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TIM SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, i n Ti me f or th e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELI - ERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAIIENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. . . ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night therby insuring a : TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCVLATION, at ONE CHARGE. o h their interview at the palace! I shotd not think that much faith can be reposed safely in:7cpia Maloo. I now proceed to lay before the Court sucharguments occur to me, arising from a general relic,. of the fea tures of this ease—why the motion for adjournment should not be carried, and why a full debae on the case should be allowed. The deposed Raja of Sattara was raised to the throne by the British Goverri2ent in 1819, and from that time, to the . year 1832, concocted himself so admirably, that ho was - the theme of consant 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 ; whil e his kielity as an ally was so undoubted, that the Governmeniof Bombay, in the time of Sir John Malcolm, voluntaril' relaxed the . provision of the non-intercourse article in hittreaty, so as to admit of his corresponding with- the Odin:tins in his neighbourhood. His administration was just liberal, and enlightened, but he had enemies, not from faults of his own, but in some measure in con - sequenced his very excellencies. The ,first of these was Appe Sahib, his unworthy brother. That this person was the laja's bitter enemy no one can doubt. Their disaereeaent 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 once previously in the time of Sir John Malcolm, made an attempt to in duce the British Government to confer on him half of his brother's raj, and we find him, by Balajiptmt Nattoo's evidence before the Commission, (S. P. li t . 113) giving informati o n s i x mont h s prev i ous l y, or _about April, • 1835, which no one can credit, that " His Pighness had written t.. his agent in Bombay, that if he #ils 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 crores 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 had terms." I can only say, if this were true Appa :.•7fthib would be in my eyes an infinitely greater wretch than I have believed 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 Rain otherwise than it became him to treat his brother's wife, I cannot ima g ine 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 of 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 there could be 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 talent and art, cunning, 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 Noy., 1835, observed " that there were some ru mours. o f a. pl o t . f orme d 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 falsehood of his report of the Raja' s b e i ng a b out to. j o i n i n suc h eon ! spiracy by his Big/mess 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." "I ascertained," continues Gen. Loth% ick, " 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 .1%.5 once entangled in a conspiracy ! His Ilm" fi-"ess,M - ow - tver; forum...a y varier of them, and the Resident, in muse- that one of these gentlemen is present to hear the re marks which I have felt, and may feel myself, bound to make. And here, I must observe, there is a fundamen tal objection to the 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 accused was not allowed to he 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 Commissioners 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 defence, as he would 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, and calculated to defeat the object for which the Commission is. as sembled ;" and them the matter was allowed to rest for the time, the General not requiring, I suppose, the im mediate transmission to Government 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 Raja 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 immediate 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 ally 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 assenthling, 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 evidence before the Commission. Surely, here was evidence sufficient if true to criminate his Highness. If lam 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 taken, and then the trial have commenced be fore the Commission, the Raja having the privilege of attending or sending a substitute from the beginning— for 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 if suggested to the Raja would not have been maintained —for, 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 either 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 fur 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 condemna- tion which the Commission • passed upon him. His 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 inns rezvived on the 9th day_ to make 'to his Highness. How momentous to him were these twelve days. During this period the examination of the whole of the witnesses against him, with the ex ception of four queStions put to the Soobadar Gooljar Missur, and further. examination of the worthless wretch Untajee, had taken place, and all the discrepancies, inco• 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, thexesult - ayoUld 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 10th day of the proceedings Sewgoolam Sing is cross-examined as follows : "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 De:van, and wrote down what had oc curred. We frequently conversed together on the sub ject. lam nut certain, bat 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 : quence, set down the information as false. The .follow ing are proofs of the enmity existing between both Chintamun Row and the Colapore Baja 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,hedlas taken up and written against in the spirit of a poietnic. 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 Cbittavees 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 that my ex cellent friend, Mr. Willoughby, states that neither him.- self nor Colonel Ovens knew Balajipunt Nattoo r a viously to the assembling of the Sattara Commission. I consider this much to be deplored, for I caqnot 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 IZaja from the dangerous course which he represents that he was. pursuing. So much towards showing that he was the Raja's enemy. The following are reasons why it. might be expected that he should be so. Ist. Because the. Raja had rejected him as his Dewan, place which he was desirous of tilling, and which he now occupies under Appa Sahib. 2d. Because he was a leading Brahmin, and belonged to a caste 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 Swamec 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 feelings towards Balaji punt Natoo I . should imagine partook largely of fear ; bat if he thought him his friend. 1 should consider the fact merely a proof how egregiously his Highness was deceived by his artful enemy. -The third party hostile to the Raja were the Brahmins generally. The Raja himself did not disguise his dislike anti 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 Br2h mins ; and the violent religious dispute which arose be tween the Brahmins on the one hand, and the Furbhoos " Q. Did you and Sewgoolam Sing compare notes :o gether after each interview ?—A. 'We have conversed with each other on the subject, in order that we might recollect whatever occurred, but we never met for the pur pose qf writing it down together." On the 14th day the same person is further cross-exa mined as follows : valued, addressed letters, in 1833, to the Honourabh Mountstewart Elphinstone and Captain Grant Duff, ane General Robertson,.two of the Residents at his Court, re questing that they would state their sentiments upon the point. These he transmitted to the Bombay Government, and that Government forwarded them to the Court of Direct Ors. The Court, in September. 18:4, returned these letters, with an intimation that they did not de sire to be the medium of the Ilaja'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 cam,. 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 Nva 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 imagicia..to differ materially from that of the jagheer of the Punt SucfieliT It is positively stated, by the Raja Vakeel, and I think that I heard the thing stated in India long • beforQ 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 Suchew'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 deeply 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 he much ' valued, and after a decision in his favour by the same authorities, he 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 sending an Embassy to the Court of Director;, 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 mindeould be occu pied with any such schemes. Treasonable plots, when entertained, usually occupy a man's mind pretty com pletely. I should not expect to see an extensive political intriguer engage in a Chancery suit. 'lt was at this period, 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 Hig-hness for saying that the Governor had not informed him that another reference had been made to the Court regarding the jagheers, that the charge was brought against the Raja of his having attempted to se duce the Soobadars 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 Raja, and, indepettdently of this objection, the evi 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 1L 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 loth: Raja, it would not he expedient to adopt extreme measures against his Highness." However, While the Tsr matt., sideration a petition to Government, dated the 13th of December, 1836, was received in Bombay, by post. on the 6th of March, 1837, purporting to have come from Girjabaee, the mother of the titular Dewan Goyim' Row, then in confinement, as a State prisoner, at Poona, imputing various plots and conspiracies of a treasonable nature to the Raja, and confessing to the guilt of her son, as an agent under compulsion. A (lark chapter follows: —General Lodwick was removed from the Residency in a manner certainly betraying great di3ingennousness. 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, Of a free and friendly intercourse, in winning front ,his * Highness that confidence which he had, however unreasonably or tm 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 tho delay which had taken place in instituting an inquiry into the matter of the petition of Girjabaee " originated in our conviction that this inquiry coup not with safety be entrusted to the late Resident." These reasons inti mated that the General had fallen under the displeasure of Government, and the conclnding par.graph of Sir R. Grant's minute of the 27th April, 1837 (S. i. 183), wherein he states that he considers two only, out of the three Commissioner:, 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 Lodwiek, who was undoubtedly inclined to take a more favourable view of the Raja's case than either of the other Commissioners, at the moment whe;, further inquiries into the Raja's alleged treasons were to be instituted, as untbrtunate. And who was ap pointed to succeed him ? Colonel ()vans, 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 assistity; him in unravelling the supposed intrigues ? 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 tellowed, 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 intrigue:, haul been olThred on the receipt of. Girjabaee's . supposed p.ti riot). (Page 76, par. 9. Sattara Papers, Vol. 1.) This systmit el ill till IICa to he acted upon ; evidence was pro('nrcd 111 Various ways some gave it at once ; others more unwillin;ly. N' would any person, from Ivhat occurrod, fail to draw the inference, that to Ins a witness aqainst the l lnja was; to have a title to the favour of the U. , ”1 1,1 r iov.-rnmont. P , .tention , !,, it% i.:1,;('!, where p.triie, rc1e..0.1 g ( , 64101ice hi k .ll 11 St!ppolsvd i•v •11, dnWI after tan 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 Go , ind Row's release, which threatens to throw such seriou; obstacles in the way of this important inquiry, I beg most respectfully to propose that tha Dewan be sent immediately, under guard, Ahmednuggur, and placed in strict confinement there: that lie only be attended by his own servant, and that all ocher 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 Goyim! Row's return are without foundation ; and, this being felt; his mother and his other friends may be induced to come 14rward and disclose all they know, as the only means. of assisting him. But whatever may be the result,' the mieet of this step should certainly he tried without loss of time." " 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 was written the morning after it occurred. The secoud interview, and the meeting of the Raja was also written on the following morning. I wrote it when quite ohne." Govind Ras 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 visited by the Bare and two persons in her confidence, and that having read to them the papers purporting to have been sent by -Girjabaec, '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 to) in which he declared that he had caused the petition to be written by the hand of Mandoo Fugree, who Col. Ovans stated was " a Brahmin living in their own house," viz., that of Govind Row. Sukaram Bullul, how ever, in an additional paragraph to his statement, says that he haUome as i a visitor, and that then he went off m 'lmediately to a-itistariee: . :11adfiewlee - Gungadhnr, the • base's other confidant. on the 25th July, made a deelara 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 llindostan (the northern part of India), and that it was on this Recount that he was employed to write the petition for fear of the Itlaharaj. On the 24th July, the Government, at the recommen dation of the Resident, that the Judge of Ahmednue..,gur, he instructed to admit Sukaram Bullal to Govind Row, who Balajipunt Nattoo, in his evidence before the 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 &harm Bullal left Sattara the 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 Ah mednuggur, and • allowed to occupy quarters in the town ; and he suggests that this step ",should not be taken until the arrival' of Sukaram Bullul at Ahmednuggur, and that he should. he 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 great mistake, if we allow that the 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 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 confirm the statement of Sukaram Bullal, whether it were true or false? for 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 Bullal's pleasure, the case becomes worse still. • Surely no value can be placed on: evidence so got, nor on any procured in an inquiry 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 country, 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 a 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 Baja. The next papers in this history, are the following letter from the Acting Session judge of Ahmednuggur, dated the 24th August, 1837, and an inclosure The discrepancy between the statements of the two witnesses is obvious. The witness then continues—" Sew goolarn Sing was at his own house. I have frequently conversed with Sewgoolam 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 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 THE ACTING SESSION JUDGE OF AIIMEDNUGGUR, TO W. H. WATHEN, ESQ., CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT. •' AhMeddilllgglit Adawlot, Aug. 24, 1837. that, S h i e l s i h r a e r o e t h h e e honour Acting idzi t a, i ty i e,s, : s l ,j o h(ti li i n diel o tsf u ra • t l tat, e cts d e g anpte e tera t i } s i so : : r ets e ro c i ii oia p rs t ., ult. ; and to inform You in y B charge, si,ic i l l e as to t.o ( r ; m ov : ii 3 (l , nephew ; and that I have also, at Snkaram's solicitation, permitted his, Govind Row's (younger) brother, to ac company him in their visits. Their object has been to induce hint to disrbse what he knew regarding - the hte proceedings of the Sattara Court, in which they have been successful. " 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, lie says. in Shrwun Vud, between 27th Au g ust and 11th September, 1836, but the exact date he does not remember. ' . " 4. Every attention has been paid to . Govincl Row's comfort since he came here. He now seems willing to communicate to me all he knows, and I have no doubt qf being able to obtain from him ANY 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 sec no reason to attach any importance.—l have the honour, &c. " B. Hurt', Acting Session Judge. " (INCLOSURE IN THE ABOVE.) " Translation of a Tad (statement) from. Govind Row Wittul, as delivered to the Acting SeSsion. Judge of Ahmednuggur ; dated 24th August, 1824. " I make the following representation, that the cir cumstances (therein contained) may become known to the (British) Government, that Untr,jee Wagh (lid bring the two Soobadars of the Pultun (Native Regithent) to me. They were once taken to Alaharaj (the Raja of Sattara), and the Maharaj taking them privately aside, did speak to the Soobadars :llama (forming) friendship, and other matters. These communicatiens 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 Briti s h) Government was, that it was my wish to preserve the friendship between the Maharaj'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, Orans Sahib (Lieut.-Colonel Ovans), then 1 will make a detailed statement of the whole of these matters. I am (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 engeance)." Now, did Sukaram Bullal, whom we have seen vested thus with pow,r to make Govind Row confirm his evidence, make himself a true deposition ? Sir, he did not. When he went to Ahinednuggur, to constrain Goyim' 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 gettin g the petition written in Govind llow's house, by Maltdoo Fugeee, or a candi date for employment, that petition was written Itv Sada-ee• Prf , hn ,, n f,f• !!. big•,)ti•v I file ill , ii4111)!I I,i . it 4 1 ; .-I , rt . llut lid, Hit pOSt. :i1 I . o,ll‘tt, uc it' 11,1 MI I ! .11111. Hi t Sl , l ,t., tt it' , l% 1 . 1 tit itlo . l* , V:1114 Ibt.l 11. 111 , ti, "41 OH I, tis Led -.hid - Vali; him. (;), tl,, of WiLtill Punt Anna, and that when people were ap prehended, in consequence of the petition being. sent to Government., he was to receive 1,000 rnpecs, thongh he insisted on having 1,200.. Ile dot's not mention the name of Sukara is in his statement. These p a p ers were transmitted' by Colont , l (lvans to Government on the 16th of August, 1838. So much for Allis affair. Such • measures_ produced the fruits that might have been expected, and inf . , a-in:ilium of vari• ons ,plots, including a multitude of small States, was received, hut of these none. were considered apparently wertit pursuing. except alleged intrigues wi t h A into Sahib, ex-Bala of' Nagpore, then a prisoner at Jotulpoor, and witli the - Viceroy of Goa. The discoveries were reperte(l from time to time to the Government, of India, from which a letter of rather a di:emit-aging tendency was received, bearing date the 7th Aug., 153;. After alluding to the Raja's desire to employ .1)1.. Milne in pre paring a statement of his case to be laid before.Govern uncut, which the Governor-General was inclined to sanc tion, the letter proceeds thus : • , Par. 6. " In conclusion I ant 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 now light upon this subject by further investigation ; and, it' the Go vecnment shouhl be in danger of becoming i nvo l ve d i n an indefinite mid inconclusive Inquire, in what mode it may best be advisable to terminate the proceeding's, 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." Notwithstanding' this caution, the Bombay Govern question. I thought I was asked whether I had described ;ersons ; in fact, I mistook the word tilfice/' for `ilsweer.• 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 memory, knowing that it was a business in which the Government were con cerned. I wrote down the dates of the interviews, but no particulars. My memorandum is at my house ;it is written in Hindostanee." and other castes on the other, and in which the Raja was considered to wrong the Brahmins, engend ere d a f ee li ng of hostility on the part of the Brahmins towards the Raja, the strength of which it is difficult to conceive. The three heads of this league of religionists were the Swamee of Stinke6hwur, Chin mum n l:ow of saterlee, and Nilkunt Shastree of Poona. These were all notoriously hostile to the Ihuja on religion , r 0 .66.1.,. tll inrefrrate Mr. puid.ip. and proved 1116:1`4 . I , r th, Gnieowsr in his ; and iii . i t' and polenties. tiTo: alw,y, been t,, hi , llittor"• 44 •1110 , 10 , s find it eroflitpd that 111,. .1; , ,"1 , t in in tri4twb with the Swaine, , , 11at in possession ot:evidence likely to be deeply detrimen tal to his llighness, evaded furnis,hing it to GovernMent. though it is admitted that stick was his hostility to,the Raja, that he tried, by . means of infor mat i on which he had, or pretended to have, to frighten his I li!;lanoss into his views in the religious fend betwen n the lirahinins and the other castes, nrbielt Ire did succeed in th,ing. These are the enemies, Appa',.Sahib, B a h,;; ti 141, and the Brahmins, whose .arts and unwearied malignity, aided by tie too ready belief of the British authorities, in charges against tho7depoged 14+ja. and their refusal to give him a hearing, have occasioned the mulenthation and dethronement of that much-injured Prince. It:has been stated that up to the year 1832 the utmost har mony, cordiality, and confidence prevailed between the Bombay Government and that of Ids Highness. In that year the Raja's jurisdiction over a portion of the jagheers of the Punt Suchew, one of his Ilighness'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 ant right in saying that from 1819 to 1832 his Ilighne3s'sjurtsdiction over this tract had always been exercised without dispute ; the claim to the jnris diction on the part of the Company was ' howeVer, now advanced' by the deputy agent for Sirdar, in the Dec can, who iii noticing it observes, " I am supported in all I have said by the opinion of Balajipunt Natoo, who, as Mr. Elphinstone's confidential native agent, superin tended at Sattara the preparation of the treaty and schedule, on' which the Raja founds his pretension." The Bombaf,Government decided the question against the Baja, who, therefore, like an hottest straightforward man, deprived, as he considered, without just cause, of that to which he was entitled, and - which he - highly It is evident that the 11:)1 hate thought (hot he , Alts asked whether he had (leseriliA lu z weer (perm's), or whether he bud written pprijeti tarS). }l3 W'S asktA.,imply. how he came. toretnember 40c.. Ile answ e r., the question very intelligibly, and, if be mide a mistake in, 6uying that he did not wri:e particulars, when he meiint to sty that lie did net de scribe persons, the mistake is his own, and is rather sur prising in a person speaking a language with which he is f am ili a r. However, the journal will be found not to be deficient in descriptions of persons. The evidence of the Seobadar, in regard to the two interviews ut the Dewan's house, is stated by the Cmninission to be cor roborated almost in a providential manner by Cosia natio, the Dewan's slipper-bearer. I must 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 us ic is, he has subsequently entirely de stroyed it. In his evidence before the Commission (S.P. iii., 105), ho says, after relating the second interview ut the I)ewan's house— Oki : m i l • 1; 'l.ll‘ ill tilt' ert vitt , i I I •4 1,0 • .I,V When I Ifft the house (of the Dewan) to return home, THEY WERE STILL IN THE SLEEPING-ROOM, and MY HOUSE IS A CONSIDERABLE DISTANCE FROM TILE DE WAN'S lIOUSE," 1 4.1'11.14`Hi And in a deposition made by him on the 22d of Sep tember, 1837, and 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 l)ewan's) the Rao Sahib went into the IVara (Raja's palace); after him, haring called the Gharia (Bramin Untajee) and the Soobadars, I took thew into the Willa." And then follows a detail of what he saw at the palace. lie had doubtless discovered, subsequently to the sitting of the Commission, that he had limited his evidence very foolishly ; and it is far from improbable that, by this time, he has remember e d th a t he was a witne s s t o the whole of what pus.sed LOA:vett . the Baja and the Spolnalars the o .• touching the intrigues Ldtraitors ? I would answer that. considerable risk must attend the measure when a Go vernment, so vastly superior as . the British, ha; recourse to these steps to procure infiinriation as to the supposed treason of a Prince so weal: and poWerless in comparison as the Raja r fif Sattara. Peo,ile will for k u i the o pi n i on . and in India in or:- remlUy than in Most places, that the matter under inclitirr is one in which Government is a party, foul that its interests. are on the, slay o f the com vietion or the aceused, and : Will expget to •be benefitcd or _i n j ure d acco rding to the evidoneo Which they furnish. But, in regard to Se tiara at the time then in question, there c ould be no mystery in the matter in the mind of any native. That lialajipunt Xatoo was the enemy of the Raja, and the confidant of Apps Sahib could not be nu - kaown.; awl if it were, BalajTunt 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 theniselves as witnesses against the Raja. I have said that this-would be the case, however carefully the Government and the Resident might guar.' against procuring any but true evidence.- But even tliis does not always appear to have been done.. (hi the 24th of .1 one, - 1837, Colonel Ovans recommended the remova of Govind Row to Ahmednuggur in the following terms: 11. Asir was no doubt under the impression that the release, of her seta could. only be accomplished by making the disclosures alluded to, that the letter ((iirja lace's petition), if `it be genuine, was written, it follows that if his release by any other means appears possible, this statement wit'. not be acknowledged. Considering, tlierefcre, that the impression of Govind Row's release is so generally and &illy credited here, I haye refrained at present from havirg any direct communication with his j but I all/doing all in my power quietly to ub- THE DEPOSED RAJA of ATTARA. The following eloquent speech deli the India House, w nate Prince came un prietors. It is of gre the affairs of In will attention : Fowerful, argumentative, and 'd by .3.1 r. Charles Norris at the treatment of this unfortu the 'consideration of the Pro ngth,- but those interested in d'many facts deserving their • Mr. Chairman, I rise fort* purpose of offering to the attention of the Court varikits reasons which present themselves to me why the motio of adjournment should not be carried, and why aifull de eon the case of the ikEtde posed Raja sh ou ld- b e all ow d e place. In doing so, I 1 , 4 mean in the first instance: 4 l,o refer to the Report and proceedings of the Commission which have already been largely commented upon by e Proprietor who ha s just sat down (M r . Th om p son ). 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 Soobadars declare that they re ceivedfrom the hand of t'ie 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 Raja, do - not include this presentation of pan. The - Soobadars,- as I have said, swore to it, and they forwarded to their officer the pan which they said they had re ceived. There is - therefore no possibility of mistake here. The evidence of the Soubadars 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 B 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 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 toleep them. The leaves were fine, and even superior 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 terial • a circumstance, regarding which there could be no ' mistake, could be disbelieved witheut utter destruction to the credit of 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 many. 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 false 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 Sentgool tm Sing saying (p: 92, yid. iii., Sattara Papers), " Going on a few paces, we arrived at a narrow staircase, which we ascended. The Dewan went first, Untajce second, I third, and Gooljar fourth, and entered a good sized room, where we saw the Raja sitting, and smoking a hooka with a 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 CointhisSion, 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." Ido not wonder at that. lam only surprised that the utmost distrust of the veracity of the Soobadars : was not at once engendered in the minds of the Commissioners, and that they did not instantly - take measures for keeping them strictly separate, and proceed to that further 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 mile from the Raja's palace. Why might not the one Soobadar have been required at once to conduct one of the members of the Commission to the upper room, where the treason, he said, was committed, and the other then, in like manner, have been required to point out the lower 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, which 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 Soobadar Gooljar Missur, when. : called before the Commission to be confronted with Govind Row, "repeats generally, and with great mi nuteness, what he had bsfore stated to the Commission, and corrects, of his own accord, a discrepancy of import- • ance between his and Sewyool ini Sing's evidence, which at the time attractedthe attention of the Commission, by stat ing, as Sewgoolam 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 Lodwieles letter to the Court, dated 13th June, 1842,' it is stated that the senior •Suobadar (Sewjoolam Sing) " was allowed full liberty to communicate and compare notes with. the other native qfficer, until the limited and imperfect cross-examina tion dint was gone into did take place," and time cross examination, we find from the proceedings, did not take place until the 18tis day. .Under these eirentn stances. I would ask, what is this r.luntary corr ,, tion Of ,his evidence, by Gooljar sue Worth ? In my oeint.m, nothing—indeed J sin disposed to consider it a e Hli tiona I ground, foe, suspecting the colinsion; it. woo fil 1140` looked better, 1 think, glad he iii td. , .; no voluntary coy - reetion at all. Before quitting thiS topic, I would gate that Govind Rois , who subsequently confessed, under circumstances to which 1 will hereafter allude, that lie was a party to the treasonable interview with the. Raja (if it did occur), states, that 'it took place in the " oho/c" of the palace. In S. I'. vol. iii., p. 28, there is a plan of the palace by Colonel Ovans, from which it will be seen that Govind Row's account of the scene of this mysterious treason, differs from both of those given by the Soobadars. I must seize this opportunity of observing, that though I take the liberty of commenting freely on the Report and proceedings of the Commission, nothing in the world is further from my intention than the design of imputing to the members of the Commission, all of whom' 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 been committed. It is also far from my intention to separate the three Commissioners. It has given me much concern to see their differences brought so prominently forward; I consider them to be such only as might arise from the association of three men of honour, circumstanced as they were. They commenced the inquir i y-, all of them believine• that there was b (-round for suspicion th at t h e Raja was 'guilty ; as the inquiry Lis s tr " i ' t e l a y k i e •e n pts e advanced, two of them found their opinion strenethened, did nthoitrd agog fOu e n e d a n l t t in i; probable that they ... to each other the state of, their minds—differences became greater without being comprehended, and the difficulty of accounting for them constantly augmented. With these few words I shall take leave of this subject. lii commenting upon the Report and proceedings of the Commission, r must view it of course as the production of the three gentlemen Whose signatures it bears; and it is a satisfaction to me '✓ ~-~~~~ meat persevered in the investigation, and further reports of the progress made produced the two following letters from the Governor-General, dated the 2d and 16th Oc ., tober , 1837 : LETTER FROM W. H. MACNAGHTEN 1.15 Q., SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, TO W. H. WATHEN, ESQ., CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE•GOVERNMENT OF•DOMBAY. " Octolser:2, 1.837. (Political Department.) :-• . • "1. Sir,—l am des!red 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 en , 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 letter of the 12th ult., have not been furnished to the Governor-General in Council ; but judging from the evidence which accompanied your communications now acknowledged, his Lordship in C o uncil 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 had mainly re lied on the result of the investigation which might be instituted, consequent on the alleged petition of. the Dewan's mother, f or a so l ut i on 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 Meld - try, and for something more 91 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 W the machinations of the evil disposed, under the influence of discontent and partial insanity, and iltritated 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 feltthat the case was incomplete, and that to justify the Government in any strong and final measure, further information was absolutely necessary. But from all the papers which have since come before him, he has seen increased reason to doubt whether any cert a i n groun d s o f a cti on can pos sibly be obtained amidst the intrigues, the personhl 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 preceedings of the Raja has been surrounded and embarrassed. "4. The evidenen,Mativerto the alleged intercourse of ' the Raja of Sattara with thAx-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 vommuni cation between Yellojee Bappoo and 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 of discrepancies ; and it was only after repeated cross-examinations that they were, induced to implicate the Raja of Sattara as having any knowledge of the com munications. It is remarkable that - Yellotee 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, Abbe! Martel( and his servant Wittoo, &posed, that the latter was sent to Jondpore to ask whether Yellojee Bappoo sent people there. • _, ... "3. Thei/overnor:General in Council sees lit or nothidg in the evidence recorded in the documents is hich 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 IN Nth the Hubshee, save that the Hubshee 's Vakeel, who was a rela tive of 13n1wunt Row Chitnavees, was introducCd to his Highness; that the Baja read a letter and afterwards threw it into the fire, and that he received a present of cocoa-nuts from Ihilwunt 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 if 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 Parisnees saw himself poshak (clothes) " and u sword sent to the Raja from the Hubshee," would appear to imply more titan 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 he 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 your address, dated the 12th ult., observes, the time necessary to bring these proceedings to 'a close will necessarily be prolonged. And with refertence to this declaration, to the length of time which has already elapsed since this inveetig:ttion 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 piwa 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 furtlier,detinite and important disclosures, his Lordship in CoUnt4l 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, vet the British 'Govern ment is unwilling, without the clearest proof of guilt, to condemn any of its allies, (specially 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 itv-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 Ahmedniiggur, his Lordship in Council observes, that if the suggestion ron tained in this letter should lin adopted, the liberation of the individual in question will probably follow the ces sation of further inquiry into the the conduct of the It: I have the honour, &c., (Signed) " W. 11. MACNAGIITEX, " Secretary to the Governunait of India." Fort William, October 2, 1837." LETTER FROM W. 11. MACNAGIITEN, ESQ.,. SECRETARY To GoYERNMENT, TO W. IL SATIRES, ESQ., dim} SECRETARY To GOVERNMENT, BOMBAY, DATHI) 16 . ra ocTonEn, 1837. (Political Department.) " Sir,—l am desired by the Right H onour abl e th e Governor-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 the conduct of the Raja of Sattarn. " 2. The proceedings reported in the communications now acknowledged are not, I am desired to state, such ILS to meet the approbation of his Lordship in Council. " .. That the Raja of tiattara, t,rgetfel . of all former obligations, and nettled by an alleged grievance, is di s arm `tested to the British Government, and that he has been led by designing people, enemies either to bins or to the British Government, into ae:s intended to-be injurious 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 front the statement which may possibly be mate by his Lordship in Council sees nothing in all this evidence which is likel3 to throw light upon the env:duet of the Neje, so far as it is proper or incumbent on us to inquire into it ; and under the circumstances of recent strict dere,,, and expected liberty under which • it 101,1 1 ,,- • Viith vs 15 vo 4. .Id , tlt..: lodge(T.Lpli- , tots4g,:.7 tilt 1 ; Conncil in tilt: opinion . :hi, i.e - rfol,x(rd tirotriwled • hr • I . • •.1!;:lif til i offiiNtf•iftl' be.ve Letzn hi SO many qu:lrters instituted should be discontinued as Aonn pinetieithle, it being. for the real interests of the. Brili.h ilinvermnent, whilst it ‘watchris and represses with •1 . .1.1 tiro and firmness the active m ovements o f insurrec tion, to disregard rumours, aml even, in many eau's, the tai' petty and oh , eure intrigi o : &penitence hying plrxed or the internal power of the empire - Ppon its own ma ttil,q strength and the fears of the disaffected, of whom, in the very nature (Jr thing, front the trans fer of power and property, there lutist be .many, and up it the general interests of the population. which cannot but lie opposed to violent commotion. I lis Lordship in Is sorry at feeling himself compelled to add, that in the present instance the idea of mistrust and insecurity On the paii of the British Government may have been widely spread, from IZajpootana to Madras and Malabar, though the atfa'.r is one of no rant importance to our power. Against. the fitrther prosecution of these hazard ous proceedings, the Governor-General in Council deems it incumbent upon him to interfere, so as to prevent any further aggravation of this evil. 1 am.desired, therefore, to convey the request of his Lordship. in Council, that the night 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, results., :is they must do, to nothing but futile and dis credit:ti 6. The Governor-general in Council will look with some anxiety, though, under the dircutustances, not without suspici o n, to oily further confession which he may offer to support, by direct and substantial proof which& may ix! made by Govind now, as tending-to weldor or confirm the ori;;ina charge adduced itgitinst the . Raja or 7 — ^ligi!Nor; .2, 1 2- 4 1E 30 E Elirolio! 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