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.iga.
the viii
.Lig out the ringleaders
mutinous proceedings. It was neris-',
sequence to order the regiment to a stata
Ivestigation could take place, and it viiite fed
,_
frm the frontier into cantonments to Arc;
ilist because the men did duty between
mutiny and the removal of the regiment to
Arcot, they ought not to be amenable to a court-
martial. The plain answer to that was, that the duty
,which military law intended in such cases was active
service, mei not, as in this instance, merely marching
from one place to another. But he would read to the
Court the opinion of Sir William Follett, then At-
torney-General, Sir P. Thesiger, then Solicitor-
General, and Mr. Loftus IVigram, standing counsel
to the East India Company, which would, he trusted
satisfy the Hon. Proprietor as to the legality of the
court-martial and the competency of its proceedings
in relation to the Sepoys. lie might add, that all
the papers in the possession of the Court of Direc-
tors had been placed before those learned gentle-
men. Their opinion, then, was, that the letter
of the Deputy• Adjutant General to the Cum-
mailder of the regiment, ordering the restoration
of their pay, and sanctioning their return to duty,
would not render the subsequent investigation illegal,
nor invalidate the trial of the ringleaders before a
court-rnartial. Their opinion further was, tha.
although the regiment had for nine months been al-
lowed to de duty and retain its arms, there was no
irregularity in afterwards tre ing and punishing those
who had been principals in the mutinous proceedings.
Mr. SULLIVAN wished to see the case upon which
the opinion had been given. He had no wish, how-
ever, to stand up against the opinion of the law officers
whose names had been mentioned, if they had been
fairly put in possession of all the facts.
The CHAIRMAN repeated that all the papers in pos-
srssion of the directors had been laid before the
learned gentlemen before their opinion was giver.
Mr. Sergeant GASELEB thought it inexpedient to
bring such questions before the Court, not because the
proprietors were not entitled to consider them, but be-
cause many gentlemen merely attended to support the
directors without knowing the merits of any case
that might be before them. The Hon. Proprietor
(Mr. Sullivan) had, however, put himself out of
court by resting the case upon a legal opinion. In
his own view the unfortunate Sepoys had not been
fairly treated.
Mr. CLARKE considered the introduction of such
questions exceedingly objectionable, because calcu-
lated to lead the native soldiers of India to suppose
they had in the Court of Proprietors a court of
appeal through which they might escape the conse-
quences of guilt. lie regarded the motion as neither
more nor less than a persuasion to insubordination.—
(" No," and " Ilear.")
Mr. GORDON strongly denounced the proceeding;
of the Court of Directors in this matter. He consi-
dered them a self-elected and corrupt corporation.—
(Loud cries of " Order, order ; " Chair.")
The CHAIRMAN—I cannot sit in this chair and
hear such language as that applied to the Court of
Directors.
Mr. Goenos—Then leave it.—(Loud laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN, having restored order, put the
motion to a show of hands, and it was lost by a con-
siderable majority.
'TIE AMEERS OF SINDE.
Captain DICKENSON then rose to make the motion
of which he had given notice, with respect to the
exiled Ameers of Sinde
:
That (hi', Court, deeply lamenting the prolonged
exile of the Princes of Sinde and the failure of those
endeavours from time to time made for the termination
of their unmerited sufferines, most earnestly recom-
mend to the Court of Directors that an opportunity be
eff Ided such of them as survive to be heard in their de-
fence before some competent and impartial tribunal, to be
nominated by the Government of India, and, it innocent,
that they be reinstated in their private rights ; also that
a like consideration, where the same may appear equi-
table, be extended to the heirs of such of the Ameers as
have died in captivity.
‘• That the following papers be laid Way. the Court
of Proprietors:—
' " Copy of the treaty entered into by Captain Seton,
in behalf of the Bombay Government with the Hydrabad
State in the year 1808.
" Copy of the instructions furnished the envoy who
was deputed to Hydrabad to annul the above treaty.
" Copies of the returned letters to the late Nur Ma-
homed Chief' Ameer of ilydrabad alluded to in the Go-
vorn,r-General's dispatch to the Secret Committee,
under date 21st Feb., 1838.
•• Copies of other unpublished letters from Nur Ma-
homed abcut the same time explanatory of his unwillieg-
ness to : ccede to the Governor-General's proposals.
" Copy of the unpab.ished portion of the Sccr4ury to
the Governor-General's letter to the Resident of Snide,
under date 6th September, 1838.
"Statement of the respective portions of territory,
which were guaranteed by separate treaties to the Hydra-
bad Ameers by the treaty of the 11th March, 1839.
" List of the Ameers who have teen consigned to
exile, showing the stipends which they have from time
to time received."
Colonel DICKINSON said—l regret Mr. Chairman,
that among my reasons for this delayed motion in
favour of the Ameers of Sinde, I should have occa-
sion to bring so prominently forward the apparent
disregard of those reiterated assurances from the
chair that measures had been taken, and would ho
persevered in, with the view of obtaining fur these
still exiled princes that redress to which their un-
merited sufferings gives them such an all-powerful
claim, as will more fully appear by the following
brief' recapitulation of our proceedings to which
I allude:—Under date Sept. 23, 18-16
The Chairman said that possibly the choice of the
Hon. Mover might be obtained without pressing his
motion to a division. He perhaps desired to know
what had been done in reference to the subject of his
motion. Ile (the Chairman) would therefore state that
a dispatch had been forwarded some time since, calling
for the opinion of the Government of India upon the en-
tire question—upon the whole state of affairs with regard
to Sinde. The war in the Punjaub had intervened, and,
without doubt, had prevented an answer being returned.
Since its conclusion,, the Court had reiterated the call, and
at no distant period they looked for a reply. As soon as
such communication should arrive it would become the
subject of the most serious and anxious deliberation on
the part of the Court. Under these circumstances, he
trusted that the Hon. Proprietor might not deem that
his duty required him to persevere in the motion, end
that the statement which bad been made would, in the
pre:.ent state of the proceeding, be regarded as satisfac-
tt ry.
Under date Dec. 16, 1846--
The Chairman said he could state nothing definitely
now. All he could say was, that the question bad ens
gaged, and was still engaging the serious attenlitai of
the Court of Directors.—The Court then on the motion
adjourned.
And under dire Sept. IS that
The Chairman believed the Court of Directors would
be found te be justified in the course they had ben
pursuing.—The Court adjourned at four o'clock.
Increased as the difficulties are against which myself
and more able coadjutors have to contend, by what
appears such systematic deception on the part of
those who invited, and on whom we accordingly reposed
so large a degree of confidence, we, nevertheless have
the satisfaction to know that there is in this most
righteous cause a principle of vitality, if I may so
speak, which is well calculated to keep alive hope,
and to animate us to continued exertion ; and for this
advantage we are, Mr. Chairman, immeasurably in-
debted to the body over which you so
ably preside ; for it is notorious that you
did, after a long and patient consideration
of all the circumstances attending the con-
fiscation of the Sinde principality, record your
conscientious belief that the wrongs thereby inflicted
on these princes were alike inexpedient, unjust, and
impolitic. Keeping in mind, gentlemen, this most
important fact, and that whenever this Court has been
moved to consider the claims of these princes, not
one of our executive ever came forward to palliate,
much less to justify, that most arbitrary decree
which has consigned them to dethronement, spo-
liation, and exile—an exile, as observed by
the late Premier, in the more recent case of one of the
Ceylon conspirators, worse than death itself, and of
the soul-rending effects of which, upon the Ameers,
some idea may be formed from their remark to Sir
George Arthur in one of his humane endeavours to
mitigate the bitterness of their woe, "we would
rather dwell under a tree in our own land than in
palaces among strangers"—keeping in mind, likewise,
Mr. Chairman, that when again and again invited so
to do, not one of your colleagues ever attempted to rebut
any one of the arguments advanced by my honourable
friend Mr. Sullivan in that masterly speech which Inow
hold in my hand, pronounced by one of your most
distinguished members to be among the very best
which had ever been delivered within these walls—
and in which, after enumerating those friendly con-
cessions front time to time made by the Ameers to
meet the views of the British Government, and the
violation of I don't know haw many solemn treaties
by the State, which had been so benefited—he trium-
phantly exonera`ed them from the gravamen of all
those charges which had been heaped upon them
since the year 1828. Yes, gentlemen, I do hope,
with such their claims to your commiseration,
that you will second my endeavours in
behalf of these friendless victims of our insatiable appe-
tite for territorial aggrandisement, in the name of
whom, and in the name of those millions of our native
subjects who have been taught to look to the purity,
the collective wisdom, and the independency of this
tribunal lent even-handed justice, I ask you to place at
our disposal every tittle of documentary evidence which
is calculated to awaken a greater interest than has yet
been manifested for the fate of these helpless sufferers,
and to efface that impression to their disadvan-
tage, which it has been the sedulous object of
the late and present Ministry to create by that
astounding declaration of the late Premier, " that the
Blue-book contains, substantially and fairly, all that
is material to the case ;" whereas, by the papers now
moved for it could be shown that the avowed grounds
of our first act of aggression against the independency
of Sinde as therein justified, are at variance with a