23d Native Infantry from their allegiance. It is not my intention to dwell at length upon that case. I have stated that I think the Commis sion'.s proceedings cannot be considered as a hearing to the Baja, and, independently of this objection, the evi -1 dence against his Highness seems to be weak in the ex ' treme. The result was, as we know, that his Highness was declared to be proved guilty, though the transaction altogether was not deemed of so much importance as had at first been thought to attach to it. " The attempt to tamper with our native troops," says Sir It. Grant, in his minute, 30th May, 1839, par. 3 (S. P. i., 235), " viewed as an isolated act, appeared so monstrously wild and extravagant, as to induce this Government to think that unless some more distinct and intelligible act of impropriety could be brought home to the Baja, it would not be expedient to adopt extreme measures against his Highness." However, while the measures of Government in this matter were under con sideration a petition to Government, dated the 13th of December, 1P36, was received in Bombay, by post. on the 6th of March, 1837. purporting to have conic from Girjabiue., the mother of the titular Dewan Govind Row, then ;.n confinement, as a State prisoner, at Poona, imputing various plots and conspiracies of a treasonable naturs to t:.c Raja, and confessing to the guilt of her son, as at, agent nder compulsion. A dark chapter follows: —General idodwick was removed from the Residency in a mantle: certainly betraying great disingenuousness. He was told that he had not the Raja's confidence, and that " a new person was required to ascertain whether he might not succeed, by the reciprocities qf a free and friendly intercourse, in winning from his Highness that confidence which he had, however unreasonably or un gratefully, withdrawn from" the General; and then it appears, that in the first instructions to the new Re sident, he is directed "to be distant and reserved in all his communications with the Raja." The reason given for the General's removal was not the real one. Others appear in the Governor's minutes of the time, and in Sir R. Grant's minutes of the 18th - June, 1837, paragraph 4 (S. P. i. 84, paragraph 4) it is stated that the delay which had taken place in instituting an inquiry into the matter of the petition of Gidabaee " originated in our conviction that this inquiry could not with safety be entrusted to the late Resident." Those reasons inti. on their interview at the palace! I should- not think that much faith can be reposed safely in Cosia Maloo. I now proceed to lay before the Court such arguments as 'occur to me, arising from a general review of the fea tures of this case—why the motion for adjournment and why a f u ll d e b a t e on t h e caso should not .b e carr i e d, should be allowed. The deposed Raja of Sattara- was raised to the throne by the British Government in 1819, and from that time, to the year 1832, conducted himself so admirably, that he was the theme of constant applause to the four successive Residents at his Court, to the Bombay Government, and to the Court of Directors, as an able and benignant ruler ; while his finality its an ally was so undoubted, that the Government of Bombay, in the time of Sir John Malcolm, voluntarily relaxed the provision of the non-intercourse article in his treaty, so as to admit of his corresponding with the chieftains in his neighbourhood, His administration was just, liberal, and enlightened, but he had enemies, not from faults ta' his own, but ita some measure in consequence of his very excellencies. The first of these was Appa Sahib, his unworthy brother. That this person was the Raja's bitter enemy no one can doubt. Th e i r di sagreement ' was a matter of public notoriety, though the Raja never failed to treat Appa Sahib with kindness and attention. This ungrateful man, early in 1835, and one:: previously in the time of Sir John Malcolm, made an attempt to in duce the British Government to con f er on hi m h a lf o f his brother' s r a j, and we find him, by Balajipunt Nattoo's evidence beforeAhe Commissi on ,. (S. P. iii. 113)- giving information ilionths previously, or about April, 1835, which no one can credit, that " His Highness had written to his agent in Bombay, that if he fails to obtain redress in England, (whither he was sending an embassy)—he would go over to the Russians ; tell them that his kingdom is.one of fifty-six crones of rupees ; that they must bring an army and reinstate him in his raj, and that he will ultimately repay their expenses by in stalments." Balajipunt Nattoo, his confidant, says, " The Raja has seduced his brother's wife, and therefore they they are on bad terms." I can only say, it' this were true Appa sahib would be in my eyes an infinitely greater wretch than I have believed him to be. Ile lived in the.palace, and he lived in the employment, and on the revenues of his brother ; and what should we think of the enormous hypocrisy which he must have practised while so living, if suffering under this cruel wrong ? I must say, however, that I disbelieve the as sertion of Balajipunt Nattoo. Appa Sahib's elder wife, who fled to the Raja, it was said, in consequence of Appa Sahib's misconduct, is stated by the Residents to have always borne an irreproachable character, and if she had been treated by the Raja otherwise than it became him to treat his brother's wife, I cannot imagine that either through complaint from Appa. Sahib, or dissension in the Raja's family, the thing should not have become known to the Resident, who would scarcely have failed to urge his Highness to terminate so disgraceful a con nexion. Is it to be credited that this person who so un generously strove on two Occasions to deprive the Raja half his territories, would not have contrived that a fact should come to the knowledge of our Government, which could not fail to lower the Raja in its estimation ? I think badly of Appa Sahib, on the ground of in formation placed on record when th ere cou ld b e no object in misrepresenting him, but I do not think so badly of him as I should if I believed the evidence of his confidant Balajipunt - Natoo. The second of the Raja's enemies was Balajipunt Natoo. This person, a leading and bigoted Brahmin, of great talet4 and art, canning, ambitious, and worldly-minded, was possessed of considerable influence with all the British authorities in the Deccan. That he was the Raja's enemy is sufficiently apparent from his evidence before the Commission, wherein he states that six months previously he had reported to Mr. John Warden, that the Raja contemplated, if he had not committed, a breach of his engagements with the British Government The same evidence shows him also to be Appa Sahib's confidant, and the Willing hearer, if not utterer, of his Slanders against his brother. We find, too, from General Lodwick's letter to the Court of Directors, dated Oct. 9, 1840, that this artful enemy, in Nov., 1835, Observed " that there were some rumours of a plot formed by the neighbouring feudal chiefs subordinate to the British Government. and particularly by the Chief of Sanglee and the Raja of Colapore, and that the Raja of Sattara might be talked over to join in it , but that he would be enabled to establish the truth or fhlsehood of his report of the Raja's being about to join in such con spiracy by his Highness intimating to me his intention to join a hunting party on the borders of those states, or his visiting those chiefs in his annual tour during the next four months." "'ascertained," continues Gen. Lodwick, " that this information came from the Raja's brother, and I at tached proportionately less credit to it." But what an artful intimation was this ? Balajipunt had but to in duce the Raja to make one of the harmless excursions above-mentioned, and then he was at once entangled in a conspiracy ! His Highness, however, fortunately had not made either of them, and the Resident, in conse quence, set down the information as false. The follow ing are proofs of the enmity existing between both Chintamun Row and the Colapore Raja on the one hand, and the Raja of Sattara on the other, and that enmity must have been known to Balajipunt Nattoo :—Extract of a letter from Mr. Dunlop, dated 12th April, 1837, par. 6 With regard to Chintamun Row's friendly intercourse between him and the Sattara Raja, it seems to be highly improbable for several reasons. He is a zealous, I may say, bigotted Brahmin, and feels extreme enmity at the Raja for his encouragement of the Furbhoo caste in the performance of Brahminical ceremonies, which ha has taken up and written against in the spirit of a polemic. The Sungleekur's long-established high character should also protect him from suspicion, except on strong grounds, neither do I think he would trust the Raja if all their other motives were wanting." With respect to the Calapore Raja the Chittavees is reported when in confinement to have stated, "I believe that the fact is upon record that, such was that Raja's feelings against the Raja of Sattara, that he declined to receive a visit which the latter wished to pay him, and that this was in consequence abandoned." I observe ;hat my ex cellent friend, Mr. Willoughby, states that neither him self nor Colonel Ovans knew Balajipunt Nattoo pre viously to the assembling of the Sattara Commission. I consider this much to be deplored, for I cannot but think that if they had known him they could not have considered him the Raja's friend, even though he should have appeared such. The evidence given above, together with his own evidence, seems to show that he was not so, nor do I observe that he even states that he endea voured to reclaim the Raja from th e d a n g erous c ourse w hi c h he represents that he was p ursu i ng . So m uc h towar d s showing that he was the Raja's enem y. The following are reasons why it might be expected that he should be so. Ist. Because the Raja had rejected him as his Dewan, a place which he was desirous of filling, and which he now occupies under Appa Sahib. 2d. Because he was a leadi ng Brahmin, and belonged to a c a st e which was never at peace with the Raja, and because he was a connexion, the son of the one being married to the daughter of the other of Nilkunt Shastree of Poona, who, with the Swamee of Sunkeshwur and Chintamun Row, of Sanglee, was at the head of the Brahmin league against the Furbhoo and other castes on a question of religion, in which dispute, whether rightly or the reverse, the Raja opposed the pretensions of the Brahmins. The Raja's feel ings towards Balaji punt Natoo I should imagine partook largely of fear ; but if he thought him his friend. I should consider the fact merely a proof how egregiously his Highness was deceived by lila artful enemy. The third party hostile to the Raja were the Brahmins generally. The Raja himself did not disguise his dislike and distrust of the members of this caste, and instituted schools avowedly with the design of instructing Mahrattas, and by this means destroying the predominant influence of the Brah mins ; and the violent religious dispute which arose be tweet' the Brahmins on the one hand, and the Furbhoos and other castes on the other, and in which the Raja was considered to wrong the Brahmins, engendered a feeling of hostility on the part of the Brahmi ns t owar d s th e Raja, the strength of which it is difficult to conceive. The three heads of this league of religionists were the Swatnee of SunkeshWur, Chintamun Row of Sanglee, anti Nilkunt Shastree of Poona. These were all notoriously hostile to the Raja on religious grounds. The first was an "inveterate intriguer," as_described by Mr. Dunlop, and proved by his having seals of the Peishwo. and Guicowar in his possession ; and all of them were bigots and polemics. Opposed as th e y have always been to his Highness, we nevertheless find it credited that the Raja engaged in in trigues with the Swamee, and that Chintamur Row, in possession of evidence likely to be deeply detrimen tal to his Highness, evaded furnishing it to Government. though it is admitted that such was his hostility to the Raja, that he tried, by means of information which he had, or pretended to have, to frighten his Highness into his views in the religious feud between th e B ra h m i ns and the other castes, which he did not succeed in doing. These are the enemies, Appa Sahib, Balajipunt Natoo, and the Brahmins, whose arts and unwearied malignity, aided by tie too ready belief of the British authorities, in charges against the deposed Raja, and their refusal to give him a hearing, have occasioned the condemnation and dethronement of that much-injured Prince. It has been stated that up to the year 1832 the utmost har mony, cordiality, and confidetre . prevailed b e t ween th e Bombay GOvernment and that of his Highness. In that year the Raja ' s jurisdiction over a portion of the j ag h eers of the Punt Suchew, one of his Highness's jagheerdars, was questioned on the ground that such portion lay be yond the boundary line of the Sattara, territory. I be lieve that I am right in saying that from 1819 to 1832 his llighness's jurisdiction over this tract had always been exercised without dispute ; the claim to the juris diction on the part of the Company was, however, now advanced by the deputy agent for Sirdar, in the Dec. can, w h o in noticing it observes, " I am supporte d i n a ll I have said by the opinion of Balajipunt Natoo, who, as Mr. Vphinstone's confidential native agent, soperin tended at Sattara the preparation of the treaty and schedule, on which the Raja founds his pretension." The Bombay .Government decided the question against the Raja, who, theta:4l)re, like an holiest straightforward man, deprived, as he considered, without just cause, of that to which he was entitled, and which he highly that one of these gentlemen is present to hear the re marks which I have telt, and may feel myself, bound to make. And here, I must observe, there is a fundamen tal objection to th e proceedings of the Commissioners, as being a trial, or hearing, of the Raja. Sir, this was no trial, for one of the requisites of trial was wanting, inasmuch as the person accusQd was not allowed to be present from the commencement. I have seen many judi cial trials. I have heard of many military trials. I have been acquainted also with miscellaneous trials by Com mission ; but I never yet heard of one of any kind what ever, in which the person accused was not allowed to be present from the commencement; or, if he were a person of rank who could not with propriety himself attend, to depute some competent person to be present on his behalf from the commencement. There may, of course, be secret- Commissions for investigating supposed occurrences, and ascertaining to whom they are probably at tributable ; and at this stage such matters may be known to the Cummissioners alone ; but when the trial, or hearing, of a certain individual for a certain act is undertaken, I cannot but conceive that that indi vidual has a right to be present from the commencement. Now such liberty was not given to the Raja. I find that on the second day of the proceedings, General Lod , wick proposed that the Raja should be allowed to ap point a vakeel, or advocate, to conduct his uefence, as lie w4 - nild probably not desire to attend himself. This pro position was overruled by the other members of the Commission, " as being premature, and inconsistent with the instructions under which they act, end calculated to defeat the object for.. which the . Commission is as iembled ;" and then the matter was allowed to rest for the time, the General not requiring, I suppose, the im mediate transmission to Governrirent of the paper con taining his proposal ; and the Commission continued their labours without making any communication to the Raja, until the ninth day, when it was resolved by all the three members, that the Raja must be communicated with. and the reasons for that not having been done pre viously are stated to be, first that it would have been pre mature to make any communication to his Highness the Ilaja of Sattara, until sufficient evidence- had been ob tained to criminate his Highness, and to render it ne cessary that the . Commission should call upon his Highness for . a defence ; and, secondly because the effect of acting on General Lodwick's suggestions would have been to give iinmediate publicity to the Com mission's proceedings, and to have defeated the object for which it was constituted by Government. I must • frankly say, that these reasons do not appear to me by any means conclusive. In truth, I cannot conceive any reasons satisfactory for not allowing a person on trial to be present at the trial from the commencement. The Commission certainly had, on the very first day of its asSemhtng, sufficient evidence to criminate his High ness, if it could be depended upon. They had before them the whole of the papers contained in Appendix A to their proceedings, which contain three statements, by the Soobadar Sewgoolam Sing, and as many by the Soobadar Gooljar Missur, to the general effect of their e,yidence before the Commission. Surely, here was evidence sufficient it' true to criminate his Highness. If am -answered that these statements were not on oath (of which point I am not sure, for though the word "depose" is used in five statements out of the six, yet there is no further intimation that the party was sworn), and that it was requisite that they should first be so taken, then I would say, the appointment of the Commission to try the Raja was premature. The depositions should have first been duly , The following is the powerful, argumentative, and eloquent speech delivered by Mr. Charles Norris at the India House, when the treatment of this unfortu nate Prince came under the consideration of the Pro prietors. It is of great length, but those interested in the affairs of India will find many facts deserving their attention : Mr. Chairman, I rise for the purpose of offering to the attention of the Court various reasons which eresent themselves to me-why the motion of adjournment should not be carried, and why a full debate on thecase of the de posed Raja should be allowed to take place. In doing so, I mean in the first instance, to refer to the Report and proceedings of the Commission which have already been largely commented upon by the Proprietor who has just sat down (Mr. Thompson). Upon this branch of the subject, there are one or two points on which I am desirous of offering a few observations. First with respect to the pawn (betel nut given on occasion of taking leave), which the two S.obadars declare that they re ceived from the hand of the Raja, after their treasonable interviews with his Highness ; they both positively swear that they did so receive it, and they sent the pan which they stated they had so received, to their officer, by whom it was sent to General Lodwick. It seems to me - most remark able that the Commission in mentioning in their Report what they considered proved with respect to the inter views of the Soobadars with. the Raia,alo not-include ,phis '.,presentation or - fian. .The Soobadars, as I have said, swore to it, and they forwarded to their officer the which they said they had re- ' ceived. There is therefore no possibility of mistake here. The evidence of the Soobadars on this point is either true or absolutely and wilfully false. The Com mission do not include the presentation of pan among the circumstances proved, and I suppose there fore they considered that it was not established. The, evidence against the Soobadars on this point is that of Balajipunt Nattoo, who positively declares that the Raja with . his own hand never gave a single packet of pan to any one, while the Soobadars declare they each so received it;-and that of General Lodwick who in a letter, (Appendix ,E to the Commissioners' pro ceedings, pp. 152 and 153, vol. iii. Sattara Papers), also declares that the Raja never presented a single packet of pan to any one ; and further declares that the packets sent to him by the officer to whom the Soobadars had delivered them were three times the size I of those given at the Court of the Raja, and were "not loose (as was usual at the Court) but made up with particular care." "At the time (he says) Lieut. Stock gave them to me, I attached no great importance to these circumstances, and from the perishable nature of the leaf, I did not attempt to keep them. The leaves were fine, and even sup,eior in appearance to those above submitted, but the peCuliar circumstances attach ing to them consisted in the great size of the bundles and the extreme nicety with which they were done up ; and to the best of my recollection, this was contrived without being tied with plantain leaf, as in those before the Commission" (then produced by the General, as having been received by him the'night before, Oct. 17, 1836, at the Palace). I must say I consider this evi dence as prodigiously strong against the averment of the Soobadars, and I presume that the Commission so con sidered it, inasmuch as that averment is not stated by the Commission as established ; yet how so ma tt vial a circumstance, regarding which there could be no mistake, cculd be disbelieved without utter destruction to the credit or the Soobadars, I find it difficult to conceive. For my part I must say that if I believed the rest of the story of the Soobadars, I should really, I think, feel myself constrained, difficult as it would be, to believe also this assertion so positively made by the Soobadars, and confirmed by their transmission of the pan to their officer. However, lam in no such difficult situa. tion. I consider their evidence utterly unworthy of credi on other grounds, and believe that their assertion re garding the pan is only one falsehood among ninny. To place a parallel case before gentlemen who have not been in India, let us suppose a person who might not be expected to enjoy that honour, to declare to us that he had had an interview with the Queen, and further, that her Majesty had presented him with her portrait ! We might surely be expected to doubt the truth of his statement. But then let us suppose him, by way of proving the truth of his assertion, to produce a portrait of Madame Vestris ! Then, surely, the only question for us to decide would be, whether such person was a madman or an impudent impostor. Such is the condition in which the Soobadars seem to me to stand, and I consider them to have wilfully given fidse evidence. There are other points also in which their evidence ap pears to me to be beyond measure weak and unworthy of belief. First, with respect to the important point of the spot where the treasonable interviews with the Raja took place. We find the Soobadar Sewgodim Sing saying (p. 92, vol. iii., Sattara Papers), 4 ! Going on a few taro information as to the writer of that letter, as also on other points connected with that affair. " 12. In order, however, to dispel the illusion as to Govind Row's release, which threatens to throw such serious obstacles in the way of this important inquiry, I beg most respectfully to propose that the Dewan be sent immediately, under guard, to Ahmednuggur, and placed in strict confinement there: that he only be attended by his own servant, and that all other intercourse with him be for the present prohibited. " 13. It is to be hoped that this measure, if adopted, may serve to show that the rumours of Govind Row's return are without foundation ; and, this being felt, his mother and his other friends may be induced to come forward and disclose all they know, as the only means of assisting him. But whatever may be the result, the effect of this step should certainly be tried without less of time." Goyim' Roy was accordingly removed on the sth of July, 1837, from Poona, to be transferred to the gaol at Ahmednuggur. On the 7th .July the Resident reported that he had been visited by the Baee and two persons in her confidence, and that having read to them the papers purporting to have been sent by Girjabaee, they all agreed that the contents were true, though none of them knew the writer. On the 21st July the Resident sent up a statement of Sukaram Bullal, uncle of Govind Row (one of the two friends of Girjabaee above alluded declared that he had caused the petition to be written by the hand of Mandoo Fugree, who Col. Ovens stated was " a Brahmin living in their own house," viz., that of Govind Row. Sukaram Bullal, how ever, in an additional paragraph to his statement, says that he had come as a visitor, and that then he went off immediately to a distance. Madhowjee Gungadhur, the Race's other confidant, on the 25th July, made a declara tion to the same effect. On the 30th July, Sukaram Bullal being pressed to produce the person who wrote the petition, said that he was an Oomedwar (candidate for employment), and that when he left the house he said that he was going to Hindostan (the northern part of India), and that it was on this account that he was employed to write the petition for fear of the Maharaj. On the 24th July. the Government, at the recommen dation of the Resident, that the Judge of Ahmednuggur, be instructed to admit Sukaram Bullal to Govind Row, who Balajipunt Nattoo, in his evidence before tho Commission, says, " is not a very wise man, and will do as he is bid," directs the Judge to admit accordingly any agent whom the Resident may depute. And on the 4th August, Colonel Ovans reports that Sukaram Bullal left Sattara die day before to visit his nephew, Govind Row. The Resident at the same time states that he has re ceived a petition from Girjabaee, requesting that her son, Govind Row, may be released from the gaol of Ali mednuggur, and allowed to occupy quarters in the town ; and he suggests th a t thi s step " s h ou ld not be taken until the arrival of Sukaram Bullul at Ahmednuggur, and that he should be con sulted as to the proper time for granting this " indulgence," and corresponding instructions were ac cordingly issued to the Judge of Ahmednuggur on the 16th August. Now, surely here was a g reat m i sta k e , if we allow that th e Bombay Government could desire true evidence only—if we allow that the Resident could desire true evidence only—if we allow, and it would be more than I think could reasonably be asked, that Balajipunt Nattoo could desire true evidence only, there can be no doubt about the situation of Sukaram Bullal. He had declared that Govind Row had admitted the existence of the Raja's intrigues;, therefore, when he is sent to confer with Govind Row, what is this but to strive to constrain Govind Row to eorfirm the statement of Sukaram Bullal, whether it were true or _lobe? fir it cannot be supposed that that individual would consent to Govind Row's - making any statement which conflicted with his. And when we find as above that Govind Row's liberation or continuance in a strict imprisonment was made to depend upon Sukaram Bailers pleasure, the case becomes worse still. Surely no value can be placed on: evidence so got. nor on any pr ocure d i n an i nqu i ry upon which such things are done ; for the effect of this step could not b.• limited to Govind Row, it would spread all over the countri, and there would not be wanting agents without orders to take care that it did so. I beg explicitly to state, that I have no desire to cast any imputation upon Colonel Ovens, beyond that o; error in judgment, in suggesting. the steps above mentioned, which, it will have been seen were fully approved by the Government ; but an error I think it was, and one that could not but shake far better evi dence than has been produced against the Raja. The next papers in this history, are the following letter from the Acting Session Judge of Ahmednuggur, dated the 7.214r:1; rcACTING August, aAsv l . hEeB:3;h7: the honour dNh a n n ouj c n i guog a, rn s i . t ti o c od l IdF AI NiGoGt4:olll:BeT3co7:pvt. WATISEN, ESQ., CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT. awlat, —I of your letter, dated the 28th ult., and to inform you that, by desire of the Acting Resident at Satt ara , Suka ram Bullal, uncle to Govind Row, the State prisoner now in my charge, has for many days had free access to his nephew ; and that I have also, at Sukaram's solicitation, permitted his, Govind Row's (younger) brother, t o ac company him in their visits. - Their object has been to induce hint to disobse what he knew regarding the lite proceedings of the Sattara Court, in which they have been successful. taken, and then the trial have commenced Y be fore the Commission, the Raja having the privilege of atter.ding or s,,nding a substitute from the beginutdg— fur no reason of this kind should have arisen to deprive the person accused of so essential a right. The second reason alleged, viz., the desire of keeping their proceed ings secret appears to me, I must say, in like manner, quite inadequate to justify the departure from an obvious principle of justice; nor am I at all clear that the secrecy ifsugge.ted to the Raja would not have been maintained —fir, I think, that he would have lost far more than he gained by the publication of the fact that he was under trial for treason to the British Government. I must clearly express that I do not consider the Commissioners to blame, as regards the Government, by whom their pro ceedings were entirely approved ; but it is clear that the Raja's rights, such as they were at this crisis, could not be justly affected other by the Commissioners or by the Government; and I consider that they were most seriously infringed by his not being allowed to be present per sonally or by substitute during the whole of the proceedings of the Commission for trying him. In principle he was deeply injured, as I conceive, by this proceeding, and in fact so deeply, that I am inclined to attribute to this circumstance alone, the condemns . tion which the Commission passed upon him. Ills Highness attended, when first permitted to do so. on the 13th day; a difference of opinion, which required a refer ence to Government, having prevented until then the communication which it was resolved on the 9th day to make to his Highnes. How momentous to him were these twelve days. During this period the examination of the whole of the witnesses against him, with the ex paces, we arrived at a narrow stairjase:w hick w; ascended. The Dewan went first, Untajee second, I third, and Gooljar fourth, and entered a good sized room, where we saw the Raja sitting, and smoking a hooka with a ception of lour questions put to the Soobadar Goober Missur, and further examination of the worthless wretch Untajee, had taken place, andall the discrepancies, inn herencies, and improbabilities of the evidence of the principal witnesses had been disposed of, got over, well or ill, and certainly without being subjected to such scrutiny as would have been applied by a bold and talented advocate of the Raja, British or Native. I firmly believe that if his Highness bad had the advantage of the attendance of such an advocate during this period, the result would have been the detection of the collusion which I believe existed, and the perjury of the Soobadars. I now return to the few remarks which I have to make on the evidence of the witnesses, On the lath day of the proceedings Setegoolam Sing is cross-examined as follows : long snake, and a woman on his right — hand. When we entered, the Raja smiled, and told us to be seated." Gooljar Missur again (Sattara Papers, vol. iii., p. 97) says, " We passed by some servants sleeping in a room, and first turning to the right, and then to the left, we came to the apartment of the Raja, who was sitting on a cushion, smoking a hooka. He was not in an upper room." (The witness is here spe cially asked whether, they ascended a staircase, and replies, No.) Now, first, I would observe that the natives of India have a great aptitude for remembering correctly places, directions, and any peculiarities in their path ; but, secondly, these men had been deputed by their offi cer to this visit under special orders to observe carefully in order that they might report correctly, and I do there fore think it impossible that such a discrepancy as this could have occurred in their story, had it been a true one. The Commission, in a subsequent part of their Report (S. P. iii., 112), most justly call this " a dis crepancy of importance," and say that it " at the time at tracted the attention of the Commission." I do not wonder at that. I am only surprised that the utmost distrust of the veracity of the Soobadars was not at once engendered in the minds of the Commissioners, and tf;at they did not instantly take measures for kee.. , )ing them strictly separate, and proceed to that furtlor cross-examination of them which would, in all probability, if they had wilfully sworn falsely, have pro duced a disclosure of still wider and more desperate dis crepancies Indeed ! Let us reflect, where was this Commission sitting? At Sattara, within, probably, three • quarters of a miie from the Raja's palace. Why might not the one Soobadar have been required at once to conduct one 0Y the members of the Commission to the upper room, whe. - e the treason, lie said, wai committed, and the other their, in like manner, have been required to point out the low.Or room, which he. alleged to be the scene of the treason ? Nothing, however, of this kind was done ; on the contrary, facility to falsehood was given. That important discrepancy, -vhich at the time attracted the attention of the Commission, occurred on the sth day of the Commission's sitting, and on the 9th day we find that the Soobaklar Gooljar Missur, when called before the Commission to be confronted with " 2. I had an interview this morning with Govind Row, at which, after explaining the circumstances under which, he was, as he describes it, reluctantly led to take part in them, he presented me with the enclosed, written, as he assures me, with his own hand, and which I had previ ously given him the means of preparing. •` 3. The interview the Raja and himself herein described as having had with the Soobadars, took place, ho says, in Shrwun Vud, between 27th August and 11 th September, 1836, but the exact date he does nut remember. " Q. Did Gooljar Missur keep a journal of the events you have referred to?—.A.: I do not know whether he did or not. He never told me that he did.—(The wit ness corrects himself, and states, Gooljar did deep a me morandum, and that he has himself seen it.) Q. Did you after each interview compare notes with Gooljar Soobadar, and arrange beforehand what was to be written down ?—A. We met together after the first interview with the Dewan, and wrote down what had oc curred. We frequently conversed together on the sub ject. lam not certain, but I think we wrote down what had occurred at the interviews with the Raja." On the same day Gooljar Missur is cross-examined as follows : " 4. Every attention has been paid to Goyim] Row's comfort since he came here. He now seems willing to communicate to me all he knows, and I have no doubt of being able to obtain from him ♦NY INFORMATION THE Go- VERMENT MAY DESIRE. " 5. A copy of the 'enclosed confession will 'be for warded to the Resident, together with a note that has been intercepted between the attendants of Sukaram and Govind Row. but to which I see no reason to attach any importance.—l have the honour, Eze. " B. HUTT, Acting Session Judge. " (INCLOSURE IN THE ABOVE.) " Translation of a Yad (statement) from Govind Row Wittul, as delivered to the Acting Session Judge of Ahmednugxur ; dated 24th August, 1824. " I make the following representation, that the cir cumstances (therein contained) may become known to the (British) Government, that Untajee Wagh did bring the two Soobadars of the Pultnn (Native Regiment) to me. They were once taken to Alabaraj (the Raja of Sattara), and the Maharaj taking them privately aside, did speak to the Soobadars about (forming) friendship, and other matters. These communications they (the Soobadars) have also already revealed to the Sahib (the Resident or the Commission). The reason for my not at first representing those proceedings to (the British) Government was, that it was my wish to preserve the friendship between the Mabaraj's Government (Raja, of Sattara) and the Company's Government inviolate, and no obstruction should happen to it ; for this reason, I did not make any intimation. When I may have a meet ing with the Resident, Ovans Sahib (Lieut.-Colonel Ovans), then I will make a detailed statement of the whole of these matters. lam (was) a servant, and it is (was) necessary to act according to orders. It now rests with the Company's Government in every way kindly to save me (meaning to protect him from the Raja's vengeance)." mated that the General had fallen under the displeasure of Government, and the concluding paragraph of Sir R. Grant's minute of the 27th April, 1837 (S. P. i. 183), wherein be states that he considers two only, out of the three Commissioners, entitled to an acknowledgment "that Government are in the highest degree satisfied with the zeal, judgment, ability, and activity which they evinced in the prosecution of the highly important and equally delicate investigation entrusted to their charge," confirms that impression. Whatever were the causes, I cannot but consider the removal of General Lodwick, who was undoubtedly inclined to take a more favourable view of the Raja's case than either of the other Commissioners, at the moment when further inquiries into th e Raja's alleged treasons were to be institutod, as unfort una t e . Ad who was ap pointed to succeed him ? Colonel Ovens, who had taken decided views of his Highness's guilt. I confess, I cannot but think this astrong measure. And who was placed in that officer's full confidence, with the view of assisting him in unravelling the supposed intrigues ? Balaji punt Nattoo, whom for so many reasons I believe to have been his Highness's implacable enemy ; who, by his own evidence before the Commission, was shown to have been the ready bearer of every slander against the Raja ; the confidant of Appa Sahib, the intriguer against his brother, and who betrayed, by that evidence, au evident desire to injure the Raja. I am bound to say, that I do not think that this step can be defended. I am not surprised at what followed, and which appears to me much to be regretted. A system of espionage— or, more properly speaking, a political inquisition—was established in Sattara. Liberal rewards and indemnities for evidence touching the Raja's supposed intrigues, had been offered on the receipt 0 Girjabaee's supposed peti tion. (Page 76, par. 9. Sattara Papers, vol. i.) This system continued to be acted upon ; evidence was pree.ured in various ways ; some gave it at once ; others more unwillingly. Nor could any person, from what occurred, fail to draw the inference, that to be a witness against the Raja was to have a title to the favour of the Bombay Government. Detentions were resorted to in cases where parties refused to give the evidence which it was supposed they could furnish, and after no very long time, the Resident summoned and imprisoned the Raja's subjects and servants in the Raja's capital, without his Highness's intervention. But I shall be asked, may not Government take the necessary measures for procuring true evidence touching the intrigues of traitors ? I would answer that considerable risk must attend the measure when a Go vernment, so vastly superior as the British, has recourse to these steps to procure information as to the supposed treason of a Prince so weak and powerless in comparison as the Raja of Sattara. People will form the opinion, and in India more readily than in most places, that the matter under inquiry is one in which Governnient is a party, and that its interests are on the side of the con viction of the accused, and will expect to be benefited or injured according to the evidence which they furnish. But, in regard to Sattara at the time then in question, there could be no mystery in the matter in the mind of any native. That Balajipunt Natoo was the enemy of the Raja, and the confidant of Appa Sahib could not be un known ; and if it were, Balajipunt would have himself promulgated it, and all who had any hatred to gratify or who wished to procure the favour of the British Govern ment, would enlist themselves as witnesses against the Raja. I have said that this would be the case, however " Q. Did you and Sew,goolam Sing compare notes to gether after each interview ?—A, We have conversed with each other on the stikect, in order that we might recollect whatever occurred, but we never met fur the pur pose of writing it down together." On the 14th day the same person is further cross-exa mined us lollows " Q. Describe how your journal was kept.—A. I wrote it by order of the Adjutant. The account of the first interview with the Dewan waz. written the morning after it occurred. The second interview, and the meeting of the Raja was also written on the following morning. I wrote it when quite alone." The discrepancy between the statements of the two wwitnesses is obvious. The witness then continues—. Se- goolum Sing was at his own house. I have frequently conversed with Sewgoolain on the subject, but. I never read it to him. I used to show it to the Adjutant, and he told me to write in English, in order not to excite Govind ltow, "repeats generally, and with great mi nuteness, what he had b4ore stated to the Commission, and corrects, if his own accord, a discrepancy of import ance between his and Sewgool tin Sing's evidence, which at the time attlactedthe attention of the Commission, by stat ing, as Seagoolam had, in the first instance, done, that the meeting with the Raja occurred in a room up stairs !" There is no mention of any precautions taken to prevent these men from communicating with each other freely, from the sth to the 9th day; and I find on the other hand, that in page 3 of General Lodwick's letter to the Court, dated 13th June, 1842, it is stated that the senior Soobadar (Sewjoolarn Sing) " was allowed full liberty to communicate and compare notes with the other native tlficer, until the limited and imperfect cross-examina tion that was gone into did take place," and this cross examination, we find from the proceedings, did not take place until the 16th day. Under these circum stances, I would ask; what is this voluntary correction of his evidence by Gooljar Missur worth ? In my opinion, nothing---indeed I am disposed to consider it an addi tional ground, for suspecting the collusion; it would have looked better, I think, had he made no voluntary cor suspicion, and this gave me great trouble." " Q. Why did you, on a former occasion, state that you had merely noted down the dates. and not the par ticulars of the interview ?--A. I did not understand the question. I thought I was asked whether I had described persons; in fact, I mistook the word tufted' fur tusweer.' " N'ow, did Sukaram Bullal, whom we have seen vestedhis e% thidenuese‘,vimthakpeolhveimr s t e o lf m a al tr e tie Go de vi po n s cl iti l ( lz c m lie did not. When ho went to Ahmednuggur, to constrain Govind Row to give evidence similar to his, he went with lies, important lies in his mouth and in his evidence ; at least he himself so declares, for on the 12th May, 1838, he admits that instead of his getting the petition written in Govind Row's house, by Mandoo Fugree, or a candi date for employment, that petition was written by Krisbnajee Sadasew Bhidey, a Brahmin of Punderpoor, (a special seat of Brahmin bigotry) in the Gosavaspoora, at the instigation of Lukshumun Punt Bhagwut ! and that it was not put into the post at Poona, as he had stated on the 17th July, but at Punderpoor ! On the 20th September, 1837, Krishnajee Sadasew Bhidey stated to Colonel Ovans that he wrote the petition at the desire of Lukshumun Punt Bhagwut, and with the cognizance of Wittul Punt Anna, and that when people were ap prehended, in consequence of the petition being sent to Government, he was to receive 1,000 rupees, though he 'insisted on having 1,200. Re does not mention the name of Sukara:n Bullal in his statement. These papers were transmitted by Colonel Ovans to Government on the 16th of August, 1838. So much for this affair. Such measures produced the fruits that might have been expected, and information of vari ous plots, including a multitude of small States, was received, but of these none were considered apparently worth pursuing; except alleged intrigues with A ppa Sahib, ex-Raja of Nagpore, then a prisoner at Joudpoor, and with the Viceroy of Goa. The discoveries were reported from time to time to the Government of India, from which a letter of rather a discouraging tendency was received, bearing date the 7th Aug., 1837. After alluding to the Raja's desire to employ Dr. Milne in pre paring a statement of his case to be laid before Govern ment, which the Governor-General was inclined to sanc tion, the letter proceeds thus : Now, turning back to the tenth day (S. P. iii., p. 116), we find Gooljar Missur cross-examined as follows " Q. How are you able so particularly to recollect the dates of the several interviews deposed to in your examina tion ?—A. I impressed it on my mlinory, knowing that it was a business in which the Government were con- cerned. I wrote down the dates of the interviews, buino particulars. My memorandum is at my house ; it is written in Hindostanee." It is evident that the witness could not have thought that he was asked whether he had described " tusweer " (persons), or whether he had written "tufseel" (particu lars). He was asked simply how he came to remember dates. He answers the question very intelligibly, and, if he made a mistake in saying that he did not write particulars, Wien he meant to say that he did not de scribe persons, the mistake is his own, and is rather sur prising in a person speaking a language with which he is familiar. However, the journal will be found not to be rection at all. Before quitting this topic, I would state that Govind How, who subsequently confessed, under cireuntstauces to which I will hereafter allude, that he was a party to the treasonable interview with the Raja (if it did occur), states, that it took place in the "choh" 14f the palace. In S. P. vol. iii., p. 28, there is a plan of the palace by Colonel Ovans, from which it will be seen that Govindßow's account of the scene of this mysterious deficient in descriptions of persons. The evidence of the SJobadar, in regard to the two interviews at the Dewan's house, is stated by the Commission to be cur rosorated almost in a providential manner by Cosia Alaloo, the Dewan's slipper-bearer. I most say that I think this person requires himself to be corroborated by Providence, which has not yet interposed in his favour. His evidence before the Commission is nothing to boast of, but, such as it is, he has subsequently entirely de stroyed it. In his evidence before the Commission (S. P. iii., 105), he says, after relating the second interview at the Dewan's house— treason, differs from both of those given by the So - obadar,.. I must seize this opportunity of observing, that though I take the liberty of commenting freely on the Report and proceedingt, of the Commission, nothing in the world is further from my intention than the design of imputing to the meinGers of the Commission, all of whom I believe to be men of honour, and one of whom is my most valued friend, of I cannot just now mention how many years' standing, anything but honest and well-intentioned error, if error shall be thought to have hen committed. It is also far from my intention to separate the three Commissioners. It his " When I kft the house (of the Dewan) to return home, THEY WERE STILL IN THE SLEEPING-ROOM, and MY HOUSE IS A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE FROM THE DE- WAN'S 101 SE." given me m uchconcerniojeetliZdifferences brought so prominently forward; consider them to be such only as might arise fromastlti they e le association of three men of hoaohr, circumstanced They commenced the inquiry, all of them believing w : re h . l at there was ground for suspicion that the Raja was t • ; as the inquiry advanced, two of them found theirg uoitplonstrengthened, the third found his weakened. It I probable h that they did not succeed in truly representing s other the ~ , tato or &lir minds—differences became o g e :•l7-ater without b,:ing comprehended, and the difficulty of accounting f u them consLantly augmented. With these few word s . shall take Jeuxe of this :subject. In commenting upon the Rrport wid proce2dings of the C l unmision, I must view it ~i, eoul • se a „, t h e production of the three gentlemen wh , );e sig4uture4 it bears, and it is a satisfaction to me And in a deposition made by him on the 22d of Sep t, 1837, anti transmitted to Government by Col. Ovans on the 24th of November, 1837, we find him stating, in direct contradiction to the foregoing-- " Afterwards (after he had, as he said, admitted Abba Mhareek at the second interview at the newan's) Rao Sahib went into the Kira (liaja's palace); after him, having called the Gharia (Bratmn Untajce) and the Soobadars, I took then, into the !VG) a." And then follows a detail orwhat he saw at the palace. He had doubtless disnovered, subsequently to the sitting of the Com aission, that he had limited his evidence very ; and it is fur from improbable that, by this time, he has remembered that he was a witness to the whole of what passed between the Raja and the Soobadars carefully the Government and the Resident might guard against procuring any but true evidence. But even thi s does not always appear to have been done. On the 24th of June, 1837, Colonel °vans recommended the removal of Govind Row to Ahmednuggur in the following terms: " 11. As it was no doubt under the impression that the release of her son could only be accomplished by making the disclosures alluded to, that the letter (Girja haee's petition), if it be genuine, was written, it follows that it his release by any other means appears possible, this statement will not be acknowledged. Considering, therefore, that the impression of Govind Row's release is so generally and firmly credited here, I have refrained at present from having any direct communication with his mother ; but I am doing all in my power quietly to ob , . Par. 6. " Iri conclusion I am directed to state the anxious wish of his Lordship in Council to learn at the earliest moment possible, what prospect there may be, under present circumstances, of throwing new light upon this subject by further investigation ; and, if the Go vernment should be in danger of becoming involved in an indefinite and inconclusive inquiry, in what mode it may best be advisable to terminate the proceedings, rather than continue them under the inconvenience which the. lapse of time, political intrigue, and the uncertainty of Indian evidence, combined with the obscurity of the case, in regard to its extent and importance, must give to them." 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MACNAGHTEN ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, TO W. H. IVATHEN, ESQ., CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OT BOMBAY. " October 2, 1837. (Political Department.) " 1. am desired by the Right Hon. the Go vernor-General of India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your several letters, dated the 30th August, and Ist and 4th ult., together with their respective ea closures, relative to intrigues at Sattara. "2. Copies of the letters to your address, dated the 7th, 21st, and 31st of July, referred to in the Acting Resident's lett er of th e 12 t h u l t ., h ave not b een furn i shed to the Governor-General in Council ; but judging from the evidence which accompanied your communications now acknowledged, his Lordship in Council has no hesi tation in stating that his worst apprehensions, as ex pressed in the concluding paragraph of my letter to your address, dated August 7, as to the ' danger of becoming involved in an indefinite and inconclusive inquiry,' have every appearance of being fully realized. " 3. The Governor-General in Council bad mainly re lied on the result of the investigation which might be instituted, consequent on the alleged petition of the Dewan's mother, for a solution of any doubts which might be entertained as to the accuracy of the conclu sions formed by the Commission on the occasion of the previous inquiry, and for something more of intelligible precision of its results. By the Report of the Commis sion, the Raja of Sattara was left subject to the imputa tion of every shade of guilt, from that of lending him self to the machinations of the evil disposed, under the influence of discontent and partial insanity, and irritated by supposed ill usage, up to that of an extensive treason, in a great degree matured, and having for its object the entire overthrow of the British power in India. Much of the evidence by which even this imperfect result was obtained, was uncertain and unsatisfactory ; and whilst his Lordship in Council was willing to place confidence in the judgment of the Commission, he felt that the case was incomplete, and that to justify the Government in any strong and final measure, further information was -- a.4103 absolutely necessary. But from all the papers whicia have since come before him, he has seen increased reason to doubt whether any certain grounds of action can pos sibly be obtained amidst the intrigues, the personal ani mosities, and the exaggerated rumours of all descrip tions, by which the investigation into the petty and ob scure details of the supposed treasonable proceedings of the Raj a h as b een surroun d e d an d em b arrasse d . " 4. The evidence relative to the alleged intercourse of the Raja of Sattara with the ex-Raja of Nagpore, as de tailed in the documents which accompanied your letter of the Ist ult., is, in the opinion of his Lordship in Council, in the highest degree suspicious. The alleged communi cation between Yellojee Bapp oo an d the ex-Raja of Nag pore, is admitted to have originated in some domestic concern. The evidence of that individual and his servant are full cf discrepancies ; and it was only after repeuted cross-examinations that they were induced to implicate the Raja of Sattara as having any knowledge of the com munications. It is remarkable that Yellojee is repre sented as having been the person through whose means the intercourse between the Raja of Sattara and the ex- Raja of Nagpore was first set on foot ; and yet the two witnesses, Abba Mureek and his servant Wittoo, deposed, that the latter was sent to Joudpore to ask whether Yellejee Bappoo sent people there. " 5. The Governor-General in Council sees little or nothing in the evidence recorded in the dOcuments which accompanied your letter of the 4th ult. to inculpate the Raja. There is no direct evidence against his Highness of any kind, as regards the supposed intrigue with the Hubshee, save that the Hubshee's Vakeel, who was a rela tive of Bulwunt Row Chitnavees. was introduced to his Highness; that the Raja read a letterand afterwards threw it into the fire, and that he received a present of cocoa-nuts from Bulwunt Row Chitnavees. Against the last named individual no criminality is established. There is nothing of a treasonable nature in the paper found concealed in the doll, and it' there was, evidence has been given to prove that he (the Chitnavees) was not the author of its contents. His Lordship in Council, of' course, attaches no weight to the unsupported rumours of intrigues in all directions, alluded to by the witnesses whose depositions accompanied your letter of the 4th ultimo. His Lordship in Council observes, that the ex pressionS contained in the 6th paragraph of your letter to the Acting Resident, that the witness Wittul Row Parisneee saw himself pcshak (clothes) " and a sword sent to the Raja from the Hubshee," would appear to imply more than was actually stated by the witness, as his Lordship in Council cannot discover that Wittul Row asserted he saw the things in question actually sent to the Raja. " 6. As for the alleged combinations with the Portu guese, and with Arabia, alluded to in the documents which accompanied your letter of the 31st ult., the Go vernor-General in Council could not but regard such plots (even had the accounts which had been furnished of them seemed less improbable than they do), to be too extravagant to be entertained for a moment by any per son in his senses; while it appears from the Report of the Commission that the Raja of Sattara is by no means deficient in understanding. " 7. The Acting Resident, in the ninth paragraph of his letter to you r a dd ress , d ate d the 12th ult., Aserves, the time necessary to bring these proceedings to a close will necessarily be prolonged. And with reference to this declaration, to the length of time which has already elapsed since this investigation commenced, and to the excitement and alarm which inquiries so extended and protracted must necessarily occasion, I am desired to re peat the suggestion contained in the concluding para graph of my letter, dated the 7th of August, and yet more strongly to urge the inconvenience and un certainty of these proceedings, and the absolute necessity of bringing them to an early termination. In the hope lessness that all further evidence will be otherwise than inconclusive, and looking to the utmost degree of crimi nality, which in any view of the testimony before the Commission may be regarded as clearly and absolutely established, looking, too, to the interval which has since elapsed in inquiries leading to no further definite and important disclo s ur es , hi s Lordship in Council would gladly find that the Right Honourable the Governor in Council is disposed to concur with him in opinion, and would close the proceedings; apprising the Raja that, although several suspicious circumstances regard ing his Highness have been elicited during the progress of this inquiry, yet the British Govern ment is unwilling, without the clearest proof of milt, to condemn any of its allies, especially one who has been so pre-eminently the object of its favour and gene rosity ; that further investigation is deemed inexpedient with reference to the general inconvenience it creates ; and that the Right Honourable the Governor in Council is therefore pleased to close the inquiry, with the ex pression of his hope that the Raja will so conduct him self for the future as to avoid the predicament (no less painful to the British Government than to his Highness) in which he has been recently placed. "8. As regards the Dewan, who is now under stood to be in confinement at Ahmednuggur, his Lordship in Council observes, that if the suggestion con tained in this letter should be adopted, the liberation of the individual in question will probably follow the ces sation of further inquiry into the the conduct of the Raja. I have the honour, &c., • (Signed) " W. H. MACNAGHTEN, " Secretary to the Government of' India." " Fort William, October 2, 1837." LETTER FROM W. H. MACNAGHTEN, ESQ., SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, TO W. H. WATHEN, ESQ., CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, BOMBAY, DATED 16TH OCTOBER, 1837. (Political Department.) " Sir,—l am desired by the Right Honourable the Governer-General of India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your several letters of the dates noted in the margin, together with their respective enclosures, on the subject of the inquiry into tile conduct of the Raja of Sattara. 2. The proceedings reported in the communications now acknowledged are not, I am desired to state, such as to meet the approbation of his Lordship in Council. " 3. That the Raja of Sattara, forgetful of all former obligations, and nettled by an alleged grievance, is disaf fected to the British Government, and that he has been led by designing people, enemies either to him or to the British Government, into acts intended to be injnrious to that Government may be conceded; but the result of the later proceedings of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council has, I am desired to add, tended rather to Weaken than to strengthen the case against him, for they prove either the extent of the false hood which is mingled with these accusations, or the • imbecility with which the Raja is capable of entertaining projects of so wild a description. Except from the statement which may possibly be made by Gorind Row, his Lordship in Council sees nothing in ail this evidence which is like') to throw light upon the conduct of the Raja, so far as it is:proper or incumbent on us to inquire into it ; and under the circumstances of recent strict duresse and expected liberty under which this evidence is to be elicited, it must be received with very considerable caution. 4. Adverting to these considerations, I am desired to state that the papers now acknowledged have strongly confirmed the Governor-General in Council in the opinion already eypressed, that this perplexed and protracted scrutiny should be at Once brought to a conclusion, or at least that all the collateral inquiries which have been in so many quarters instituted should be discontinued as soon nr practicable, it being for the real interests of the British Government, whilst it watches and represses with vigilance and firmness the active movements of insurrec tion, to disregard rumours, and even, in many cases, the realities of petty and obscure intrigues ; dependence being placed for the internal power of the empire epon its own manifest strength and the fears of the disaffected, of whom, in the very nature of things, from the trans fer of power and property, there must be many, and upon the general interests of the population, which cannot but be opposed to violent commotion. His Lordship in Council is sorry at feeling himself compelled to add, that in the present instance the idea of mistrust and insecurity on the part of the British Government may have been widely spread, from Rajpootana to Madras and Malabar, though the affair is one of no real importance to our power. " 5. Against the further prosecution of these hazard ous proceedings, the Governor-General in Council deems it incumbent upon him to interfere, so es to prevent any further aggravation cf this evil. lam desired, therefore, to convey the request of his Lordship in Council, that the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Bom bay will be pleased to abstain from all further inquiries upon collateral points, or other measures of this nature, leading, as they must do, to nothing but futile and dis creditable results. 4 . 6. The Governor-General in Council will look with some anxiety, though, un! - ler the di rcuntstances, not without suspicion, to any further confession which ho may offer to support by direct and substantial proof which may be made by Govind Row, as tending to weaken or confirm the original charge adduced against the Raja or --.-----.-_-----'"''''./ ;• 7 ' 7 f .}lf