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THE StrN, LONbON. thURSIiAi, 0C140111+7,R St 1839.

ADDITIONAL NEn rROM INDIA.

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(From the Bombav re'. eillel 6 the 12th of
September.
DETHRONMENT OF THE RAJAH OF SATTAR A.
The Rajah of Sattara has at length itli t his well-
merited fate. A little before daybreak on Wednesday
last, the tiffie allowed him for the acceptance of, the
terms having expired without his cornplialice, the Resi-
dent, supported by the tth Regiment of Native In-
fantri, one eompany of her Majesty's 41st Foot, and
the Hank companies of the 21st and 25th Regiments
of Native Infantry, proceeded to the palace of the
Rajah and arrested his Highness, who surrendered
himself at once, and was sent under an escort of 150
Irregular horse, and some Sepoys to the village of
Nimbgaum, about seven miles from Sattara, and about
eight o'clock the same morning Appa Sahib, the ex-
Rajah's brother, was proclaimed his successor under
the style and title of Shrernunt Maharaj Shajee
Rajah Chutterputty of Sattara."
The proclamation issued by the British G.,vernment
will be found below.

Bala Sahib, a member of the Royal Family, and
about twenty adherents, followed the palankcen of the
dethroned Prince from Sattara. It is, we believe, in-
tended that he should reside at Benares, though some
mention Malligaum. The present Rajah has no chil-
dren, and is not to be permitted to adopt ; so that the
Sattara territory will at his death be annexed to the
dominions of the East India Company.
We are glad to be able to state, in correction of a
passage which occurred in our account of the 4th inst.,
that although the Rajah was told the British Govern-
ment was fully satisfied that his guilt had been conclu-
sively established, he was not required expressly to
make any acknowledgement of his criminality. This
measure would have been harsh ; it might have clouded
the otherwise unsullied justice of the cause, and afforded
to generous minds a justification for the Rajah's resist-
ance.

Every effort was, on the contrary, made to save his
Highness ; but the usual fatuity of those whom destiny
has abandoned hurried him to his doom, and trusting to
the various agencies he has established in England and
India, and on which he has squandered large sums of
money, he would not be saved. What must now be the
reflections of those who have reduced him to his present
fallen estate ? Their bitterest regrets will probably be,
not for the fate of their- victim, but for the cessation of
their own gains. They will " mourn over the golden
plumage, but forgqt the dying bird." On this point we
would recal the very just remarks made by the late Sir
John Malcolm on the Court of Baroda, which will be
found in his last book, " Government of India," Ap-
pendix A, page 5 :
" I must, in concluding this short record of Baroda
affairs, state, that the evils attending them, both as af-
fecting Tyajee and the Government, have been greatly
aggravated 6y ecwrzipt agents, instilling into his mind
false hopes of his receiving support from his Majesty's
Courts of Law at Bombay, and afterwards from the
visits of one of his principal agents to Calcutta. Proof
will be found of these facts in the records ; and they
are worthy of the serious attention of the authorities in
England. They may not be capable of complete re-
medy, but that should be applied as far as practicable,
for there exists not, amid the difficulties which must ever
attend that administration of the empire, one more likely
to generate corruption and intrigue, or which is more
calculated to hurry princes and chiefs to their ruin, than
that impression which low and interested men create
and maintain, of their being able to appeal in political
matters, beyond the local Government under whom
they are placed."

The Rajah's conduct may appear incomprehensible to
those not behind the scenes, but to the latter it is easily
explained. From the day he was placed on the throne,
instead of being grateful for the favours bestowed, he
was dissatisfied, and thought himself injured by our re-
taining any part of the Peishwa's territories. In
proof of this, we may quote the following passage from
Grant Duff's History, p. 483, vol. lii.

" The Rajah Portab Siew (or Sing) was in his twenty-
seventh year, naturally intelligent, and surrounded by
men of profligate character, and ignorant of everything
except the etiquette and parade of a Court. His whole
family entertained the most extravagant ideas of their
own consequence, and their expectations were propor-
tionate, so that, for a time, the bounty which they ex-
perienced was not duly appreciated."
Though released from captivity to sit upon a throne
—though gratuitously placed by British arms in the
possession of the most compact and productive princi-
pality of the Deccan, yielding a net income of nearly
fifteen lacs of rupees—the ex-Rajah was discontented
with his lot, and restless for the possession of greater
power. A dissatisfaction at his situation has existed in
his mind for several years, arising out of the British
authorities resisting his unfounded claim—a claim, too,
directly opposed to the terms of the treaty—to be con-
sidered lord paramount in respect to the foreign posses-
sions of his Jageerdars, as he was admitted to be in
regard to their poi.sessions within the boundaries of the
Sattara territories, as defined in the schedule to the
treaty. _ _

He rested his pretensions on vague and general expres-
sions in respect to these Jageerdars in letters to him from
Mr. Elphinstone, all of which were, of course, to be go-
verned and controlled by the explicit terms of the treaty,
which he himself signed, and by which alone he became
a Sovereign at all. His Highness, however, would not
be satisfied with any interpretation except own,
though bound by another article of this treaty to he
entirely guided by the British Resident ; and his dis-
appointment in these ambitious views may be presumed
to have added acrimony to the correspondence which
he always unquestionably maintained with the other
native powers, and to which the late disturbed state of
India may be supposed to have given much encourage-
ment.

We may refer also to the sth article of the Treaty of
the 25th of September, 1819, quoted in the subjoined
proclamation, which proves that the framers of the
treaty were fully aware of this bent of his mind, and
ende'tvoured, but in vain, to secure him from the con-
sequences which have ensued. But perhaps the truest
and most prophetic sketch of hischaracter and probable
destiny is to be found in the following extract from a
letter from Colonel Briggs, dated as far back as the Ist
of January, Ig27:

He is, however, tenacious of his prerogatives, and
will every day more; and mbre resent our control. He
has lately been flattered by those around him in errone-
ous estimates of his own importance ; he has already
evinced strong inclinations to extend his connections
beyond the limits prescribed by treaty. It will be for-
tunate, perhaps, for his Highness himself if events
afford this Government an early opportunity to give him
timely warning of the danger he is incurring, or I should
be very apprehensive that he may succeed in involving
himself in secret communications with those who may
at some future period provoke the resentment of Go-
vernment, when it is likely a development of a system
of intrigue with his Highness may take place, which
will altogether shake our confidence and may lead to his
ultimate ruin."

The partisans of the ex-Rajah in Bombay, whether
believing him innocent or believing him merely
rich, and as such a fitting carcase for the vul-
tures to gather on, little know the mass of
conclusive evidence to his guilt, oral and documentary,
which is now in possession of Government. The title
which he bad assumed in his own Court, and by which
he had latterly been addressed by his agents, Hindu
Pud Padsham Sirkar, or Emperor of the Hindus, is in
itself a sufficient index to the insane pretensions which
his miserable deluders had led him to entertain.

Thus, after a lapse of twenty-two years, the Rajah of
Sattara has followed the example and met the fate of
his former enemy, the Peishwa Bajee Row.
It would be curious to learn the feelings of the lat-
ter when he hears the intelligence. The ex-Rajah may
ere long be a neighbouring pensioner to the ex-Peishwa,
and both may then speculate in company on the muta-
bility of human greatness—may

"sit upon the ground,
And tell strange stories of the deaths of Kings."
It were more profitable for those still in possession of
power (we allude especially to Baroda, Sinde, and Joud-
pore) to take a lesson from the fall of these princes—

Discite justitiam moniti et non ternnere divos."
But wisdom crictli in the streets in vain. The lesson
so inculcated is never learnt by heart.

PROCLAMATION,

ISSUED BY THE RESIDENT AT SATTARA, UNDER THE
AUTHORITY OF THE '.ION. SIR JAMES RIVETT, CARNAC.
BART., GOVERNOIt OF BOMBAY, DATED SATTARA,
SEPTEMBER 5, 1839.

1. When the British Government was compelled by
the unprovoked hostility of Bajee Row to declare war
against him, a proclamation dated the 11th of February,
1818, wr.s issued by the Hon. Mr. Elphinstone, sole
Comini-ssioner for the settlement of the territories con-
quered from the Peishwa, setting forth the circum-
stances which had rendered that measure imperative.
In this it was announced as follows :

" The Rajah of Sa,tara, who is now a prisoner in
Nee Row's hands, will be released, and placed:at the
head of an independent sovereignty of such an extent
as may maintain the Rajah and his family in comfort
and dignity. With this view, the fort of Sattara has
been taken, the Rajah's flag has been set up in it, and
his former Ministers have been called into employment.
Whatever country is assigned to the Rajah will be ad-
ministered by him, and he will be bound to establish a
system of justice and order, The rest of the country
will be held by the Honourable Company. The reve-
nue will be collected by the Government, but all proper-
ty, real or personal, will be secured. All Wuttun and
Enam (hereditary lands), Wursha Arms, annual sti-
pends, and all religious and charitable establishments,
will be protected, and all religious sects will be tolerated,
and their customs maintained, as far as is just and rea-
sonable."

Yv
having been rescued from
2. The Rajah of Sattara,
captivity on the defeat of the Peishwa at Aehtee, was,
pursuant to the above declaration,placed on the throne,
and a treaty of alliance and friendship was concluded
between his lighness and the British Government,
ett'ed the 25th of Soptemb2r, 1819. By the second

article of this compact the RS ah: for himself and for his
lt6rs and stfcce!sOrst.,engageu tp held his, tetaitoty in
subordinate co-operation with the British doverunient,
and to be guided it all matters by the advice of the
British agent at his Highness's Court, By the .011
article the Rajah, for hiniself arid EI:A his heirs and toe-
cessors, engaged to forbeaf from all intercPutse with
Forhign VOweri, and all 6irdirlia, Jagheedars,
Chiefs, and Ministers, and all persons of whatever des-
cription who were not not rendered subject to his autho-
rity, and to abstain from all connection or Correspondence
with them. It was further stipulated by the same article
that any affairs that might arise with the aforesaid
states, and persons relating to his Highness should
be exclusively conducted by the British Government,
and that if (for the purpose of forming matrimonial
connections for his Highness's family, or for any other
purpose) his Highnesa should have occasion to com-
municate with persons not rendered subject to his
authority, such communication should be made entirely
through the political agent. Finally, it was declared
that this article was a fundamental condition of the
agreement, and that any departure from it on the
Rajah's part would subject him to the loss of all the
advantages secured to him by the said treaty.
3. Notwithstanding this solemn compact, it has been
conclusively established, to the conviction of the Bri-
tish Government, that the Rajah, unmindful of his
obligations, and of the generosity which restored him to
liberty and conferred on him a throne, has for a series
of years held clandestine communications, contrary to
the stipulations contained in the sth article of the
treaty ; that he has cherished ambitious designs hostile
to the British Government ; that he has advanced
claims and pretensions incompatible with the letter and
spirit of the treaty ; and that he has conducted himself
in a manner subversive of the alliance formed between
the two States.

4. Nevertheless, the British Government, willing to
believe that the Rajah had been betrayed into these
acts by the counsels of evil and designing men, and in
the hope and expectation that the Rajah would appre
elate its clemency, and abandon the dangerous course
into which he had been seduced, had resolved to over-
look and forgive the past, on his agreeing for the future
to act strictly and in good faith, according to the treaty ;
to dismiss from his councils the Minister who had been
chiefly instrumental in creating disunion between the
two States ; and to abstain from injuring those persons
through whose information his violations of the treaty
had been established.
5. With this view the Honourable Sir James Rivett
Carnac, Bart., Governor of Bombay, vested with full
authority from the Right Honourable Lord Auckland,
Governor-General of India, proceeded in person to
Sattara, and having explained to the Rajah the danger-
ous position in which he had placed himself, and having
communicated both verbally and in writing, the condi-
tions on which the British Government was willing to
grant an amnesty for the past, urged him to the com-
pliance with these terms, as the only mode by which re-
lations of amity and friendship with him could be
restored.

6. Tne Rajah, after repeated conferences, and ample
opportunity for reflection, and after having been ex-
plicitly warned of the consequences, rejected these con-
ditions ; and the British Government being, therefore,
convinced that it is impossible any longer to maintain
friendly relations with a Prince who has shown himself
so regardless of a treaty, entered into under the peculiar
circumstances above recited, hereby declares the alli-
ance between the two States dissolved, and its intention
to enforce the penalty specified in the sth article of the
treaty entered into by the Rajah, and dated the 25th of
September, 1819.

7. The British Government, however, having no
views of advantage and aggrandizement,has resolved to
invest the brother and next in succession to the Rajah
with the sovereignty of the Sattara State, according to
the limits fixed by the treaty of the 25th of September,
1819. He is therefore proclaimed Rajah of Sattara,
nattier the title of Shreemunt Mabaraj Shajee Rajee
Chutturputty of Sattara, and all persons residing within
his territory are hereby required to render to him al-
_ .

(Signed) C. OVANS, Resident at Sattara.

PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE.

NOTE OE THE BARON DA ItIBEI RA DE SABROSA OF THE
28TH SEPTEMBER, 1839, IN REPLY TO THE NOTE OF
LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN OF THE 15TH OF THE
SAME MONTH AND YEAR.
The undersigned, President of the Council of Mini-
sters charged with the Department of Foreign Affairs,
has the honour to receive a note which, under date of
the 15th of the current month, was addressed to him
by Lord Howard de Walden, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty, in
which his Lordship appears to fear the effect that the
publication of the note might have, which, in answer to
those of his Lordship of the 28th of April and sth of
Msy last, the undersigned sent to his Lordship—not on
the 9th, as his Lordship inadvertently states, but on the
11th instant—unless it were accompanied by a reply
from his Lordship.
The too great deference of her Majesty's Govern-
ment for that of Great Britain, in delaying the publica-
tion of its correspondence with his Lordship, has, per-
haps, made Portugal appear defenceless in a controversy
a hich, in England, has been so much misrepreseted.
If, then, in order not to defer any longer the know-
ledge of the real state of the question in Portugal, one
or other of the notes of his Excellency the Viscount
de Sada Bandeira, and even that of the undersigned,
have been lately published in the hiario do Governo,
Lord Howard de Walden needs not apprehend that his
Lordship's own notes will be omitted. Her Majesty's
Government is the first interested in their publication,
and his Lordship will find in a collection of the impor-
tant documents relative to the negotiation of the treaty
between Portugal and Great Britain for the total abo-
lition of the slave trade, which will soon be out of the
press, the note to which the undersigned now answers.
In it we read that his Lordship denies, once for all,
ever having consented to sign the treaty, such as it
was, when his Lordship left Lisbon on the 23d of May,
1838, or ever having agreed wiVi his Excellency the
Viscount de Sada Bandeira that the slave trade should
not be declared piracy, whilst with the most formal
contradiction his Lordship transcribes in his own note
a project of the declaration proposed by his Lordship
to the Viscount himself, for the purpose of being
signed by both, in which his Lordship, omitting
entirely the pretended declaration of piracy, and content
with the simple promise that Portugal should follow, in
this respect, the example of the other European Powers,
binds himself to sign " sub spe rati" that very treaty
which had been agreed upon, and which his Lordship so
much praises, saying that it contains " important stipu-
lations, perfectly agreeable, in many momentous re-
spects, with the principles and circumstantiated disposi-
tions of the project presented by his Lordship to the
Government of Portugal."
How can all this accord with Lord. Howard de Wal-
den's assertion of never having agreed to the treaty ?
How can we construe the bitter censure which his
Lordship affixes to the stipulations of the treaty in his
netes of the 28th of April and sth of May last, after
his encomiums of them ? Why are those very stipula-
tions, once so much praised by his Lordship, now re-
jected
.under the name of pretensions of the Portuguese
Government, and as such contested ?
Both 'this project of declaration presented by his
Lordship, and his subsequent note of the 20th of May,
1838, in which it is asserted that to declare the slave
trade piracy was a condition sine qua non for the signing
of the treaty, were presented pro forma by his Lord-
ship, because it suited the purposes of his Government
that its presentation should be known ; but so convinced
was his Lordship of the impossibility of making such a
declaration in Portugal, that not only the treaty without
it had been agreed upon, but even in his most confidential
letter, the copy of which accompanied the note of the
undersigeed of the 11 th instant, his Lordship suggested
the answer that ought to be given to the requisition of
his Government, in conformity with which it was that
his Excellency Viscount de Sada Bandeira replied in
his note of the 22d May to his Lordship's already.cited
note of the 20th of the same month.
The •:arhlnce which also, according to his Lordship's
ass'4rtion, had always existed between himself and the
Viscount, concerning the additional article, by which
Great Britain was to guarantee to Portugal it% trans-
atlantic dominions, was at the time of his Lordship's
departure for London of very little importance.
His Lordship, in his project against the additional
article, promised an effective aid to Portugal when this
should be demanded to preserve the tranquility and
safety of those- dominions ; and the object, nature,
quantity, and duration of this aid was to be regulated
by a special agreement, respecting which the two Go-
vernments ought immediately to commence negotia-
tions,

In the last project of the additional article presented
by his Excellency Viscount de Sada Bandeira, for the
stipulation of the aid in question, as a proof of her Bri-
tannic Majesty's solicitude in fulfilling the treaties of
alliance and guarantee existingibetween the two Crowns,
the nature, quality, and quantity of this aid, as well as
the manner in which it was to be demanded by the
Portuguese, and rendered by the British authorities,
was left also to be settled by the two Governments,
through negociations which ought to commence imme-
diately, and be terminated by the time the ratifications
should be exchanged.
From this simple exposition may be judged how far
the variance had been obviated which from the begin-
ning, had existed concerning this stipulation ; and the
negociation having arrived at this point, it was easy to
reconcile what still remained of it, and sign the treaty
otherwise already agreed upon, if Lord Howard de
Walden had pleased to defer his departure for London
His Excellency, Viscount de Sada Bandeira is not
at present in the Ministry to answer the observations
which, as it appears in his note, his Lordship. deemed
proper to make in his correspondence to London upon
what had passed personally between both Planiperten-
tiaries in this negotiation ; but there are in the depart-
ment of the Secretary of State authentic doom, tents
which entirely verify the Viscount's expositions in his

notes of the 22d of May and 6th of October, 1668;1
and those of the undersigned Q f the llth inst.
The bfikinat ptoJect of the treaty, in which all the
amenamenis PrtvoLted fr.,) tht: tigeount and approvcdby
Lord Howard de Walden arc written Lordabies
own band, still exists ; and, for greater authencity,
page of this document in signed by both. It was com-
pared hi this depattment by the Secretary of the Bri-
tish Legation, Mr. Cfai,'Eiii; W 17e Itfiften off and signed,
which certainly could not be done if it iiiefd Wit agreed
upon. The same secretary said very positively and
formally hi his letter, the copy of which accompanied
the note of the undersigned of the 11th instant, that
his Lordship considered the treaty as concluded with
the riscoulit.
His Lordship also declared itt his own letter, a copy
of which accompanied that note, that his Lordship had
adopted all the amendments made by the Viscount to
the different articles of the treaty, desiring the copying
of it to be hastened.

The letter in which his Lordship suggested the
answer to be given by the Portuguese Government,
according to what his Lordship deemed most convenient
to justify the omission in the treaty of the clause de-
claring the slave trade to be piracy, exists also.
How could all these facts exist, all this be done,
unless his Lordship were in perfect accord with the
Viscount de Si da Bandeira ? How can it still be
doebted that there was a treaty definitely agreed upon
by both Plenipotentiaries ?
The undersigned deems it proper to insist no longer
in his arguments, in answer to the subterfuges employed
in Lord Howard de Walden's last note to veil those
facts,lfor the reason that the undersigned is aware of the
difficult position in which his Lordship was thrown by
the notes sent in answer to the Viscount de Sa Bandeira,
whose object is not to disprove any declarations that his
Lordship might have made, but to deny the existence
of proofs that, being written by his Lordship's own
hand, must appear indisputable.
The undersigned avails himself with great satisfaction
of this new opportunity to have the honour of repeating
to Lord Howard de Walden the protestations of his
most distinguished consideration.
(Signed)
BARON DA RIBEIRA DE SABROSA.
Department for Foreign Atratres, Sept. 28, 1839.

THE BARQUE "STATESMAN," OF
LIVERPOOL-HER PERILOUS SITUATION
AMID THE ICE.

In our ship news of Saturday week we mentioned the
arrival of the barque Statesman, Captain Quiller, from
Sydney, New South Wales, and that she had been, in
the course of her voyage, beset during thirty-six hours
by ice. 'lnc following is an abstract of the particulars;
as detailed in the log. About noon, on the Bth of
August last, in lat. 58 degrees south, long. 60 degrees
west, with fresh breeze and hazy weather, several ice-
bergs were seen, one of which being upon the weather
bow they passed about half a mile to the westward.
Upon its side, climibing towards the summit, they saw
two objects, very like men. They immediately wore
round and made sail, with the intention, if possible, of
ascertaining what these two creatures might be. They
sailed close past the island and distinctly saw about one
hundred animals, of some description, some black and
some white, apparently about seven feet high. Those
on board came to the conclusion that they were either
seals or sea elephants. At five o'clock they lost sight
of the iceberg, and about seven they tacked close to
what appeared to be another. Shortly after this they
began to discover that the sea was covered with masses
of floating ice, which increased till between nine and
ten o'clock, when :a large
.piece struck the bow of
the vessel, and caused her to let in water. Be-
tween this time and the following morning they
were continually getting in and out of the loose ice.
and passng in the vicinity of icebergs. At one moment
they were flattered that they were clear of all further
risk, by fading themselves in clear water, and the next
they were again entangled amongst the masses of
ice, which struck the ship with great violence, shaking
her fearfully. At daylight they found she had sustained
considerable damage, the cutwater having, where it
joined the water, been utterly destroyed to the stem.
The first plank below the main walls, on the luff of the
bow, was stove in, so as to admit great quantities of
water ; and the copper on both sides, at the bends, was
completely rubbed away. It now became necessary to
have the pumps regularly attended, and to use the utmost
vigilance and skill, in hope of rescuing the ship from the
dangers by which she was beset. When the day had
completely broke, the packed ice was visible in all di-
rections, as far as the eye could see from the mast-
head. Sail was made in every direction which offered
a prospect of getting into clear water, and many were
the disappointments which followed. They were sur-
rounded by floating islands, and frequently, for a
moment, they were clear of the ice, and in an instant
were again beset. During the whole of the afternoon
their spirits were wearied by this continued succession of
alternate hopes and disappointments. The day closed
around them, and still, so far as the vision could pene-
trate, they were surrounded by, as the Captain ex-
presses it, " a hopeless and dense mass of ice." Their
fears were increased throughout the evening by the ship
striking hard and grinding against the solid ribs of ice.
At length a black streak of water was seen, extending
from W. to N.W., right ahead of them. They made
efforts to reach it ; and though the ship did not appear
to move through the water, yet, in about an hour':
time, about half-past nine o'clock p.m., they got into
clear water, and were but little troubled with ice during
the remainder of the night. In the morning, at day-
light, they got entirely clear, but it was evident that
they were not far from the scene of their danger, as
they saw about twenty icebergs—some very high, al-
most on every side of them. The Captain states that
at nine o'clock on the Friday evening, only half-an-hour
before they got into clear water, he thought their fate
was scaled, as he did not see the least prospect of get-
ting out of their dangerous predicament. The black
line of water then in sight only appeared like another
of those small open spaces of clear water which had so
frequently tantalised them. The ship had for some
time been striking and grinding so fearfully that it was
deemed that nothing less than a miracle could keep her
afloat till morning. We may add to the above inte-
resting particulars of the Statesman that she sailed from
Sydney on the 19th of June last, and has brought to
Liverpool the largest cargo of wool ever imported from
New South Wales. It consists of no less than 1,188
bags, weighing 336,760 lbs.—Liverpool Albion.