The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

for einsideration was, whether they had sufficient °en&
&nee ire the 'rpm who have thus mismanaged the of eirs
of India to give them a renewal of their powers. lie
would :ay that the pettrensge et India eught to be con-
fided to those who were really answerable for the go'
vertiment. of ludia—trey ought to give- fair play to the
repreeentative instituiens !hey had oe4aintd already, but
winch they were endeavouring to take away. They ought
to admit natives of rack and itifluenee into the highest
places of the state. The policy of this country had only
succeeded in those places in India where they had not
actively interfered. In the Panjaub, for instance, the
revenue was collected with the greatest ease, and there
were no defaulters Their resident at Loodianah had
ulreedy given evidence in favour of the fitness of the
natives of India for the exercise of the higher functioe*
of the Government. He stated that there were many Of
the natives whose, gotilific3tions for the higher efftcesof
the sore were sucn as to reflect honteir upon an assembly,
setting even in Laudon or Paris. lie bud goo e thrtiugh''
the list of places held by natives, and he found that out.
of 100 000 000 and more of natives. there were not 100 t
receiving inc.Jw. s amounting to 1,000 rueees a month
whsreas out of the 800 covenanted servants .the Come!'
prey, 600 of them were in the receipt of .between 2 000!
and 3,000 !Up, ts a month at heat ; at d of the remainders
net one-:hind hail toss than he maximum amount of es
Lary receive day naives er unceveuanted servants. What '
was the c-se of Ceionel Otrrstn ? This was en [mount
able anti deserving man. In the attempt that hies beat.'
recently made t ► crush him they had an insight into thee
dark recesses ef Indian despotism and corruption. Ite
appears; that there is a tributary state to which the
British Government had acquired by treaty a right ,ref
intervention. That right they had exercised in such 6
way as to extend their guarantee to all persons, whether
they be native or foreign, of becoming British subjectitr
and thereby of being entitled to British protection. The
righ's under that treaty were folly recognised by the
Sovereign of that territery and the Court of Directors.•
A very eich backer in Bsroda, who was a native, re.
ceived a guaracuse under this treaty from the British
Government, and upon the faith of such he carried ote
the business of a banker. That person died, leaving
some millions behind him to his two widows, by each of -
whom he bad one son, who were .ultimately to inherit
his property. Under the conditions of the guarantee
just referred to the two widows continued to carry on
the business of the bank, until upon one day a fraudulent
agent of the bank had carried e if one of the children--
the other having died previously. The child tbus carried
off was murdered, and the guilty party to screen himself*
charged the uefortunate mother with having foisted a
spurious a ffspring upon her husband. She was there-,
upon immured in gaol, and the accuser was placed in
alt p .session of the property. Colonel Outram soon
ette.ir ...to. circumstance was appointed resident of Bared*,
cud the widow t oetrived to make her case known to time
He made a searcning inquiry into all the facts, and the
result was not only to establish her innocence, but an,
extensive conspiracy, in which were implicated many of
the effieers of the late resident in this fraud. It was die-
covered that many of the highest rank had been bribed
by the ill-gotten gains of this agent to refuse the slightest
support to any nt the woman's applications for redress.
At the same juncture the facts became so widely known
that the. Bombay Government were obliged to make I
show of interference in the matter, and u letter was sent
to Colonel Outran), dated the 15th May, 1851. request-
ing him to report whether he bad any reason to suppose
that any such bribery existed get:l%l.6lly. A copy.of
this letter was sent to every officer in the Bombay Go,- ee
vernment that had been charged with the office of reel" t•-ie,,e'
dent. Colonel Outram obeyed the instructions thee ee
communicated, and made an effectual inquiry into the
subject. He found the charge proved, and ascer-
tained that from 1840 large sums of money bad.
been sent to Bombay Castle, and had been expended •„:te
in the way of bribes. The highest persons were ..
denour.ced as the recipients of those bribes. Colonel
Outruns found, whether they were recipients or no, •
that the money had reached the castle, and had Pro-
cured those particular services which it was meant to
purchase. Colonel Outrank was enabled to intercept on
the way to Bombay Castle the most secret and eXtraor- •
chnary minutes of the Governor in Council, which had s seLetet
been so recently adop...ed that they had not yet been
acted upon, and yet they were,translated into the native
dialect. This intercepted document he sent back to the
proper quarter. For thus acting he was suspended,
although he (Mr. Ansley) contended that under the pe:
collar cercum -mimes of the case he could not have. auteus
otherwise. Notwithstanding Celeriel Outram's demands
the authorities have retused to mike any inquiry into his
case, but on the contrary have endeavoured by every.
means in their power t hush it up. The most effeusive •
articles have appeared from time to time in the netell''.
p ,pers there, particularly the native ones, in reference to
the conduct of the British authorities in this matter.
Was this the treatment to which they ousht to sub'
ject that man who had rendered such
vluable services
to their army in Scinde, and who had been epee inted
resident in Bared% tor the last services he bad ren-
dered them at Hyderabad? Colonel Outram wes n°ll
in England asking them fir justice. He held in /us
hand the report of the Advocate-general in Barcdth
It was dated July 31, 1843, many years prior to
the appointment of Colonel Outram. Mr. Le Mesurert
the Advocate-general says, '' There can be DO doubt tbi!s
his highness, finding his position becoming critics/1
formed the design -of bribing largely those members of
the British Government who were in a position 10 give
WY, ct to his wishes and the se of his Ministers." The
document went on to say that a long ietimacy with Sir
James Cameo pointed that_gentleman out as the best
channel of reaching the Governor of Boutbay ; end thae
145,0001 had already been proved to have been expend!:
in the way of bribes. The accusation continued to
disregarded, and the Bombay Government refused tin,
vindicate its own character. He (Mr. Ansley)
now ask what confidence could they place in the
evi-
dencte produced before a select committee in reference to
such a state of public eftairs ? What trust could they
repose in the hoeesty of superintendents coMinf.
forward to give evidence upon such a subject ? How
could they reach those who dould give them infer'
m viten upon those secret matters of corruption
unless they went to the place itself, end showed the'
people of India that they were really in earnest,
and that they would be perfectly sate in corning
forward to give evidence ? The people of England were
deeply concerned in this inquiry; for they weres. IC
the
e
peewees to India for their sincerity .ofthapucrpoorruption
was ea's), for them to inquire here
practis d in some of their boroughe
thou-
sands of miles of rolling sea separatwig them from India;
binur there were
and there was also to be considered the immense diffe-
rence which existed between this country and India in
respect to language, religion, and prejudices. Unless
cur
rotankisesinfutstliaasandhewith
subject,power i t
sitg
inquiry
India,into
se to expect any useful result. Such a
was utterly h-P°le d• and hear evidence there
commission could go to In la.
and Ps:ajar:dint
Cabinet
undistuibed by any contingencies of a change of
1.
He was told that the Earl of Da
or a new but he did not know whether
boogie was coming home;
war wou d permit bin to do so. When,
the Burmese
Pe,rhament.
however, he did return home, he might possibly say,
in the language of Lord Herdinge, that
the great
concerns
and the constant fear of wars
had, of ,be empire,
quite unfitted him NI. giving at y opinion on (be ,
administrative affairs of India. He would implore of
c
the Buse not to oppose his proposition, but rather ,
to remember the words of iwarning which had
many great then, namely—that the
natives
ttietrd by
leudiub,ii,g
justly
discontented were be-
coming
disaffected end desirous of bean ut
a chanee of roaster;
It was yet in their power to arrest the .further spread
eft this feeling. Let them not trust to hearsay or
secondary evidence. Let them distrust the statements.
of their irreConell, able enemies, who Nave gone to
not for the benefit of the people, but for the mere Pur-
pose of putting money in their own pockets. The ll°.
and Leaved Gentleman concluded by moving his
atriendner nt.

An HoN. MEMBER, whose name we could not lacer'
bin, secotoled tne am. ndrnent.
Tee SPEAKER hevine put the question, and
1:r. H J- BeILLIE said that as the 11°11', an '!
Learned Member for
opportunity of +xpl4intrig
Yentehal (Mr. Acs ' ey)
the views and opinions hie :he ..
tertained on this su'ej.ct to the Hume, be trusted the
lion. with
lion. and Learned Gentleman would be satisfied
e , to -rx di-
that advantage, and not press his smendmabrie
Member
bud had an .;
vision. If he understood the 1-1
- Tour& Commission
rightly, he was of opinion that
dais, io ascertain the
sh mid be i*sued to- proceed to
India,
of that country
sentiments of the native population .
which the govern.
with refernce to the meaner to
ender the auvices of
(Lent there had been adrele,tetsiow be (11r. !Lillie) con- •••• ...
the East India Company_~..
fy,;red from the [lon. Member as
ftesed that he entirely di fed
that inf,,ratattota
whiab•
to the best mode of "h"" a use generally were .of .
ie d the •
however, he
desirablel°"l--ve should be laid before Parliament '
opinion it was legislate for the future government
-
era it proceeded la
y He did not think it was desirable, ...
of India. (
--Eli ele3,n'aiission should proceed thither to in"
that a Roya. -co'inmplaints and grievances of all those die' .
quire into
which now acknowledged the supremSo9 . ,
t nations
• D
leren te—gatioes, be it remembered, differi g-
British ruther
in manners and customs—differing -
fromfrom one alio •
religion—differingtram 911.
An another in one
le
other---e • language, and spread, as the Honourable '' e''
also in .
Ifobserved,sue' -MA had himself over a space on the •
I ,se.
member
he globe little less—if at all less—tban that face of tt
which was occupied by the whole of Europe.. Ho con- el
e.3skel, then, that he did not think it would be desirable. ,
. ,'.. bet
that se herculean a task as this inquiry wort', `,,A....1
prove should be entrusted to commissioners sP'.' ,,til
Walk ~!.,1,;1
inted by the Crown.—(Lkar, hear.) .. „Ile ~ st..4,
IY
~
were .tad,c-,e,
quite imarly to admit that if commissioners wee-- ;toy
proceed proceed to India, and it were understood that -w9..,„ .:0',,.
gentlemen had gone there .tor the purpose tit hearing
the complaints and grievances of the people, no donut
tb..ir time would be fully occupied; that very ertle
there wou'd be a good array of complaints af:
grievances laid before the House • and doubtless, as the
..
Hen Member bad retuarLd, that never•tailing sounr_f
~.:
if complaint and grievance in India, the operatio_ .7.,u Id
he band-tax. would_te ono of the most promineaeL,o, ,
tee-e complaints --( ! lest.. hear.) The settlement which
~,,li.
took place wider Lord Corowallis—a settl(ment which -,....,'
he believed was entered into in great igeeranc• ,not
t,.
cay.,,,n
of the manners and customs, but of the rights a
8
Viieg" of the naive population of India—bud WO S
.c__ e:
great mistorttme, and bad led Jo considerable ilijusti
~....._.,„u
but wo were now unable to retrace our sir pa., :ILL..-
event!, we could not do so with reference. to lthee _ A:t:u..,
~..,,
went without committing still greater. iiinitti to
during. Tl.l
those interests which have grown up 111 no :T. ,
seventy years. But that this queen
the r
„. ;;
he last sixty or
~ the main gtievauce or s , ate
of the laud tax 'I" f before 0 • . e
had already ample proe
ee., 1.•
Tae°e of India, we • • onointnieut of a Committer,:
- -
very prospect or tan a..
.. .
to .
spring
up
caused an assouteion
of loquiry bait c 9 . .
express purpose of .le)ing that complaint_
in India TOT the
;3 b-tore that ‘,...c181Z1 tee.. Au 11.0un _ h..
anti grit vane .
Dative gentlemen—nattily of them ne "of ..,
cotnposed of
education and iuttliidence, and some
liesed wen of
miher a ,arbild taikViet44lollo44W - '
them *WO WO ril • ,