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01 d i - 47 I 1 ,- ' 'A 1 , i' '' .. :I V ... fr .I _ 1 1 -- ..., 7 ''' 14 ).--; . . - ' • ' ~,,40. 4, • ( ILll 7 l l llO l# _.... 1 ~ • 410 . / 4 . s. Pi . 5 4. - . grr —e 's.. O.VI. - 711 .1 . I Ci‘' 4P.. ' ' / 4 4 3 ^ 'll. cv . .. .......;4..,..„ , .z..., .‘ ~,,,,, , ... t ., 04 .4.,.:_„;! : ,..—_-,,._.„,•,...,‘ • . , • _, 4 ,- ~ I; . ..7.,, s,•—\\,s;.__.:_,„ 7 - • \*4-, . 1 _ •':,,, • 1,.. L' tL 41 .4 . Osnat, ,fr \' ... e• W 1,4, 1,7 '-'-`-' - 144 - . , n . ,a' 4 ';'''-----yer--- .__.,....„...0.„,_., ...._ ~..., 9, . ~ A ...,, , , - ..,, 1 %.,X. Vor , ' 4 ' . .*S-SPi.& - > - ''' '.'' l' 1..„_-___ -,- ',..e,( cy'-',:"-;,c450 .,,,L...L . \ ,..... .. 7 1r . ‘ , O - kit- c ~-, • , ' ' -Z.'-'_','' . _ i CONFERENCE. NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. OFFICES, 11, POULTRY, LONDON. Ferua 25, 1850. , Pursuance of the re commen d a ti on of n meet b ry ing of Reformers held in the city of London, on Thursday, December 20, 1849 (Sir J o sh ua Walmsley, 31. P., in the chair), to hold a Conference of the Friends of Reform from all parts of the kingdom, the Council have decided that th e C ONFERENCE shall be held in CROSI3Y it 'ILL, Ilis hopsgate-street, on TUESDAY, the 23d, and WLDNESDAY, the 24th of April next, the sittings to commence at eleven . i'clock in the fo renoon. The objects of the Conference will. s 3 o e receive reports from delegates in reference to the progress the Reform M ovement, to devPie means of carrying out with P t romptitude and vi gour the objects of the Association, and to • qcoMplete the ar rangements for realising the fund of 10,0001., re- Thor e f the pr esent year's operations. e Kentiernen eligible to a' tend the Conference will be : The Members of Parliament who support Mr. Ilume's motion. m , Those elected National or Comitteeswho have a _lopted p rin ciples of the Reform Assoc m iation. OfTithcefwermouz ,il, requests that imm e di a t e steps b e ta k en b y th e F r i en ds niche ppoint representatives, whose names should be fur t ZIl to the Secreta - y as soon as the nominations are made. T) Conference will close with a SOIREE at the CITY of 25th ON TlVERN, llislivnatastreet, on TUUDSDAY EVENING, the ter, oof April, at Seven o'clock. Tickets may be had by the Mem , each:the Association on application at the Ounces, price, 2s. Gil. r • ; . 1 • ^ "*' 1, N 19, 1850, ttli V 1 :110 •• ° ,17,9621 LONDON, FRIDAY APRIL [PRICE SD. PARTNER WANTED.—Any Gentleman of buiiness habits, and who can command from 10,6001. to 15,0001., may find an eligible investment in a very old established, sate, and vi ry ♦aluable manufacturing and lucrative trusiness. Principals only, or their Solicitors, rniy apply to Messrs. Jcnkin son, sweetitv, and Jemkinson, 29, Lombard-street. THE SOVEREIGN PRINCES OF I DIA. consideration." Now there was an irstaaee of 'po sitive assertion by the Government of India— that Hindoo princes bad, by law, a right to adopt not merely an heir to their private property (as asserted in the case of Sattara), but a suc cessor to their sovereigntie3. It was said that the object of the reference to legal authority was to ascPrtain whether the plan of providing for the succession "would consist ei:h those rules and prin- herence under other circumstances than the present to the line of conduct now prescribed to you." There they had the germ of those pretensions which were shortly afterwards fully avowed. There they had an unmis takeable hint of the intention of the Governor-General to interfere with the succession, in the eventof the death of Seindiah without heirs by blood or by adoption. But this caution come too 180—the widow's adoption of the next heir by blood was recognised; but, in communi ca'ing the recognition, the Governor-General, assumed a position aid used a langua..,e which was quite novel in the intercourse between the two state by treaty. In 1804, they first came into contact With it. They came into contact with Jerwut Rao Holkar ii 1805, when they made up the.difference by treaty which bound them to continue in perpetual friendship with the Holkar state. In 1816 they came in contact with his -successor, and after stripping him of half his posses sions, they made another t r eaty with him by which they granted him absolute possession of his territory, whether he bad heirs or and they had no more right to dispose of it in the manner they did, than they would have to dis pose of the kingdom of Denmark if the present king died without heirs. He had told them the object of the Go vernor-General in setting aside Martund Rao and all his heirs to the Holkar state. Let him now show theta what was the pretext f.r all this. The British Govern ment having in the first instance recognised Martund Rao, the adopted heir of Mulhar Rao, and afterwards having recognised his heir by blood, Hurree Rao, and in succession to him Kundi Rao, it would have been inconsistent, the Governor-General said, to have recog nised Martina' Rao a second time. Now, he asked them, which was most conspicuous in these transactions —their enormous justice or their odious hypocrisy? The next proceeding was to declare themselves the rulers, lords paramount of the state, and to degrade the once powerful sovereignty of Holkar into the position of a jugadeer, limiting the succession to heirs male of the body and thus depriving the sovereign of the valu able privilege of adoption which he had previously en joyed.—(Hear, hear.) This was done under the usual profession of scrupulous good faith. The British Go vernment informed the Holkar of its earnest desire Aid SELL, HORNE, and Co., Wholesale V Tea and Coffee-dealers, No. 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. invite the attention of families, hotel-keepers, and other large con sumers, to the peculiar system of their establishment, which is to supply them on the same terms as the trade, at the lowest whole sale price. Price list and samples forwarded free. A single pound and upwards sent free within five miles of town. Six pounds and upwards forwarded free to any part of England.—Address Mansell, Horne, and Co., 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. MEETING AT THE EAST INDIA HOUSE. A special general Court cf the Directors of the East Corn pang was held on Wed aesday at thel:,dia House, Leadenhall- tree', at twelve o'clock, at the desire of nine proprietors of East India stock, as expressed in the fol lowing letter:— Ey order of the Council, TIIOMAS BEGGS, Secretary. ciplcs of law which are bindint; a7ike upon all Hin - doos, whether prince or peasant." The Pandits having pro nounced the adoption to be valid, the Government of India, in communicating . to the father the recognition of his adopted son as heir to the principality of Kota., took particular care to explain to the Raja that the delay which had occurred in ranking it arose entirely from a de dre to satisfy itself that the adoption was strictly legal. The head of the Scindiah state was an absolute . . CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT (NEW ZEALAND) PUBLIC LIBRARY. TR T he Bishop o f the Sett lement, US and TIES. the following Colonists : John Robert Godley, Esq. Lie utenant -Colonel James Campbell. Edmund Bellairs, Esq. henry Chapman, Esq. The colonists proceed log Llon. Sec —W. C Britton, sq. .to settle . ', at Canterbury are collecting a butlone Y for th e use of the S e ttl ement, and they hereby solicit contra to _, oinof bo ks from su c h of their countrymen ag may be disposed . „ o confer ring upon thi s new colony of England the a d vantage It 7"ng from th e outset a store of general literature. tr?s requested that communications may be addressed to the ornarY Secretary, at the Colonists' Rooms, I A, Adephl. terrace, AmPle Infern:lotion concerning the plans and proceedings of andthe _p r i ce 6 ',1 11 Is contained in the " Canterbury Papers," • each, published by Parker, West Strand. • Nos. 1 2, A BSOLUTE SALE OF SHAWLS: AND MANTLE TURNER and COMPANY, 27 and 28, CRAWFORD-STREET, 27, 28, RAKER -STREET, Will offer for SALE, on Mon ay next, the Stock of HENRY ROBERTA, of Ludgate-hill, Shawl and Mantle Warehouseman, at Hal the Price charged by any Shawl house in London, viz., ilareze Scarfs, every colour, frxn Bs. I ld. to lle. lid. ; also Paisley Long Shawls, and Square Lyons Cashmeres, Printed Cashmeres,&c., at Ruinous Prices. Mantles in Watered Silks, Glace Satins, Gro- Royale, &c., at Prices from Is. lld. ,to One Guinea. Really worth three times the money. OBSERVE.—TCTRICEE, and COMPANY, 27 and 28, CRAWFORD-STREET, 27. 21, PURCHASERS OF BANKRUPT STOCKS. " London, March 27, 1850. " To the Chairman and Directors of the East India Compan). "Honourable Sirs, " We, the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock, duly quali fied by law, request that you will convene a Special General Court of Proprietors at your earliest convenience, in order to take into con eidcration the papers respecting the succession, by adoption, of Sovereign Princes in India. "We have the honour to be, "Honourable Sirs, " Your obedient Servants, (Signed) " J. SULLIVAN. " JOSEPH HUME. • - " JOHN BRIGGS. "JAS. STE wART FORBES. " THOMAS DICKINSON. " W. 11. STEPHENS. " SAMUEL GOODFELLOW. • " CHAS. FORBES. " M. LEWIN." Precisely at twelve o'clock, the Chairman, Jourt SHEPHERD, Esq., and a body of directors, entered the large room, and the Secretary having read the minutes of the preceding Court, The CHAIRMAN called upon Mr. Sullivan. LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION. INSTITUTED INC OF FICE. M, KING WILLIAM-STREET. rresiclent—Sir CLAUDIUS STEPHEN. HUNTER. Bart. '4l,7Society is essentially ,_ Vice -president—CHARLES FRANKS, Esq. etn iums of its Members are reduced after seven years. one of Mutual Assurance, in which e rate of reduction of the Premiums of the present year will . he Per tent I ciety al to b, paid ~ earing lees than lone-third of the original Premium ' The 6 0 ' widen thAssurance, in so undertakes other descriptions of kn ow . _ e Assured de net become Members, and haying ceased to reduertLeenunission to Agents, the Society has been ei f ia ll b o l w ed ing Very , l ow Premiumse for this class of Assurances to the o rat QONGS OF S C OsT LAN D. 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Seo TO re H y tT ars , Dlt r iNK, AND AVOID N..rP"lar reviewand ten our course m Y the New,. . of almost every form (cause and a eure) of ner -I:4,l7enng_ fisted health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses 1 4;4 44 01d ' a7,!" 3 the man ee business, or study, an l d em u: °4 of e ,,, 1 '. with tables n and rules for the diet and physics' reg ery-d ay , ure. IV. 4 Wh at THE PASSIONS. R.._ ~epassions hurt the body—what improve, orti7J'ecT;:: l l ,as refined as Athens ever heard." e pz twen _ e pilgrimage, from infancy casual ties of ve• 411%LNisn e , s s • Chastity and its infringements. The casu to old age. The advent narrative, ‘` c lediati y ana diBBl Pation with illustrations, graphic , e. Advocacy of early marriages. „ THE MARRIAGE STATE. b e _ ok t . 1 0 be or not to be, that is the questlon. ek,"te4oreg4Trni i.nLaws and obligations of nature, society,imanedarned bltre',o both .rlage, to be observed by either sex. T and cl ea 4efe emth,yaosmito age, temperament, complexion, em itAel) sec ure h prlng, with the art of rearing tn . 11;1kt. defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. (I%i ~ lt. ,1 1 ). C ITLVEit A. 4 114,„ wentr WELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S. ' 0 Ite " — e years Medical and Forensic Referee in these 3 / 4 'oll ,ZePtion hours daily till five. Evenings, seven till nine. "ice• Regent-street o$ 11, tistrom by TnIR TY-VIRST EDITION. "Iys ir , 26 knatomical Coloured Eligravin - s on Steel. t e I,,koiAL LISQUA LIFICA.TIONS, GENERATIVE INCA b:lttliti,,,TY, AND I MPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. ptiet , 4-i2, eularged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s 6d. or tit rect frorn the Establ shment, 3s 6d. in postage st ' amp ' s, ii, SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on ire h e • ),, i ,, e i",,, Mines and decay of the generative system, from ex „, , ii re,,,, 'genes infecti Aslin 'fiarli a tr , , . on, and the inordinate use of mercury, pbeetio ne . Marriage, and the means of obv ating R. and fe r e•Rßy • Illustrated by 26 Coleared Engravings. By i l •strt,t aciConsulting Surgeons, itall,4„t2Bt ors Berners•stree c_erta_ln . dis iiie'rl:ierno6teere:looll. Published by the Aut : sold by strange,. 146, Leaden- Ilt ehbo nv e, Hannay, 63, and t Sa a n o g d er do l r s d o o , o, Oxford.street.; er p 4T e i t. t ru str eetalaymarke , tp., d r i e of the anatoMy and physiology o . f the re-product ITO ilustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. ilel ake 'r II t * iv,. Reeet,, ands'r of the consequences resulting from excesslvein teltertim inci heir lamentable effects on the system, producing y 'keit bedilY Weak xcitement, 1,,„ Y• Illust ness, nervous c - ravings. tilt ; II 111. t rated by Three Explanatory r , g • n • r ction, either in 14_1.1.444_ :eats of the diseases resulting from M '_,' and generati /11, i ' l tre,‘, secondary form, and contains explicit direc c ti o o l n o s or f o o d r i l l 'e ving, ' lt . 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I * 6,1 ., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two r. , t 4m -1 -r-PRESERVATION; a ilt p, ( ide O seki e eret , id on -al Tre atise on the PhysiologyynoutthMailageMaatrurity, th e 13, ~,ultirnslties and Disorders of Alert f eciit t sl -l C"eci at an early period of life, which enervate ~atio 4e o'‘.....aust the vital energies of Manhood ; **) and e.. .teittal powers, diminish and enfeeble ..t t h he pr n a a o t t u io r ol al d l lndigestion, tron,., Ati, in : the Treatment of Nervous Debillt , ti•e,", ellaime_fi.olu these causes, close study, or the influence of Nu er e, and ''' L ociii and Constitutional Weakness, SYP_ll . i i i i i" . . ....t,ttifo w 4,11 Ill s and Derangements resulting from I 3 e ilf t li stzi lk , L b : ttut Yi t P ta. ll ,l l : .B_.:°:tetYti, es, Engravings, 4, aint t‘,3.siologY, and Diseases of the iteproductive Organs, , 40 8. -'.4 P`uouced i n these illustrating n the Ily Iket er a 7. E x SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. b y st. 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In a few days, price Five Shillings and Sixpence, in smalllvo., cloth lettered. handsomely printed with FRONTISPIECE by HENRY DOYLE, Esq., ICK CALLS : from the DIARY of a MISSIONARY PRIEST. Mostly republished from " DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE." By the Rev. EDWARD PRICE, M.A. London : Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond-street, and 48 A, Pater noster-row. Mr. SULLIVAN rose and said, he had to crave the kind indulgence of the Court whilst he proceeded to ac quit himself of the task which he had undertaken on this occasion. The Court came to a vote in May last, by which it virtually asserted its right to confiscate to its own benefit the territories of any native prince of India whom it should have pronounced to have died without heirs. Now, the object which ho had in calling the Court together this day was to show that if they had been in possession of the papers which he held in his hand, they never would have come to that vote; but, on the contrary, by means of the information supplied by those papers, they would have come to a contrary resolution; and, if any proof were wanting of the crimi nal negligence with which that most important subject was decided, a subject involving the dearest rights and interests of no less than 300 chiefs and princes of India, that proof would be found in the is.ct, diet that decision was come to in criminal igno rance of the important documents which be held in his baud, that is, in the absence of the only evidence that would have enabled them to arrive at a just decision on the subject. He said criminal ignorance, for his own experience of the mode of conducting public business in India enabled him to say that whenever a subject of importance was under discussion before the Council of India the first step was for the secretary to prepare a collection of all the papers bearing upon the subject, so that those who had to decide upon it might do so with the fullest infor mation before them. This most important subject was brought under the notice of the Supreme Government in May, 1848, who did not de cide upon it until August, 1848, an interval which would have enabled them to ransack records and documents for every scrap of infor mation bearing upon the subject; but, instead of that being done, the matter was treated by the Supreme Government at Bombay, and also by the Court of Direc tors, as if it were entirely new, and as if there were no precedents to guide them to a decision. Now, it ap peared by the papers which he held in his hand that the question was agitated before the Council of India nu less than sixteen times between the years 1826 and 1846, and in fifteen instances was decided in the teeth of the vote which was passed in May 1848. The Government of India professed to have a right to assume the territories of native princes by virtue of certain prerogatives which they say had descended to them from the Mogul Emperors. By virtue of those prerogatives they had already seized the principalities of the native sovereigns of Cola's, Setters, and Alandevee, and they threatened, as occasion might offer, to extinguish all the others, including the Mogul himself, from whom they pretended to have derived their prerogatives. It was in order to meet those monstrous pretentious that be had framed the resolutions he was about to more ; and he felt the fullest confidence that those of the di rectors who looked to the legitimate consequences of those monstrous pretentious would concur pith him in forwarding those resolutions. Let the Court see what those legitimate consequences were. If they had one prerogative of the Mogul Emperor they had all his pre rogatives; if they might seize a man's possessions by virtue (~f tee Mogul Emperor's prerogatives, they might also cut off a iteau's head, or do any -other act of des potic tyranny which the Mogul Emperors themselves sometimes did. But whence did the Mogul Emperors derive those prerogatives ? Those perogatives were in herent in the Mogul Emperors, as despotic sovereigns, whose will was their law. But was it necessary in the 19 h century for him to remind the Court of Directors that they were not despotic sovereigns? Hai they not denuded themselves of every vestige of despotic power ? What was the object of all their treaties- solemnly en tered into with the native princcs of India? It was to strip themselves of all those prerogatives, and to define and fix that which was before fluctuating and uncertain. Now take, fur example, their treaty with the' Raja of Culaba, which e as cne of the native states which they hal already swept away. What was the preamble to that treaty ? The preamble ran thus— " Whereas by the conquest of the territories of Bajee Rao, the late Peishwah, and the complete extinction of his power, the rights possessed by his Government are now trans'erred to the East India Company; and whereas it is desirable to fix the future relations thet aro to sub sist between the said Rajah and the East India Com pany." Now, here were certain arbitrary and undefined preroga tives which had descended from the Peishwah to the East India Compoy, which they immediately stripped themselves of, and proceeded to define and fix tee future relations of the Company with the Raja of Co labs in the most minute way. Now, let him call the attention of the Court to the 21st article of their treaty with the Raja of Cutch. It was as follows:—" It being contrary to the religious principles of the people of Cutch that cows, bullocks, and peacocks should be killed, the Honourable Company agrees not to permit these animals to be killed." Again, in their treaty with the Raja of &Vara, the British Government reserved to itself the right of cutting timber:—" The British Government also reserves to itself the right of cutting timber on the western side of the Ghauts." Here there was no room for prerogative, everything was fixed and defined by treaty, even to the right of killing peacocks and cutting timber. He could not doubt, therefore, that they would join with him on those grounds in the reso lutions which he had to submit to their consideration, the first of which was as follows:—" That the British Government has no rights, and can claim the exercise of no prerogatives, over the Sovereign States of India beyond what belong to it under the general law of nations, excepting such as clearly flow from the stipulations of its treaties with those sovereigns."—(Cheers.) Now, he thought he had completely established the fact that the British Government bad no such rights and no such prerogatives as they presumed to exercise; but, on the contrary,that they had voluntarily stripped themselves of such rights and prerogatives, and that they could not go one jot be yond their treaties Now, the next resolution'as to those states which he had to propose, was the following:— " That those states have independent rights of succession, which are regulated by local usage, and that the British Government cannot justly subvert or interfere with such rights, with any view to its own aggrandizement."-- (Hear, hear.) Now, it would be his business to prove, from the papers which were now before the Court for the first time, that those sovereigns had those independ ent rights of succession; and, that he might de it with the more perspicuity, he should take the papers in the order of their dates, beginning with th e year 1826, when the first succession in the family of Scindiah occurred. Dowlut Rao Scindiah, the sovereign of the state of Gwalior, having fallen into a dangerous state of health, the Government of India, in urging him to name or adopt a successor, took care is guard against any misapprehension of their motives by an unqualified declaration that " nothing could be farther from the wish and intention of the British Government than to exer cise, now or hereafter, any intervention in the internal administration of his country—that it did not pretend to any right to control er regulate the succession to the state of Gwalior—that its sole motive in offering advice on the subject was the interest which it took in the maintenance of the general tran quillity " that Scindiah, as the absolute and despotic ruler of the country, must be con sidered to possess the undoubted right of determining the succession,"—and that it was prepared to recognise any selection that might be "made by the general voice, or by a majority of the chiefs and principal Persons of the country, according to usage, whether the letter of the written law was adhered to or not." Scindiah having failed to nominate a successor, his widow upon his death assumed the reins t f government, was recog nised by the Government of India as regent, and this recognition was extended to a son, whom she soon after wards adopted. He then came to the Kotah succession: In 1825 the Raj.), of Kotah applied to the Government of India to recognise as his successor a son whom he had adopted in 1821. Before granting the recognition, that Government thought it advisable to ascertain whether the adopted son was, by Hindoo law, the legal heir ; there being a brother of the reigning prince alive, whose pretensions as heir by blood might, it was thought, have clashed with thote of the heir by adoption. In submitting this question for the decision of a tribunal of Pundits, the Government of India declared, that " The Prince of Kotah must be considered to possess the right, in common with all other Ilindoos, of adopting a son and successor, in conformity with the rules of the Shaeters, unless prece dent and state usage can be pleaded, which distinctly bar the exercise of that right in the instance under and despotic monarch. Whet, then, was the status of the neje of Ketch? The first article of the treaty of Kotah said there shall he perpetual friendship, alliance, and unity of interest between the British Government on the one hand, and Meha Rao Omed Sing Behander and his heirs and successors on the other. Again, article 4 said the Mahe Rao and his heirs and successors will always act in subordinate co operation with the British Govern ment, and acknowledge its supremacy, and will not henceforth, have any connexion with the chiefs and states with which the state of Kotah has been heretofore connected; and article 7 said the tribute heretofore paid by the principality of Kotah to the Mahratta chiefs (fur instance, the reishwah, Scindia, Holkar, and Power) shall be paid at Delhi to the British Government fur ever, according to the separate schedule annexed. There they had princes acknowledging in terms the su premacy of the British Government, and in token of their dependence paying tribute to that Government. It was a notable fact, in connexion with this instance of the adoption of Kotah, that the subject of this adoption was the son of a man who had fallen when fighting against the British Government, but that Government wisely and charitably determined in this, as in other instances, that the sins of the father were not to be visited on the child, and the son was recognised as the presumptive heir of the territory of Kotah. So rooted in Hindoo law was this right of adoption, that Sir Charles Metcalfe on that occasion expressed a serious doubt whether it could be set aside by the subsequent birth of a male heir. The next case of succession by adoption in the order of time was that of the Raja of Dutteeah in 1833. In that year the reigning Raja applied to the British Government for the recognition as his successor of a foundling whom he had adopted in 1830; and the British agent, in forward ing that application, !aid that the Raja, with other princes of his class, had a right to adopt whom they [Acts( d, or to be succeded by their illegitimate offspring; and that as the treaty entered into between the British Government and the Raja confirmed the latter in his principality, his right to nominate a successor could not be disputed. In this reasoning the Government of India acquiesced, and, although the succession of the adopted son was opposed by a collateral heir, it was recognised by the British Government upon the death of the Raja, in 1840. He (Mr. Sullivan) found his strength failing him, and therefore he should just pass over eight or nine other instances which told precisely the same tale. There was the Dhar suc cession in 1834, where the widow of the Baja, who had died without adopting a successor, adopted a son, who was immediately placed on the Geidee (thron e ), an d hi s succession recognised by the British Government. There was next the first Holkar succession in the same ye ar , on'which the British Resident, in reporting the death of Mulhar Rao Holkar, the reigning prince, .observed that a son had been adopted just before ho expired; that it did not appear, however, that the adoption had been assented to, or even known to the Maharaja, previous to his death, but that as it was a measure in which the two principal surviving members of his family concurred, he (the Resident) was not aware of any objection to its recognition by the l3ritish Government. In announcing their recognition that Government took care to explain that they did so because the adoption appeared to be the spontaneous arid unopposed act of the Holkar Government, in which the people of that state seemingly acquiesced; but that the British Government were not bound by the act of recog nition to support the adoption should it prove to be illegal, or subversive of the rights deny other party, or contrary to the wishes of the majority of the chiefs and followers of the Holkar state; that it was inconsistent with the general policy of the British Government to inter fere with the internal administration of its tithed states, and far trim its desire that British influence should be exerted to maintain the adoption, if opposed to the ge• neral voice of the country; that in the event of Hurree Holkar, the next heir by blood, succt cling in setting aside the adoption, and establishing his own ascendancy, the British Government would, in conformity with these principles, recognise him as Sovereign of the Holkar ttte. That contingency occurred ; the adopted son, M trtund Rao, was placed on the throne, but was for eddy ousted by the heir by blood, Hurree Rao, who was placed on the throne, and recognised by the British Go vernment in 1834. Again, in 1837, in transmitting an application made by the R tje of Oorchs f ,r the formal recognition ae his successor of a son whom he had adopted some years before, Lard (then Sir Charles) Motcalfu,the Go, ernor uf Agra, re a,sserted the inherent right f llindoo princes to adopt successors. He said on that oecasion, The qu,stion resolved itself into whether chiefs and princes, not having heirs of the body, have a right to adopt a successor to the exclusion of collateral heirs, or to the supposed reversionary rights of the paramount power, and whether the British Government is bound to acknowledge the adoption. There is a wide difference in the disposal of the question between soverein princes aui sageer&ire T between those in possession of heredi tary sovereignties in their own right, and those who hold grants of land or p u bli c revenue b y lif e - gr ant from a sovereign or paramount p ower . Th ose who aro sove reign princesin their own right, and of the llindoo re ligion, have, by Hindoo law, a right to adopt to the exclusion of collateral heirs, or of the supposed rever sionary right of the paramount power; the litter, in fact, in such cases having no real existence, except in the case of absolute want of heirs, and even. then the right was only assumed by virtue of p o wer, for it would probably be more consistent with right, were the people of the state so situated left to elect a sovereign for them selves. In the case, therefore, of Hindoo sovereign princes, I should say, that in f a il ure o f h e i rs ma l e o f th e body, they have a right to adopt to the exclusion of collateral heirs, and that the British Government is bound to acknowledge the adoption, provided that it he regular, and not in violation of Hindoo law." In this assertion by Lord Metc a lf e — of the unqua li f i e d r i ght of Hindoo princes to adopt a successor in failure of heirs of their own body—the Government of Lord Auckland (entirely concurred; and having expressed an opinion, &et on the right of the Raja of Ourcha to adopt a suc cessor it was impossible to raise a question, the adop tion was recegniseil, although the Raja had placed i n peril all his rights and his cl a i ms upon t h e B r i t i s h G o vernment, by the aid and encouragement which he eels supposed to have gi ven to the Jageurdar of Chirgong when in rebellion against the Pritish Government, that Govern ment hav i ng i n th i s instanc e, as in the Faso of the father of the adopted son of the R ja o f Kotah, determined that the son should not bo punished for the sins of the father. The next instance of adoption was that of the Rawul f Banswarra. The Ranal cf Banswarra, having died in 1838, without male heirs and without having adopted a successor, the nearest heir by blood, Bhahadur Sine, was elects d with the consent and approleition of the leading chiefs of the principality tv fill the vacant Gha lee (throne), who proceeded forthwith to adopt,'as his successor, a buy named Luchnaun Sing. Beth the election of Bhahadur Sing as immediate successor, and the adoption of Luchruun Sing as eventual successor, were promptly re cognised by the B r iti s h G overnmen t, as was the e t ua l succession of the latter when Bhaha dur Sing died in 1844. Now that election was made in conformity with the rule laid . down by L or d M e t ca lf e , th a t when there was a failure of heirs it was more consistent with right that the people should elect a sovereign than that the British Government should take possession of the sovereignty as an escheat by the failure of all heirs. The next was the case of t h e Doougerpore succession. In that instance the titular of Dnongerpore having died in 1846. without issue or other lineal descendant, it be came a question whether the principality should be con tinued under the rule of the Raja of Purtabghur Dulput Sing, who had been adopted as his eventual successor by the titular Raja, Jeswunt Sing, or whether a re w adoption should be made for the Doongerpore succes sion; and as the latter measure was found to be most in accordance with the feelings of the people it was carried into effect, and provision at the same time made th a t in the event of the son so adopt e d dying during his minority Dulput Sing should make a second adoption. In this instance the titular Baja otDoongerpore, who had been deposed and set aside for incapacity and mis conduct for twenty years before his death, was not on that account deprived of his right cf ad o p t i on; so far from it, that he was permitted to make an adoption, with reservation of the rights of his own issue, sh ou ld h e i have any. That was a third nstance in which a son was held harmless for the sins of his father. Then there was the instance of the second Gwalior succession. In that case the Government of Lord Auckland, when informa tion was received in 1836 that the throne wa s aga i n likely to become vacant by the threatened death of Jun keje4Scindiale expressed their readiness, in th e even t of his Hi g hness dying without issue of his holy, or by adoption, to acknowledge the right of his widow to adopt a son, and to recognise her as regent during the child's minority, should such au arrangement be consonant with the general wish. In 1841 or 1842 there was a amigo in the Governor-General, and Lord Ellenho rough came into power. Those instt netioue in the case of the second Gwalior succession wore confirmed by the Government of Lord Elleuborough, hut the 11, , sident was at the same time cautioned not to declare the pur port of those instructions, or to take any Stop which might compel the British Government to adhere to them The Governor-General was asked it he had any inten tion to modify the regulations of the Government, but he wrote thus to the Resident: — " , he G overnor . General concludes that you have not made known to any of the ministers or chiefs at the Court of Gwalior the line of conduct which, ander your present instruc tions, you would pursueein the event of the demise of Scindiab, without male issue or any athoption having taken place, and his Lordship directs that you reserve yourself upon that, and tike uo oteP Pflalch might Compel an ad slates. The Governor General, in the first place, in vited the youug R'ija to repair to Agra, where he war then residing, that he might himself grant investiture of the title; but this invitation being declitel, the Resi dent was directed to perform the ceremony—" thereby," to use Governor-General's language, " affording the most public proof tf my confirmation of the Maharaja's adoption." Here we have a public avowal that Scin diab'e title as successor to an " absolute and despotic monarchy," required fir its validity the confirmation of the British Government. There then they had, for the first time, the Governor-General seated in the chair of the Mogul Emperors, and they would soon find him invested with more than: their usual prerogatives. He (Mr. Sullivan) came now to the second succession of Holkar, to which he would request the particular atten tion of the Court. On the death of Khunda Rao, the adopted son of Mulbar Rao, the Governor-General inti mated his intention of striking" out an entirely new line of policy," the object of which was, if possible the imme diate confiscation of the Holkar territory for the benefit of the British Government, or, if that were not practi cable, the eventual confiscation of that territory. A preli minary step was to get rid of all the heirs and claimants to the succession upon the first vacancy. Lord William Bentinck had intimated his readiness to recognise any succession that was consonant to the wishes of the people. Hurree Rao, the next in blood to Mulbar Rao Holkar, and who had in 1834 ousted Mar tund Rao, the adopted son of Mulbar Rao, was succeeded in 1843 by his adopted son, Khunda tio, whose title was immediately recognised by the British Government. Khunda Rao died in 1844 without issue, and without having made any adoption, and this event gave rise to a more open display of those pretensions which were put forth on the occasion of the last succession by adoption in the Scindiah family. Heretofore it had been a gene rally recognised ptinciple that, under no circumstances, could these principalities lapse to the British Govern ment ; that in failure of heirs by blood or of adoption by the reigning prince, his widow had the right to adopt, and that in failure of the exercise of this right, and of heirs altogether, the chiefs and people were at liberty to make such provision for the succession to an " absolute and despotic monarchy" as should be most agreeable to the general wish. "We were not," said Lord William Bentinck, Governor-General, when the throne of Holkar was vacant by the death of Mulhar Rao," prepared to pronounce upon the relative superiority of these claims. The decision upon them may be fairly left to the voice of the country, and our duty will be to maintain whatever arrangement may be unequivocally consonant to the general wish." Now contrast the language of Lord William Bentinck on the first vacancy with that of Lord Auckland on the second. When the Resident, in reporting the precarious state of Hurree Rao's health, intimated that it would become a question for the British Government to decide who should succeed to the Holkar state, Lord Auckland ex pressed his determination to be guided in the matter of the succession by the usages of the Holkar state. These were Lord Auckland's words:—"His Lordship in Council would also authorise you to recognise an adop tion of a son duly made by the Maharaja, or by any other person whom he may authorise for that purpose, and who may be • competent to exercise such a trust under the customs of the Holkar and other Mahratta sovereignties." Such was the language of Lord Auckland in the latter part of 1841. Now contrast that language with the language of Lord Ellenborough in 1842. Lord Ellenborough said, "In our dispatch of the 23d of March last we announced to you the demise of Khunda Ran, the young chief of Indore. By this event the Ghadee of the Holkar state was rendered vacant, there being no person with any legal claim what ever to succeed, and there being no one possessed of a legitimate title to adopt a successor. When there is no person having the shadow of an hereditary claim to suc ceed to the Ghadee of a native state, and no person pos sessing a legitimate title to adopt, and where, moreover, that state itself is comparatively of modern origin, owing its existence to a conquest made by predatory troops, it must always remain a question how tar it may be expe dient to maintain the separate existence of that state for the benefit of none but the intermediate followers of the court." Hers was a proclamation that tt•ere were no heirs to the liolkar state. Why were there no heirs? Is reporting the death of Khunda Rao, the Resident had repeated that the arrangement fur the succession which would he most agreeaUle to the people, would be the recall and re-establishment of Martund Rao, the adopted son of Mulhar Ira e, aho had been ousted by the heir t f blood of Mulhar Rao; and the Resident was nifirmed that the Governor-General " would regard with ex treme displeasure any attempt to put forward in any manner the pretensions of Martund Rao." The anxiety thus manifested to dispose of Martund Rao arose from the fact that, as the hereditary sovereign, he would have had a right to perpetuate the succession by adoption, and thus a/cult! have ;marred the plan t f the Gover nor General. Having thus by an act of power rid himself of all the heirs, the Governor-Gs eral proceeded to proclaim himself heir, and, as such, assumed the right to dispose cf the sum scion as he might think fit; but he first put forth a feeler to ascertain whether he could at once take possession of the territory. He directed the Resident to feel the pulse t f the peo ple, but the reply of the Resident being un propitious, the Governor-General was obliged to pause, and he intimated to the Resident his wil lingness to recognise the adoption that might be made by the head of the Holkar family. The Resident informed the Holkar family that such was the will of the Governor-General, and the widow immediately made an adoption, who was instantly placed on the throne without reserve or restriction of any kind.—(licar, hear.) Now this untoward precipi tancy, as it was called, of the Resident carried consterna- lion into the camp cf the Governor-General, and he was written to in these terms:— " You were authorised, if no grave reasons should upon inquiry appear to you to exist to dispose the Governor. General in Council to thvs art the Ma Sahibeh's wishes in favour of Bhow Holkar's second son, to inform her Highness that the Governor-General in Council, having taking into consideration all past occurrences, and the present position of the Holkar state, bad formed the con clusion that it was most for the benefit of the state that the younger Bond 13ovv, Holkar should succeed to theGha eee, but you were only authorised to make this commu nication !after irquiry. You were only. authorised to make it to the Alan Sahibeh herself ; you were not au thorised to make a publio communication to this effect in durbar ; still less were you authorised in aurbar to explain the desire of the British Government to perpetuate the Holkar state, or to speak cf making a selection from amongst those who were eligible, or to refer t) the Mah Sahiteh's having pointed out the younger son of Bhow Holkar, or to ri fer to the great re spect of the Governor-General fur the Mah Sanibeh as the motive which had induced the British Government to place that boy on the Ghadee. " You were not authorised to say anything which could by possibility be held to bind the Briti s h Govern ment to the adoption of a course similar to that now adopted, in the event of a similar vacancy of the gud dee; you were in no respect to bind up the hands of the Government for the future; you were not to use any expressions which could by possibility be interpreted as conveying the sanction of the British Government to an adoptioa of a successor to the guddee by the Mah Sahibeh. The Governor-General in Council would lain hope that you left upon the minds of all the impression that the your ger son of Bhow Holkar was placed upon the guddee by the mere will of the British Government." Now the Governor-General goes on to say, elsewhere— "lt is not necessary now to advert particularly to the intentions which were entertained by the Governor- General in Council with regard to the nomination on this occasion of a successor to an extensive independent principality, left without a legal heir, and of the mode in which it was proposed to mark the difference of the posi tion in respect to the paramount state.of the chief of its selection, from one who might succeed in due course to the Ghadee of his ancestors. " The opportunity of marking an important line of policy has been lost to the Government by your pro ceediugs on this occasion; for in the face of what you, as the representative of the British Government, and in its name, have done, as above described, it would be, the Governor-General in. Council considers, inconsistent to offer to the young chief a sunnud of appointment, and to demand from him a nunar, the mark of subordi nation and dependence." Now, the Resident, in order to reinstate himself in the good opinion of his superior, proposed that the Governor- General should write to the young Raja an intimation that ho sat upon the throne as the nominee of the British Government with limitation only to the heirs male of his body. This was accordingly done, and now Governor-General Harding° appeared upon the scene, who wrote to the Tookajee Llelkar in these terras:— " having an e a-nest desire to promote the interests of tho chiefs and people of the state, and to preserve the honour and prosperity of the principality, the British Government determine i on this occasion to make such an arrangement as would conduce to tho accomplish ment of these ends, and would at the same time, it was believed, be agreeable to the feeling cf the remaining members of the family of the late Hullos Rao Heater, and of the chiefs and nobles of the principality. " Actuated by these motives, I was induced to direct the British Reiident at Indore to nominate your High ness t) the occupation of the vacant Ghadce." Again he says:— "It is the intention of the British Government, in thus hes:owing on your Highness ;;the principality of the Holkar state, that the chiefahip should descend to the heirs male of your Highness's body lawfully begotten, in due succession, from generation to gene. ration." Now, here they bad the Governor• General absolutely giving away the principality of Holkar with as much sang fivid as it it were his own estate. How, then, did the Governor-General acquire the right cf disposing of it in tbia wanner ? They were connected with the " To promote theinterestsOt the Chiefs and the people of the state, and to preserve the honour. and prosperity of the principality, by making such an arrangement as would conduce to the accomplishment of those ends, and would at the same time be agreeable to the feelings of the remaining members of the family—and of the chiefs and nobles of the principality." He was happy to say that the parties engaged in that discreditable attempt to rob a native sovereign of his rights had overreached themselves, and the young Holkar was placed on his Ghadee without any restrictions whatever.—(Hear, hear.) It was an after thought of the Governor-General to write him a letter , telling him that he sat on the throne as the nominee of the British Government; but it was too late, and he now sat there enjoying all the ancient rights of his state.— (Hear, hear.) Having thus stated to them fifteen or sixteen instances where the so►ereigns of India had exercised independent rights of succes sion without the British Government having put forward any pretensions to question such rights, bat by and with the consent of its formal recognition of the right, he felt that he had said enough to justify the adoption of his resolutions.—(Hear, hear.) He need hardly point out to them the wide distinction bete een the right to recognise, or to refuse the recog nition of the title of a particular individual, and the right to interdict or allow the right of adop tion; for instance, they might properly refuse to recognise the succession of a particular person from political motives. They might have refaced to recog nise Napoleon as the sovereign of France, just as Louis the 14th refused to recognise William the 3rd as sove reign of England.—(Hear, hear.) But the refusal to recognise the adoption here stood upon a very different footing. The distinction he had mentioned vs as clearly stated in a speech of a Right Honourable Friend of his made on a former occasion, whose absence from sickness he much deplored, as he was quite sure these resolutions would have had his cordial support. He said— " And, Sir, this brings to my mind an important dis tinction to which it is necessary to advert. I freely ad mit that in all cases of adoption, where there is a dis pute as to the succession, the sanction of the paramount power is necessary. And why? Because we have taken upon ourselves, and we are entitled to take upon our selves, the task of maintaining the peace of all subordi nate states in India. In such a case our sanction is re quisite for the purpose of declaring that the thing is legal and regular; that rights have noebeen violated ;Ithat the feelings of the people have not been outraged; and that your own just rights have not been set aside. But in such a case, your sanction is in its nature a judicial sanction given ,to prevent o r se t t l e di spu t es . Yon are bound to give it to the rightful claimant, just as you are bound to acknowledge the rightful heir ; and the fact that it is sought no more entitles you to withhold it, than the appeal of parties entitles a judge to appropriate to himself the thing litigated." With this stream of precedents before them, of 'sove reigns of all classes having exercised independent rights of succession by virtue ef the law and custom of India, he was entitled to ask them, and ho likd a right to expect an explicit answer—how iy came about that, when they determined to bar the kilas. of Satter* and Coloba the right of succession hfrefitlptior, they said they were warran ed in doing so by= the laws and customs of India? —(Hear, hear.) . These were their words— e• Concurring-with you in opinion.- we are, satisfied, that by the general-IA- and cu s t o m f India, a dependant principality, like that of Sattara, cannot pass to an adopted &it- withriiit the consent of the paramount power ; that uo are under no pledge, direct or con structive, to give such consent." Now the directors said they were satisfied, a-id the Court of Proprietors had a right to know what it was that satisfied them. They had a right to ask when they were eavisfied. He demanded to know when it was that this stream of light fist broke upon them, scattering assay all the darkness in which they appeared to have been enveloped for 25 years?— (11ear, hear.) They said "concurring in this opinion," but they did not say what that opinion was, and it ssoald therefore become his duty to endeavour to pin them down to the opinion expressed by the Governor. General, which they said they concur in. In the first place, then, ho would ask whether they concurred in this opinion?— "I hold it to be established as a general rule, beyond cavil or doubt, in the papers, now before us that, while adoption by a prince of any individual is valid, so far es to constitute him heir to the adopter's private posses sions, it is of no power or effect whatever in constituting him heir to the principality, or to sovereign rights, until the adoption has received the sanction of the sovereign power, with whom it rests to give or to refuse it." Now, here they had positive proof of the criminal igno rance with which this important question had been dis cussed. Here they had the Governor, General asserting it as an established rule, admitting cf DU cavil or doubt, that no sovereign prince in 'lndia had a rigbt to adopt—that they had a right to rt fuse or to sanction the adoption; but had the Governor-General been in posfeoion of the papers which he (Mr. Sullivan) then held in his hand, he would have seen that this esta blished rule came in direct contact with the rule laid down by his predecessors, and by which it was acknow ledged that every sovereign prince bad a right to adopt, and that we had no option, but were bound to acknow ledge the right. Now, if the directors were in unison with the opinion cf the Governor-General, they were in direct opposition to their former opinions.—(Hear, hear.) But perhaps they had changed their minds; perhaps they were now of opinion that no sovereign prince in ,India had a right to adopt ;a successor. Let him give them their own wordf:— "It the Raja were created a sovereign, in the ordi nary acceptation of the term, he was unquestionably com pst2nt to appoint a successor to his royal right-, as well as an heir to his personal property." This was an unqualified admission, on their part, that all sovereigns in the ordinary sense of the word, that was 99 out of every 100, the exception being the Raja of Sat tare, had a right to adopt a successor. But were they really of opinion that none but ordinary sovereigns could adopt? During the Government cf Lord Auckland some cases of this nature occurred, and there was a letter of Mr. Maddocks, the Government secretary, in which the right was admitted, so far as the Raja of Oocha was concerned. What said the Gus ornor General of that day upon the point. Why, this— " I cannot for a moment admit the doctrine, that be cause the view of policy upon which we may have formed engagements with native princes may cir cumstances materially altered, we are not to act scru pulously up to the terms and spirit of tho se en g a g emen ts. "I have referred to our treaty with the Ra ja of on the 23 d Decem b er, Oorcha, conclud ed have been by r, 1812, and I find that its preamble commences in these words The Raja of Oorcha is one of t he chiefs of B undelkund, by' whom, and hi s ancestors, his present possessions h ave been held in successive g e nerations during a long course of years, without paying tribute or acknow leredagtiyng vass alage to any other po wer .' A nd the formed with the Raja is designat e d as one o f friendship and alliance ;' the territory, whi c h f rom anc i e nt times has descended to th e B aja b y inherit ance, and is now in his possession, being guaranteed to the said Raja, and to his heirs and successors.' Upon words so distinct and positive as these, I hold it to be impossible to raise a question, and .1 am of opinion, v d e r o n p m t i o e therefore, that the B a j a o f O orcha must be regarded as one of those soverei gn ru l ers who, according to the very proper rule laid d own i n t h e letter of Sir Charles Mel calf e, of 28th O cto b er, 1837, i s entitled to make an adoption, in his own di scret i on, w hi ch the Br i t i sh Go ant is broeugular bound to and a notcknowl in violation edge,provid of H edthat iu s d uc e h a e law. " Admitting the right of the Raja, for the reasons which I have stated, to adept an heir, I am not disposed, after much reflection on the whole übject, to mix up cur recognition of that right with th e s e p a r a t e con sideration of the punishment that may be thee to him for unwarranted opposition to the Mash power." It was ireposs.ble to raise a question about words so dis tinct and positive as those, awl he, therefore, maintained that, if the directors took up the ground that none but ordinary sovereigns had a right to adopt, they wore di rectly opposed to Lord Auckland's minute.—(Bear , hear.) But the directors were now of opinion with the Governor-General, that heirs and successors meant lines! descendants, but, as Lotd Auckland observed in treaties wh& re the words were so distinct and positive as those, it was impossible to raise a question about them. In dealing with these cases, however, t he question ought not to turn upon whether the sovereign wa s an ordinary or an extraordinary ore, but what were the rights granted to him by the treaty. Now , precisely such It question as that occurred under the Government of Lord Auckland. lu viewing this questio n (says his Lordship), it was by these treaties alone that their relations in India were to be governed. All custom respecting th e right of succession became dormant the moment ill India bymoment treaties were concluded. They m i g ht restrict princes treaty's, to the perm:11800 2 0w they were to a d opt . They might, for instance," confine the right succession to the heir male of the body, with a reservation to themselve case of failure, or they might extend it to those who* had no right by birth, and who formed an intermediate class, being neither subjects nor sovereigns. They might, as in the case of Colaba and Seindials, apply the principle of limitation to the heir male, or, as in the sovereignty of Oita!), restrict the suc cession to legitimate children, excluding all offspring, They might extend the sue. cession also if they thought proper to " heirs and suc cessors," meaning thereby heirs and successors generally. Well, then, did they agree with the Governor-General that the state of Sattara was an independent sovereignty? The first paragraph of the Governor-General's minute stated " The death cf his Highness Shreement Maharej, the sovereign of Severe, has rendered it necessary fur the British Gorernment to determine the important question whether the state of Sattara shall be continued as an independent sovereignty, or whether it ►hall be he' I to have lapsed to the paramount state, and shall henceforth form an integral portion of the British Empire in India." Here was an express recognition of the Raja of Sattara as an inde pendent sore-eien. Now thuse was only one other point on this subject to which he would cull their at tention. Wt a., he would ask, was the distinctive mark laid down by writers on international law, to distinguish as independent sovereignty? It was this—" When :Le ministers of two poa ers, which are of equal rank, sign a treaty, it is usual to make two originals, or a double instrument; each nominates his own sose-eign first in the copy which le keeps and signs first, in order that there may be no prejudice to their claims f rank when this is contested." Now this di:tinctive mark was to be found in their treaty with the Raja of Sattara.; Article 2 ran thus:—" This treaty, consisting of eleven articles, being this day settled and concluded at Staten/. by Captain James Grant and Wittul Punt Furnavese, Captain Grant has delivered to his Highness Maharaja Pertaub Sheen a copy of the same in English, Mahratta, and Persian, under the seal and signature cf the said Captain James Grant and his Highness Maharaja Pettsub Sheen, has delivered to the said Captai❑ James Grant another copy, also in English, Mahratta, and Persian, bearing his Highness's seal mid signature." This was a proof that the Raja) of Sattara was a sovereign in the ordi nary sense a the term, and was equal in status and rank to the British Government. It was, then, with a pctfect knowledge of the subject that Sir James Carnac, when a proposal was made to him to bring the first Raja to trial, said that by doing so he would " be accused of de grading a sovereign from his acknowledged rank, and offering violence to his feelings and dignity, and of assuming a right of superiority to which we hare no claim." Ile would allude to one other circumstance as another proof of the shameful ignorance with which this important subject had been decided. The Governor- General said, "It was under the clause of that treaty (the treaty of 1818) that the present Raja was eallei into existence by an exercise of th• powers and generosity of the British Government. All the ordinary rights therefore, possessed by a sove reign over a subordinate and long-constituted state, must, from the ♦ery nature of the case, have been stronger in this case than in any other. I can find no thing whatever in the terms of the treaty which would justify the assumption that it was intended to curtail those rights, or to confer larger powers in respect of adoption on the part of the Baja of Sattara than are en joyed by an old-established state." That was written in perfect ignorance of all that had been done by his pre deceasers. If he had looked at the proceedings of his predecessors he would have have found that the Raja of Sattara put forth exactly the ame claim which had been admitted on no less than six teen different occasions by all their Governments in India for some years past. He (Mr. Sullivan) would have to ask the Court to agree to another resolution, which was to the following effect:— " That the rights of succession of inferior chiefs who held their possessions by grants from former Govern ments, to whose rights the British Government has succeeded, must be determined by the terms of such grants." the absolute necessity of such a security would be ap parent, because when they could prove that a prince was not a sovereign in the ordinary sense of the term, they csually claimed the right to deal with him as if no right existed. Now, what had teen the practice with regard to the intermediate class, who, as Sir Charles Metcalfe had stated, were neither subjects nor sovereigns; but who must be: dealt with exactly according to the terms on which they held their respective possessions? What was the nature of their engagements with these chiefs, and what what was their practice under these engagements? He would take, first, the S unnu d grante d b y them in 1811 to the Raja of Chickorce, ono of the ancient here ditary chiefs of Bundlecund. By that Sunnud they made over " the lsnds and vill ages enumerated in the subjoined schedule to the said Raja and his heirs, with all their rights and usages, except for payment of re venue to the British Government in perpetuity, so long as the said Raja and his heirs and successors shall ob serve and remain faithful to the second article of the Ikranamah, the obligation of allegiance ." Here;was a chief, not a sovereign in any sense of the term, but ono owing them allegiance, to whom they bad granted lands in per petuity. When he died did we pretend to say that the term " heirs and successors" in the grant meant natural heirs? No such thing; he adopted a son to the prejudice of tho collateral heirs, and that adopted son was recognised as his successor by the British Government. Now, how ever, they raw the new doctrine promulgated, that if a ch'e, let him be whom he may, should happen net to ba a sovereign in the mangled sense of the tam), then that they had a right to re zJ upon his possessions. lie would now only trouble them with another resolution, which n as as follows: " That justice requires that all cases of dispute he te e'en the British Government and the sovereigns and chiefs of India who are t o wt ak to resist injustice by war, or the persona c aiming to be heirs to such sove reigns, relative to the meaning of treaties and engage ments into which they have mutually entered, stn old be decided on a full and impartial consideration of all :he circumstances by a tribunal qualified to investigate the facts and prieciples involved in the matters a• i,sue." That resolution r aturally grew aut of the othere, for if a sovereign prince had a right of succession which ho wished to establish, it follows d, as a matter of course, that there should be some tribunal to which they might appeal in case that right was infringed. They were all perfectly well aware that they could not touch a single rupee or a particle c f peoperty belonging to a antject in India without the due precess t f law; and why should they, in the face of selemratreaties and engagements, take forcible possession of principalities, territories, and sover eigntica, and afterwards maintain that the owners of them should have no opportunity for redress? Ac cording to the principle they now acted upon, they had only to strike a pen through a treaty and say it meant so and so, and immediately proceed to take possession. They would perhaps allow him to give a f w instances in which they had summarily entered upon a state or principality. After the war of Seringaratatu and the fall of Tippoo Seib, his territories became divisible betweea the two belligerent parties— the Nizim and the British Government. They made a partition treaty, by which they engaged to take certain portions on their own account, and to give the remainder to the descendant ef the ancient Raja. It was arranged that the descendant should have the aid of a subsidiary force from the British Government, for which he was to pay annually seven lacs of pagodas, and there was a provision in the treaty to the erre( t that in the event of the Governor-General seeing any reason to be liev) that the funds for the payment of this subsidiary force should fail, he should be at liberty to take possession of a certain portion of his territory. The Raja remained in undisturbed possession until 1531, when the British Government assumed teat the resources for that payment were going to fail, or they thought or wished they had such information, and tLey at once took possession e f the whole of the territory. The second instance to a hich lie would refer was the treaty with the Nabob of Surat, by which it was agreed that the civil and military go vernment of hie territory should for ever be vested in the East India Company, on the condition that a cer tain payment was made annually to the Nabob. He found a passage in the diary of Mr. Duncar, tne then Governor of Bombay, on this subject, which stated that he had intimated to the Nabob teat the se curity given to him by the East India Company for the punctual rao went of this money to himself and his heirs and successors was greater than any ho had yet had. But what was the result? The Nabob died; the Go vernmeet took possession of all his territory, and even refused to continue the pension to his daughter. The third case which he had to bring to their notice was that of the treaty which was concluded with the Raja of Colabo. The Government relinquished all right to the state to the Raja, but they re served to themselves the power to nominate who among his heirs should be his successor, when he should be adopted, a collateral or a legitimate heir, and they also reserved to themselves the right to appoint a successor, in the event of his having no lineal deeaco g - derits, or adopted heirs. The Raja died, Go vernment construed the treaty as meaning; that have appointed a successor, and, as he had f and h t e should the to do so, they at once seized upon the territory Colabo.of rsucha Was there an example anywhere to be theirfoun d hale ally, .n proceeding ? Why, in the case Greece, who stood in much the same° relationus totime n as the Raja did to the East India Comp an y his death, the public had lately anYel at 'd b le t apprehension respecting the reprisals o b u e r en G un owTh e ei r rcn c hm o bneasnid, Government; a kbeu n place at the instigation o f the correspondence which had it turned out, from that it was just been published, ° on l y after ne gotiation t to obtain our rights twenty y ears ' dut • to that we had felt it our_ t ) turn round and give the Government of th . state a slap in the face. But the E as t l o dic Company had not so much as inti mated to those in d ep endent sov ereigns to whom he had alluded i t t e intentions Secretlya e r t oB curse eing them, powerless,as ht in their hearts for th e commission of so gross w o h n a l t y t t h o e s i r u b i m n a n injustice.—(Bear.) Gteat impo r t a n ce h a d l een at ht they thought, had eti g tac hed to what was called the paramount power, but what did it mean ? It could not be denied they were the m ust powerful state in India, by conquest after conquest; but Bonaparte, whose power a few years ago aus so omnipotent, did not crush petty states as they had done. The Government oldie United Suites of America wa s a most powerful one iu America, but it claimed no such privilege as that which tl e East India Company had arrogated to themselves. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by expressing a hope that the re solution& which be had read would receive the sanction of the Court, observing that it was the solemn duty of allied Powers, in cases where any doubt arose as to the meaning of a treaty, to give the benefit of the doubt to the weaker power.—(Cheers.) The resolution having been read, Colonel Dtcleftesoet said—l have great pleasure in rising to second the motion cf my Hon. 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