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the regiment, but directed art inveetiga-
with the view of finding out the ringleaders
re mutinous proceedings. It was neces-
in consequence to order the regiment to a station
ihe-irivestigation could take place, and it was
ied from the frontier into cantonments to Arcot.
It was said that because the men did duty between
the act of 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, and 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 F. Thesiger, then Solicitor-
General, and Mr. Loftus Wigram, 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. He might add, that all
the pap rs in the possession of the Court of Direc•
ors bad been placed before those learned gentle-
men. Their opinion, then, was, that the letter
of the Deputy-Adjutant General to the Com-
mander 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-martial. Their opinion further was, the-
although the regiment had for nine months been al-
lowed ro do duty and retain its arms, there was no
irregularity in afterwards trying 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 bud been mentioned, if they had been
fairly put in possession of all the facts.
The CHAIRMAN repeated that all the papers in pos-
session of the directors had been laid before the
lea-ned gentlemen before their opinion was giver.
Mr. Sergeant GASELER 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 Hein: 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. CLARIER considered the introduction of such
enestions 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 ofguilt.- He regarded the motion as neither
more nor less" than a persuasion to insubordination.—
(" No,'' and " Hear.")
Mr. GORDON strongly denounced the proceedirgs
of the Court of Directors in this matter. He consi-
&reel them a self•elected and corrupt corporation.—
(Loud cries of " Order, order ; " Chair.")
The CitelnatAle—l cannot sit in this chair and
hear such language as that-applied to the Court of
Directors.
Mr. GORDON—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.
THE AMEERS OF SINDE.
Captain DICRENFON then rose to make the motion
of. which he had given notice, with respect to the
exiled Ameers of Sinde :
" That this 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 sufferings, most earnestly recom-
mend to the Coart of Dirt ctors that an °piss:nullity be
.tf,rded such of them as suryive to be heard in their de-
fence before some competent and impartial tribunal, to be
nominated by the Government of 'Lelia, and, if 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 Amcers as
have died in captivity.
`• That the following papers be laid beft.r© 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 aer.ul the above treaty.
" Copies of the returned letters to the late Nur Ma-
homed Chief Ameer of Ilydraba.l alluded to in the Go-
v-reer•General's dispatch to The Secret Committee,
under date 21st Feb., 1838.
Copies of other unpublished letters hem Nur Ma-
homed ate ut the same time explanatory of his unwilling.
ness to coeds to the Governor-General's proposals.
"Cop) 01 the unveil) 'stied portion of the Seery ary to
the Governor-Gvnerel'a letter to the Resident of Snide,
under date 6th September, 1838.
" Statsment of the respective portions of territory,
which *ere guaranteed by separate treaties to the Hydrae
t.ad Ameers by the treaty of the 11th Mardi, 18,"A.
" List of the Arne' rs who have l e,n consigned to
exile, shosing the stipends vi Mutt they have from time
to time received."
Colonel Diceostsorr said--I regret Mr. Chairmen,
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 th::.* apparent
disteg .rd of those reiterated assurances from the
chair that measures had been taken, and would his
persevered in, with the view of obtaining for these
still exiled princes that redress to which their un-
merited sufferings gives them such an all-powerful
claim, as will more Tully appear by the follow big
brief recapitulation of our proceedings to which
I alltCe : Under date Sept. 23, 1846
The Chairman said that possibly the choice of the
lion. Mover might be obtained isiihout pressing his
motion to a division. lie p,-rhups &tired to know
what Lad been done in reference to the subj• et of his
motion. He (the Chairman) would therefore state that
a dispatch had been foraarded some time sincv, calling
for the opinion of the Government ot India upon the en-
tire question—upon the a lio!e stater)f of aiis with regtird
to Snide. The war in the Punjaub had intervered, and,
without doubt, had prevented an answer being returt ed.
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
trus,t-d that the lion. Proprietor might not deem th-•t
his duty required him to persevere in the motion, end
that trio statement welch had been made would, in the
present state of the proceeding, be regarded as satisfac-
n
Under data Dec. 16 ,1846
The Chairman raid tic could state nothing definitely
now. All he could say was, that the question had en-
gaged, and was still engaging the serteus atttntie n of
the Court of Directors.—The Court then on the motion
adjourned.
And under da'e Sept. 18 that
The Chairman belieyen the Court of Directors would
be found ts be justified in the course they had b en
pursuing.—The Court adjourned at four o'clock.
Increased as the difficulties are against which myself
and more able coadjutors hive to contend, by et hat
appears such sys'eniatic 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 moat
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 thin 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 then 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 I now
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 from time to time made by the Ameers to
meet the views of the British Government. and the
violation of I don't know h)w many so'emn treaties
by the State, which hau been so benefitei.—oe trium-
phantly exonera ed them from the gravamen of all
these charges which had been heaped upon them
since the year 1828. Yes, gentletnen, I do hope,
with such th- it claims to your cominisenition,
that you will second •my endeavours ill
behalf of these friendless victims of our inswiable ai•pe
tire for te.ritorial aggranuisement, fu tilt, IJt:trrb of
whom, and in the name of those millions of our native
subjects who have been taught to loi:k to the purity,
the collective wisdom, and the. ;ad of this
tribunal or even. banded justice, I ;:sk you to place at
our disposal every tittle of documentary ev ace which
is calculated to awaken a greater :use-re:4 than i)as yet
been mani:tsted for the fate of those helpi-zs sufferers,
and to efface that impression to their disadvan-
tage, which it has been tae sedulous object of
the late and present Alini3try to ert,.ite by that
astounding declaration of the late Pr: "that the
Blue book contsins, subJtanti,ily and h stay, Ali that
is material to the case ;" wi,ereus, pvers vow
moved for it c: .10d be shown tliat Ai, :Iv wed gimimis
of our first act of aggre.,sion against the independency
of Sinde as therein justified, are at variance with a