The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-06 00:00:00

POLKAS.

Herminie ... Handley.
Zingara Coote.
Emily Brawne.
Ariel •• ••• ••• ••• Tinney.
Carnaval Galop ........Macfarlane.
Soon after ten o'clock dancing commenced in the
Trone-room, where a quadrille band of thirty per-
formers, conducted by Mr. Charles Coote, attended.
The following dances were executed:—
QUADRILLES.

Attila ... ... ...
Troubadour ... ... ...
Fountain ... ... ...
I Masnidiere (first time) ...
Shakespere ... ... ...
Versailles ... ... ...
Wilson (Songs of Scotland)

... Coote.
... Bosisis.
... Coote.
... Tinney.
... Coote.
... Musard.
... Coote.

... Tinney.
... Labitzky.
... D'Albert.
... Strauss.
... Coote.
... Tinney.

... Tinney.
... Coote.
... D'Albert.
... Coote.
... Strauss.
... Ceote.

The following had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess Die-

trichsteie, and the Gentlemen Attaches to the Embassy;
the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, and
the Gentlemen Attaches to the Legation; the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Argentine Minister
and Gentleman Attaché to the Legation ; the Portu-
guese :Minister te Viscountess do Moncorro, and the
Gentlemen Attaci ; the Russian Minister and Ba-
roness Brunow, Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner and the
Gentlemen Attaches ; the Sicilian Minister, and the
Gentleman Attaché ; the Hanoverian Minister, and the
Gentleman Attache ; the Wurtemberg Minister, and the
Gentleman Attache; the Prussian Minister, and Madame
Bunsen; Mademoiselle Bunsen, Mademoiselle Mary Bun-
sen, and the Gentlemen Attaches ; his Serene Highness
Prince Lowenstein; the Brazilian Minister and Madame
Marques Lisboa and the Gentlemen Attaches; the
Danish Minister and Countess de Reventlow, Countess
Hilda de Reventlow, and the Gentleman Attaché; the
Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki and the Gen-
tleman Attaché, the American Minister and Mrs. Ban-
croft and the Gentleman Attache, the Netherlands
Minister and Mademoiselle Schimmelpenninck, and the
Gentlemen Attaches, the INew Grenada Minister and
the Gentleman Attache, the Mexican Minister and the
Gentlemen Attache., the Swedish Minister and Baroness
de Rehausen and the Gentleman Attaché; the Sardinian
Minister and the Gentlemen Attaches, the Saxon
nister and Baroness de Beust, Prince Luborairski, le
Duc et la Duchesse de Coigny, Mademoiselle de Coigne',
Baron and Baroness Bertouch, le Due et la Duchesse de
Melfort, Major Williams, Syndicus Banker, Baron
D'Ugglas, Count Desgeneys, Mr. and Mrs. Jay, of New
York, Baron and Baroness de Linden, Baron de Plessin,
M. de Lomonoss,ff, le Marquis de Salvo, le Marquis et
la Marquise de Lousada, Mdlle. Brauealeone, the Lord-
Chancellor, the Gold Stick in waiting, the Right Hon.
the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Mayor
and the Lady Mayoress, the Silver Stick in waitinr'
the Pages of Honour, the Hon. W. F. Forbes and Mr'
G. Grant Gordon; the Field Officer in Brigade waiting
Colonel J. Chaplin; the Adjutant in Brigade waiting,
Captain J. Halkett; officer commanding the Grenadier
Guards, Colonel J. Home; officer commanding the Scuts
Fusilier Guards, Colonel Berkeley Drummond; offie'er
commanding the Coldstream Guards; officer command'
ing Ist battalion Grenadier Guards, Colonel J. R. Cron'
furd; officer commanding 2d battalion, Colonel P. j•
Stanhope; officer commanding 3d battalion, Colonel W
Fludyer ; officers of the Ist battalion Grenadier Guard,.
Colonel J. Dixon, Captain C. Lennox, B. Maitland,
Lieutenant W, E. H. Vere; officers of the 2d Battalion
Grenadier Guards, Captain Hon. C. 11. Lindsay; Lieut.
H. L. Wilson; officers of the 3d Battalion, Lieutenant'
Colonel Reynardson, Major J. A. Udney, Lieutenant S•
Burr; officers commanding Ist Battalion Coldstreant
Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Windham; officer
commanding 2d Battalion, Colonel C. M. Hay; officers
of the Ist Battalion, Captain C. H. White, LieutensT,
R. D. Sulivan; officers of the 2d Battalion, Captain St'
J. Harington, Lieutenant H. Jolliffe ; officer con;
mending Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards. Colonel
W. J. Knollys; officer commanding 2d Battalion, Co':
lonel H. Coivile; officers of the Ist Battalion, Lieutenso:
Colonel Bathurst, Captain H. P. Hepburn, Lieutenant'
F. Fortescue; officers of the 2d Battalion, Colonel 6'
Dixon, Captain W. J. Ridley, Lieutenant W. Aitchison,'
officer commanding Ist Life Guards, Colonel John 'OD,'
four officers, Sir William Fraser, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Lee"
Mr. Tardrew; officer commanding 2d Life Guards.
Colonel M‘Douall; four officers, Captain Vyse, Caetsi°
Freke, Captain Tollemache, Lieutenant Lumley; officer,
commanding Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant-Coke,
G. Smith; four officers, Captain Baillie, Captain B.
Vyse, Captain A. B. Hood, Captain Lord A. Lenncoci
officer commanding 12th Lancers, Lieutenant-Colo09:
E. Pole; three officers, Captain Maunsell, Lieutennlii
Sutton, Lieutenant Prior: officer commanding the Roftir
Engineers, Major-General Sir John F. Burgoyne; ft/tjel
officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, Lieutenant-Colon
Jebb, C. 8.; Major Vicars, Major Walpole; officer tom;
mending the Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-General Si
Thomas Downman; four officers, Major Cuppage, B. ei
Lieutent. Colonel Bell, R.H.A.; Lieutenant-Colon
Wright, Major James, &c.
Supper was served in the State Dinner-room, on
long range of tables, which were decorated with
number of elegant epergnes, vases, and candelabra !),4
silver gilt; white on the buffet were tastefully arrant;
jewelled and crystal cups, tankards sculptured in iv 0110;
shields and salvers of the largest size, and gold vases,,,d
which were inserted different plants of great beauty 04,0
variety, the whole being illuminated with candalnu
and sconces filled with wax-lights. • bi
His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, attendect,ol
Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, visited the Royal Botanic
Gardens, in the Regent's-park, yesterday. • 03
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent 119 it
the Queen yesterday.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Netili
s
Debt held a meeting yesterday in the Treasury. Ibto
were present the Chancellor of the Exchequer, te
Governor of the Bank of England, and the Dell‘te
I Governor. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptrol
General, attended.

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VI .1 UL 1B IR.
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EAST INDIA HOUSE. made to invalidate the adoption of the Raja, by '
had not had
A srecial general Court of this company was held
reference to the case of the Guignor and other THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 55 1848. any man hale
, sovereign princes of India with their j;ThE ciders,
ness, Jury, ar
yesterday, at the East India House, for the purpose
; had no bearing whatever upon the que.F-
consequently
of considering the following motion, the bringing
It had been attempted to be 84111 No. 1.-An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of July, 1847, and sth of July, 1848, showing the tion. Under
forward of which had been given notice of by Air. Sui- tion.
that because the Raja agreed to the curtailment of his lncreasi or Decrease on each head thereof. might have
liven :-" That the Honourable the East India Corn-
sovereign power as a prince, under certain circum- QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUARTERS ENDED YEAR ' Year ended July 5. /Quarter ended July b. heirs and st
pony having by a treaty concluded with Pertaub
stances, that, therefore, he forfeited his right to be ( ~ , ended , .., , ended
Y ,____...,.... --, failed; and, t
Skean, the Raja of Sattara, on the 25th September, oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 5, Julys,
1819, ceded the territory of Sattara, in perpetual so-1848
the Hon. ex-Chairman stated, in his minute, "that, ad- ,______,' the son of a I
vereignty to him, his heirs and successors, the East
mitting the Raja was guilty of an infraction of the £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ .i £ x .t right he forn
India Company cannot alienate the territory of Sat-5,310,835 4,514,721 4,447,673 4,519,119 18,792,348 4,936,544 4,111,862 4,392,650 4,447,832 17,888,988 Customs ..... ...... •• • • 903,360 .• .. 71,287
treaty, it did not follow that it was such as to cause CustomsEece
tare from the rightful heir (of the deceased Reja
his blood to be attainted. If the Reja should have Stamps . .............. 1,774,364 1,740,687 1,517,282 1,869,464 7,201,757 1,707,945 1,564,855 1,618,6G8 1,557,640 6,449,108 Stamps, ••••• • • • • •• • •
-. . 752,689 .... 311,824 peared to hi
Pertaub Skean) without a flagrant breach of that
no legitimate issue it was competent to him to adopt Taxes ................ 200,940 1,009,899 130,892 2,075,001 4,325,732 213,585 1,914,783 143,902 2,034,133 4,306,703 Taxes ........ ..... 19,029 -.. 40,868
i Property Tax •• .. 1,972,128 450,219 2,033,072 1,036,517 5,491,936 1,918,1;45 462,567 2,041,040 monstrous pr
treaty and of public faith. 988,401 5,411,253 : Property Tax ••• • • • •• • • 80,653 - - 48,116 and , his heir might be perfectly innocent, and be Post-office ......... • ... 217,000 203,000 219,000 215,000 854,000 222,000 208,000 221,000 136,000 787,000 , Post-office 67,000 - -
1 274,485
tvvphrheoop
Irhilaeodtno.rs isgiN• nj ee
79,000 cumstances st
The Court met at 12 o'clock, and the routine bu- justly entitled to the inheritance under the treaty." •• ••
Crown Lands. 45,000 30 000 37,000 .. 112,000 40,000 21000 10,000 71,000 ! Crown Lands •• • • 41,000 10,000 -•• He (the De'
ainess haying been disposed of,Miscellaneous •••• • • • • 177,910 29:657 92,593 7,461 307,621 73,126 11,746 56,307 89,022 230,201 i Miscellaneous •••• •• • •• •• • 77,420 81,561 but, it might also be said, that the Raja was a crew ...• fully justified
THE RAJA OF SATTARA. i
Total Ordinary Revenue 13,889,103 12,486,338 10,430,377 13,013,614 49,819,432 42,612,191 11,550,696 10,497,764 12,73.6,831 47,407,486 ' Total -••• • • • •• • • 2,411,946 274,312 551,095
turf of the bounty of the En- glish Government, which,Friend the Ch
Mr. Suhm VAN rose to bring forward his motion, and as it had raised him from a prison to a China _Money •• - . .... 227,644 .. .. .. 227,644 .. 455,021 • • 455,021 , China Money ... • •.. 227,377 .... •• .. ....
throne, way
in moving the resolution of which he had givennotice,
Repayments olAdvances 199,882 302,449 164,568 137,944 801,843 187,186 74,048 74,138 86,813 422,485 Repaymts of Adyncs. .. • • 382,358 .... 51,131 fallen from th(
he stated that he trusted the friends of the Rajascause pleased ; that he held his dominions during his own Total ........ 227,377 2,82125,70,38767 217)4,(1,4u6,5t 602,225 Opposed the in
rod behaviour, or during the good pleasure of the Total Income - 14,350,444 12820,671 10,618,804 13,240,190 51,050,109 fl - -,813,214 111,665,358 11,051,379 12,912,449 48,472,400 1
would be able to adduce sufliciett t reasons
.to. r again
prudence and
,rovernment. That was an error, as had already amount applied to con- 1 - -
1 obtruding the Sattara question upon the notice of tt-e
Deduct
been shown by a citation from Mr. Princep's History solidated Funds.. ... . 7,617,435 8,615,898 3,207,608 9,912,813 29,353,754 i 8,236,066 7 010 559 5 956 232 6,818,019 28,020,876 jj Increase Increase
Court. When upon a recent occasion he. inquired
Ditto, as Advances .•. • • 472,500 837,500 2,940,000 1,724,311 5,974,311 398,084 '340:830 '149:059 231,111 1,119,084 II
of Lord Hastings' Administration, in which the Raja
whether instructions had been sent to India rellitive
Ditto, as Ways & Means
of the Year - - ...... 6,260,509 3,367,273 5,461,196 7,113,698 22,202,676 5,126,232 4,889,744 4,946,008 Decrease Decrease treated. Neit
5,863,319 20,825,383 I.
on 2,587,709 011 the 327,741
to the disposal of the Sattara territory, the answer was avowedly, alluded to as an inde independent soverei i
in the treat which regulated the politicalp affairs got'the Year. Quarter.
was that no such instruction had been sent, but that
Total.,. • • 14,350,444 12,820,671 11,608,804 18,750,822 1 57,530,741 13,760,382 ,12,241,133 11,051,379 12,912,449 49,965,343 il ( Friend Mr. L(
the (limit were expecting information on the subject ..,..... e -,- Y ~

made to invalidate the adoption of the Raja, by
reference to the case of the Guignor and other
sovereign princes of India with their jsgliE eiders,
had no bearing whatever upon the ques-
tion. It had been attempted to be ad
that because the Raja agreed to the curtailment of his
sovereign power as a prince, under certain circum-
stances, that, therefore, he forfeited his right to be
treated as a sovereign prince. With great truth had
the Hon. ex-Chairman stated, in his minute, "that, ad-
mitting the Raja was guilty of an infraction of the
treaty, it did not follow that it was such as to cause
his blood to be attainted. If the Raja should have
no legitimate issue it was competent to him to adopt,
and his heir might be perfectly innocent, and be
justly entitled to the inheritance under the treaty."
But, it might also be said, that the Raja was a crea-
ture of the bounty of the English Government, which,
as it had raised him from a prison to a
throne, was at liberty to put him down whenever it
pleased ; that he held his dominions during his own
good behaviour, or during the good pleasure of the
Government. That was an error, as had already
been shown by a citation from Mr. Princep's History
of Lord Hastings' Administration, in which the Raja
was avowedly alluded to as an independent sovereign
in the treaty which regulated the political affairs of
that day. In confirmation of that citation, he (Mr. Sul-
livan) would read two extracts, one from a letter of
Sir Thomas Munro, and the other from a letter of
Mr. Elphinstone, which would put that matter be-
yond all question. On the 9th of March, 1818, Sir
Thomas Munro thus wrote to Mr. Elphinstone :
" I am anxious to hear that the ceremony of placing
the Raja of Sattara on the musnud has been per-
formed, because it would probably hasten the termi-
nation of the hostilities and the settlement of the
country. The limits of his principality might be
defined for the present. He should be required to
summon Bajee ltao, and his principal chiefs, to his
presence, and, in case of their not obeying, to pro-
claim Bajee Rao, and; all who adhere to him, rebels ;
though the natives would understand perfectly well
the relation between the Raja and the British Govern-
ment, and the natives which dictated this proclama-
tion, this would not prevent it from having
the desired effect. The chiefs who have left
Bajee Rao, as well as some of those who
still follow him, have, in their commu-
nications with us, always brought forward the dis-
grace they would sustain from the charge of rebellion
and ingratitude, were they to abandon them, and
have often called upon us to point out how their cha-
racter might be saved from such a reproach. The
orders of the Raja of Sattara will, I have no doubt,
be received both by the chiefs who have already de-
serted Bajee Rao, and by those who wish to leave
him, as a full justification of their conduct; and those
orders will also, I think, have a considerable effect
in intimidating even those few chiefs who are really
attached to Bajee Rao, and in inducing them to for-
sake his standard, and it might likewise be advisable
to send them to the Killedors of all forts, command-
ing them to surrender." Mr. Elphinstone, in ad-
dressing Lord Hastings upon the 18th of June, 1818,
wrote as follows :—" Your Excellency's instructions
left me the choice of giving him (the Raja) a jagheer
or a small sovereignty, and I was inclined to adopt
the latter plan for various reasons at the time when I
had to decide. The Mahrattas showed no disposi-
tion whatever to quit the Peishwa's standard, and it
appeared not improbable that the dread of the com-
plete extinction of their national independence, and
still more that the entire loss of their means of sub-
sistence, from the want of a Government likely
to employ them, would induce them to adhere
to Bajee Rao with an obstinacy that could never have
been produced by affection for his person or interest
in his cause. It therefore seemed expedient to re-
move those grounds of alarm by the establishment of
a separate Government. Your Excellency will have
observed, from General Munro's letter, the opinion of
that experienced officer, that a state like that of My-
sore should be formed for the Raja; and although I
did not think myself at liberty to act on this plan to
its full extent, 1 was deeply impressed with the same
arguments that had occurred to General Munro, on
the importance of leaving for part of the
Peishwa's subjects a Government which could
afford them service in their own way." Was
it not then evident that both those eminent per-
sons saw in the Raja a most important political card,
upon the skilful playing of which depended the suc-
cess of the political arrangements which were then
forming? The restoration of the Raja was in fact
the pivot upon which all those arrangements
turned. It was, confessedly, through the medium of
the Raja's restoration that they hoped to arrest the
war then raging, to conciliate the Mahratta people,
and reconcile them to the change then about to take
place in their condition. With as much justice might
the Allied Powers of 1815 have called Louis the
Eighteenth the creature of their power, and have
' claimed the right, as they put him up, also to
put him down, as the British Government
might with justice put the Raja down. They might
hare done it upon the same principle, and even with
more reason, for the restoration of the French mo-
narch was as distasteful to the French people as the
restoration of the Raja of Sattara was grateful to the
whole Mahratta people. In fact that was the very
reason which induced the Government to place him
on the throne. These, then, were in brief the reasons
which had induced him (Mr. Sullivan) to submit the
resolution, which had been read, affirming
the fact, that the alienation of the Sattara territory
would be a violation of the treaty of 1819.—(Mr.
Sullivan concluded a most able speech amidst con-
siderable applause.)
M.P., in seconding the resolution,
Mr. Hurts,
stated that he might have waited to have heard the
arguments which would be brought forward against
the reasonings of his Honourable Friend Mr. Sulli-
van, but the Court were placed in an awkward posi-
tion. They were there, as the East India Company,
judges in their own cause ; they were, unfortunately,
placed in a condition in which there were two parties
to a treaty, one claiming to have justice done them,
and the other taking upon themselves to decide the
question. Such was the unfortunate circumstance of
all persons entering into engagements with the India
Company, that there was no umpire, no inde-
pendentaappeal
anv independentautlmrity
autothoarritbyitratote.
could be made, he would be willing to
leave the Raja to maintain his rights under
whlofm theren were
the treaty, and the India Company to main-
tain theirs; then, indeed, there would be a sem-
blance of justice in whatever might take place. He
(Mr. Hume) was aware that the India Board ought
to be that tribunal ; but they had been parties
throughout the whole transaction, and had partici-
pated in those acts, unjust as he alleged, which had
been perpetrated against the Raja of Sattara. They
had become parties, and could not therefore be fair
judges. If there was any tribunal to which to ap-
peal, he (Mr. Hume) would be content to submit the
case to it, whether that tribunal was the Queen in
Council, or any other tribunal, if it could be referred
to them. He (Mr. Hume) could not but approve
entirely in the sentiments expressed on a former oc-
casion in that Court by Mr. Tucker, in the protest
which had been entered by him, which protest was
based upon the soundest policy and supported by
principles of the strictest justice, which ought to have
been carried out honestly and liberally. He (Mr.
Hume) was fearful that the East India Company was
led astray in the matter by a desire to support their
own servants. The fact was, their servants had conic
to a hasty conclusion, and the authorities in this
country, without due and proper information as to
the facts, had confirmed that decision, and
given their sanction and approval, to those
acts, and had subsequently been deterred from
doing justice by a fear of undoing that which they
had hastily done. That was the position in which
the case of the Raja of Sattara stood at that moment.
The East India Company were all-powerful, and he
(Mr. Hume) would, therefore, appeal to them to be
just ; having all authority within their own power,
they ought to use that authority mercifully, and not
act in an arbitrary manner, for arbitrary it must be
if they decided upon their own case. If there was
any doubt of what the animus was at the time of
the formation of the treaty, the Honourable Gentle-
man who sat near him had produced a letter, on a
former occasion, which any man who perused it
carefully must be satisfied with. It was an
extract from Colonel Munro's letter to Lord Hast-
ings, showing what the intention was then. The
company were then using the Raja, to use a common
phrase, as a trump card in the game they were then
playing. They were anxious to detach the Mahrattas
then in arms, at a time when the company could not
tell what they might be able to effect, and to attach
them to some individual under the semblance of the
old Mahratta Government. No man within that bar,
if he would honestly and carefully examine the arti-
cles of the treaty of 1819, and the correspondence
which took place at the time, could fail
to perceive the animus which governed the
whole proceedings, or could have any doubt
whatever that the thing intended was bond fide and
honestly on the part of Lord Hastings. to give to the
_
af r e
nd may say
government
thatwhicht
all shouldreaties are
continuetobe
l
fo
lasting,
ever.
My ver:
ut
b they know how very often they were interrupted
and broken, but they were only to be interrupted by
courses which were patent to the whole world, and
'
which could bear explanation, and upon good and
sufficient grounds to account for the changes. Had
anything
a of that kind taken
as w rerence to
Certainly not. Theplace Rajaith wasremoted,
ut due consier
(Mr. Hume) :and many others within
witho he
the bar had. contended,atien. u
moste( r
Hume)
unfairly,
oaunl
dd
d
not hesitate for one moment to submit to any men
within the bar,whether,he case before them at the time
if they had had all the in-
formation respecting t.
that they decided which they now
had,
one of them would have concurred in so whi n
iecit hu
tre anyus a
prooeeding &s that which had taken place ? The

A srecial general Court of this company was held
yesterday, at the East India House, for the purpose
of considering the following motion, the bringing
for ward of which had been given notice of by Mr. Sul-
liven :—" That the Honourable the East India Com-
pany having by a treaty concluded with Pertaub
Shean, the Raja of Sattara, on the 25th September,
1819, ceded the territory of Sattara, in perpetual so-
vereignty to him, his heirs and successors, the East
India Company cannot alienate the territory of Sat-
tara from the rightful heir (of the deceased Ri.ja
Pertaub Sheen) without a flagrant breach of that
treaty and of public faith.
The Court met at 12 o'clock, and the routine bu
ainess having been disposed of,
THE RAJA OF SATTARA.
Mr. SULLIVAN rose to bring forward his motion, and
in moving the resolution of which he had given notice,
he stated that he trusted the friends of the Rajas cause
would be able to adduce sufficient reasons for again
obtruding the Sattara question upon the notice of the
Court. When upon a recent occasion he inquired
whether instructions had been sent to India relative
to the disposal of the Sattara territory, the answer
Was that no such instruction had been sent, but that
the Court were expecting information on the subject
from the Supreme Government. Unwilling to act
with precipitation, or in anticipation that the
Supreme Government would deal with the ques-
tion in any other way than what was just,
they thought it advisable that the subject should
drop until the expected information should have been
laid before the proprietors. Upon inquiry, however,
they found that the Governor-General had already
pronounced a positive judgment upon the question,
having formally refused to recognise the adopted son
of the Raja. As it was manifest that that refusal
could only have proceeded from one of two causes—
either from a denial of the right of the Raja to adopt
a son, or a claim of a right on the part of the
Governor-General to inflict penalties on the son of
the Raja so adopted, for the alleged crimes of his
father—consistency and justice, therefore, seemed
to require that they should not lose a mo-
ment in affirming positively the right of
the late Raja to adopt, and of denying,
as positively the right of the Governor-General to in-
flict penalties upon the son for the alleged crimes of
the father. That was what he (Mr. Sullivan) would
endeavour to do in a few brief sentences. Before
doing so he would remind the Court that what they
had then to deal with was not the old Sattara ques-
tion—not a question relative to the guilt or innocence
of the late Raja—not a question whether they should
or should not redress injuries done to that ill-used
man—but it was altogether a new question regarding
the rights of the son, as secured to him by treaty; in
other words, it was a question whether the British Go-
vernment were to be bound by that treaty, or whether
they were to be at liberty to violate it at their pleasure.
He (Mr. Sullivan) was desirous of reminding the
Court that, by the treaty of September, 1819, which
ceded the territory of Sattara—not, as had been
boldly stated by a paper which was read at the last
Court, and which paper was known to speak the sen-
timents of the Raja's enemies—not as " a branch of
the house of Serajee' " but "to the Raja Pertaub
Shean ;" but not only to the Raja Pertaub Shean,
without reference to his heirs and successors, as had
also.. been boldly stated by the same paper, but
"to the Raja Pertaub Shean, his heirs
and successors"—not to his heirs and suc-
cessors in a limited sense, but in a sense
the most comprehensive, which had been shown
by statements from the Persian and the Mahratta
copies of the treaty. Not only did the British Go-
vernment cede the territory of Sattara to the Raja
Pertaub Shean, his heirs and successors, but they
ceded him that territory " in perpetual sovereignty."
He (Mr. Sullivan) entreated the Court to weigh
those expressions. What did they mean, or what
could they mean? When the British Government
introduced those words into the treaty they knew
that the Raja had, as a Hindoo, an inalienable right
to adopt a son, in failure of the heirs of his own
oody. Not only had he a "right" to adopt, but it
would be his positive duty to exercise that right, in
failure of the heirs of his body. Well, then, he
(Mr. Sullivan) would appeal to the Court, and
ask, introducing those words into the treaty
with a full knowledge of the Raja's rights, what
could those expressions mean but a solemn pledge
from the Government themselves never to divert the
territory of Sattara from the Raja Pertaub Shean,
his heirs and successors. The first question that pre-
sented itself was, did the late Raja die with heirs ?
Heirs male of his own body avowedly he had none.
No one had denied his right as an Hindoo to adopt,
and nothing could bar the succession of the son so
adopted to the Sattara territory, but a positive
stipulation in their original treaty, making the suc-
cession of the adopted son contingent upon the right
of the British Government. That treaty contained
no such stipulations. It, then, it was proved that
this adoption had been made in strict conformity with
the Hindoo law, and with the usages of the Raja's
caste, the adopted son would stand in the plenitude
of his fathers rights, personal and political, and
trench upon them the British Government could not
without an infraction of the most solemn obligations.
Instances had been adduced of the Guignor, and other
sovereign princes of India, having disallowed the
succession of adopted sons ; and inferences had been
attempted to be drawn from those examples to show
that no adoption could be made by the Raja of Sattara
without the previous assent of the British Government;
but all those examples were quite beside the present
question. The Guignor, and the other Princes,
whose cases had been quoted, then dealt with their
own subjects and dependents, according to the esta-
blished law of the country, just as the Raja of Sattara
dealt with his subjects and dependents, allowing the
succession of some adopted sons, denying the suc-
cession of others, and, upon all occasions, dictating
the terms upon which that adoption was to be
allowed. But the Raja of Sattara was not a " sub-
ject" of the British Government, nor a dependent
upon it in any sense of the word
would assert, uponirrreiefnuctabloetatuhthornive,(rl‘hlart.hSeu.c‘l,laiavanno)t
even a dependant ~p
True it was that he agreed to hoelßdrhitiaisdhoGovernment,
minions, not,
in subordination to the British G
"subordinate co-operation" with
the British
but in
ritish Govern-
ment, and the meaning of those terms was clearly ex-
plained in the treaty, which definedwathe was and
was not allowed to do. But in
ag
restriction upon his powers as a
sovereign rice thathe
did not abandon for a moment one iota
or 1113isccha'rac-
ter as a sovereign prince ; for, upon all occasions, and
under all circumstances, he retained his character as
a sovereign prince. He never placed himself in the same
situation towards the British Government which his
own dependents stood towards himself. The preamble
of the treaty stated that it was concluded by
virtue of
powers delegated to agents of the respective Govern-
ments, n-
ments, showing, beyond dispute, that, in point of
character, the Raja treated with the British Govern-
ment upon a footing of perfect equality, just as the
the King of Saxony or the King of Wirtembur
treated with Napoleon, upon a footing of f
g
perfect
equality; for. there was the same relative difference in
the powers of these petty German Princes and the
power of Napoleon, as there existed between the
power of the Raja and that of the British G-
overnment. • B
the .British GyosTtrhnemefinrtsteeadretdiclethoef
ttehrreitotrryeatao'f,
Sattara to the Ra
first proclamation issued
in
perpetual sovereignty. The
by Mr. Elphinstone, in
February, 1819, ary, 9, stated " the Raja of Sattara, who is
now a prisoner in Bajh'eee
dßao's hands, be released
and placed at the
reignty." Lord Hasti of an independent sove-
atone expressed as follows a in his letter to Mr. Elphin-
•—" The Governor-Gene-
ral has already signified to. you his entire assent to
the force of those considerations which induced you
to extend the original objects of the establishment of
the Raja of Sattara in an independent sovereignty."
There was, therefore, a distinct recognition, both by
Mr. Elphinstone and Lord Hastings of the Raja as an
independent sovereign.
Upon occasions,
the
Britishu de rGaol.
Go-
vernment had treatedall
circumstances, and in documents,allwitphcall.
magaiinnstthathtechGaroarcetrenr.;
..-that, therefore, was the bond
ment, and that was the obligation they were bound to
reuired not, and
fulfil ; more than that the
less than that they could
not reefauts q
ye
to concede without
a gross imputation on their g
any persons present whoood faith. Were there
note which had been f
again take up the
word
blood of the late Raja wasortraamtely •sounded, that the
d, that the alleged
crime of the father vitiated
the claims of the son ?
If so, then he (Mr. Sullivan) demanded upon what
authority that statement
that authority found in the Was
Fade' Was
article of that treaty made trteaty The fifth
Penal for the
Raja to hold correspondence with: foreign states, but
Raja himself
ricl:anrtdaline thus :—" The
it expressly limited the penalt
who had so offended. That ar3t
essors, en.
agheerwdith foreign
Raja for himself, and for his heirsi
gages to forbear from all intercoursesuc
des c i chiefs,p-
Powers, and with all sirdars,
and ministers, and all persons, of whatever
tion, who are not by the above articles rendered
ject to his Highness's authority ; with all the above
sub-
persons his Highness for himself, and for his heirsabove successors, engages to have no connexion and
correspondence with foreign Powers ; any affaiorrs
that may arise with them relating to his
Highness are to be exclusively conducted by
the British Government. If (for the purpose of
forming matrimonial connexions for his Highness's
family, or for any similar purpose) his Highness has
occasion to communicate with persons not rendered
subject
to his authority by this agreement, such
communication is to be made entirely through the
political agent. This article isa fundamental con-
dition of the present agreement, and any departure
from it on the Raja's part shall subject him to the
1055 of all the advantages be may gain by the said
agreement;' The attempts, therefore, that were

13,760,382
Exclusive

12,241,133
of Advance:

11,051,379 12,912,449
and inclusive of Loan.

No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the nth July, 1847, and the sth July, 1848.

Quarters ended July 5.

Quarters ended July S.

5,744,711
609,120
2,957
691,298
9iii,243
520,941
1,864,311

9,531,581
9,233,717

the .
ler.

;axe
)ie-

18,765,298

5,768,685
580,628
1,461

98,467
415,585
231,111

7,096,140
5,827,735

12,923,175

1,435,398

5,863,619
5,627,735

35,854

had not had a fair trial ? What fairer trial could
any man have than one which made him his own wit-
ness, jury, and judge? Ile had himself confessed ;
consequently he could have no fairer trial or convic-
tion. Under those circumstances, any rights which
might have been supposed to belong to his
heirs and successors through that treaty had
failed; and, therefore, by adopting the child they
were then asked to recognise, they would be adopting
the son of a man who had denuded himself of the
right he formerly possessed under the treaty, and
consequently of the Raja of Sattara itself. It ap-
peared to him (the Deputy-Chairman) a most
monstrous proposition, to say that under such cir-
cumstances such a boy should succeed to the throne.
He (the Deputy- Chairman) therefore felt himself
fully justified in seconding the motion of his Gallant
Friend the Chairman.
Mr. GEORGE ThomesoN, M.P., said that what had
fallen from the lips of the several gentlemen who had
opposed the motion before the Court fully proved the
prudence and necessity of convening that meeting of
proprietors. He must say, that he, and his friends
who had signed the requisition, had not been fairly
treated. Neither his Hon. Friend Mr. Sullivan, nor
the Hon. Member for Montrose, nor his Learned
Friend Mr. Lewis, had in the least degree re-opened
the question of the guilt or innocence of the late de-
posed Raja, but had confined themselves exclusively
to the question of the alienation of the territory, and
the claims of the adopted son. The remarks, how-
ever, which had fallen from certain Ifonourahle Pro-
prietors would fully authorise the discussion of the
whole subject. The Honourable and Gallant
Deputy-Chairman had taken an entirely new view of
the case, and had rested his defence of the treatment
of the deceased Raja Pert aub Sheen upon the appoint:
ment by that Prince of Syed Meer as his agent to
prefer certain claims on his behalf before the home
authorities. Was the Deputy-Chairman aware that
Sir Robert Grant had virtually admitted the right
of the Raja to depute that person ? If it had
entered into his (Mr. Thompson's) imagination to
conceive it possible that that act of the Raja's would
be cited as a breach of treaty—as a crime justifying
the punishment of deposal—he would have come
down with the proof that the Governor of Bombay
at the time had himself admitted the Raja's right to
send an agent here. What was the doctrine that
would now go forth to the world, and be promulgated
throughout India ? it was this, that any prince with
whom the East India Company had a treaty, and at
whose Court they had a resident, daring to appeal
by an agent of his own from the injustice of the local
authorities to the supreme authorities here, would be
guilty of a crime justly punishable by deposal. Mr.
Elphinstone, if in that Court, would laugh to scorn so
monstrous a dogma. The treaty was designed simply
to restrain the Raja from correspondence on political
affairs with the native States of India. Under what
circumstances was Syed Meer appointed ? After the
Raja had discovered that his papers had for twelve
months been kept back from the Court of Directors,
after the suppression of the dispatch of September,
1834, and after he had been treated with systematic
neglect for several years in reference to a matter
which he regarded as of vital importance, that of his
sovereignty over the jagheerdar. It was quite true
that the Raja had been referred to the terms of the
treaty, but he ably and successfully argued the point
with General Lodwick, and proved that it could be no
1 breach of that treaty to send an agent to lay bis
claims before the authorities under this roof.
Throughout the whole affair the Raja had acted with
the utmost frankness, and never until now had his
appointment of that agent been construed into a vio-
lation of his engagement. The Raja had again been
declared guilty of the acts imputed to him, and that
declaration had been made for the purpose of vitiating
the claims of his adopted son. It should be known,
however, that many gentlemen in the Court of Direc-
tors, and some in still higher places, now admitted,
privately, though they would not do so openly and
publicly, that they regarded the charges made against
the Raja as the offspring of the malice and ingenuity
of his enemies. But, admitting them to be true, was
it not the fact, that the Raja was not deposed on ac-
count of what it was alleged he had done, or intended
to do, but for contumacy—for refusing to agree to
the terms proposed by Sir James Carnac ?—(Hear.)
He was offered the favour and protection of the Bri-
tish Government if he would admit his guilt; and
for refusing to make that admission, he was deprived
of his sovereignty. It was now the opinion of every
person with whom he (Mr. Thompson) had conversed
that the act of Sir James Carnac was unnecessary
and severe—that no political reason existed at the
time for the removal of the Raja—that his intentions,
whatever they might have been, could not by any
possibility result in danger to our power in India—
and that, at all events, he had no opportunity given
him of rebutting the secret accusations made against
him. Under these circumstances, it was not too much
to ask that the territory guaranteed by solemn treaty
to the Raja and his family for ever, should be be-
stowed upon the individual whom the Raja had
adopted. Proprietors might be told that the Raja's
brother, Appa Sahib, had adopted a son, and that the
child so adopted had a claim to the throne. The
papers recently laid before Parliament would show
that Appa Sahib had acted in direct opposition to the
advice of the resident, Mr. Frere, in this matter.
That gentleman had distinctly told the Raja on the
Ist of April, that he could not sanction any adoption,
and the Bombay Government had approved his con-
duct. The adoption took place while the resident
was absent, and Dr. Murray, who was in attendance
on his Highness, was a most reluctant witness of a
ceremony which he had no power to prevent. On
the return of Mr. Frere, that gentleman distinctly
informed the widows of Appa Sahib, and all the chiefs
assembled, that it was impossible for him to recognise
the adoption that had taken place, or to pledge himself
to the decision of the Government. It was the
fact, also, that the boy adopted was sent for
at the moment—that there was no discrimi-
nation exercised in the selection—and that the
father of the child was not present to relinquish his
claim upon his son. He (Mr. Thompson) hoped,
therefore, that this adoption would not be regarded
as opposing any difficulty in the way of recognising
the adoption made by the deposed Raja in 1845.
Every circumstance connected with the case pointed
to the boy at Benares as the person entitled to suc-
ceed to the vacant gadee. He was nearest of blood
—he was the child of a man of whom every
European functionary, who had ever been at Sattara,
spoke in terms of commendation, upon whom the
breath of suspicion had never lighted—whose con-
stancy to his cousin, the deposed Raja, had
brought about his own early death. If any
child in India was, above all others, a fit
successor to the throne of Sivajee, it was the child
of the late Balla Sahib, Senaputtee. That child and
his relations had been cherished by the late Raja.
That child had been formally adopted in 1845, and
the adoption duly notified to all parties concerned.
'['he elevation of that child to the gadee would be the
strictest observance of the treaty that could, under
the circumstances, take place, and would, there could
be no doubt, give satisfaction to all but a few, whose
selfish designs might be frustrated by sueh a selection.
He (Mr. Thompson) would not resort to any un-
worthy means to induce the Court of Directors to
take the step he desired them to take, but he thought
he might be permitted to remind them of the position
of the question in this country. There were many,
himself among the number, who fully believed the late
Raja innocent,' and who were, therefore, anxious
to see justice done to his memory, and some
compensation made to his surviving relatives. The
elevation of his adopted son would be most grateful
to the feelings of all such. The Court of Directors
might be assured that there was no disposition to
turn what they might do into the triumph of a party.
—(Hear.) The ends they sought were of a higher
and purer nature. They wished to see those who
had been long in exile restored to their native state.
They desired to put an end to feuds and divisions
which evil-minded and mischievous persons were al-
ready fomenting. They desired to end the discus-
sions, often angry and painful, which had for eight
years prevailed in that Court. They desired to see
that done which would give joy to every inhabitant
of the state of Sattara, save the very small
d
number who might still' foster bad and
wicked
feelings, and would also communicate
pleasure in this
and satisfaction to a large number of
country. Had the Hon. and Gallantt persons Chairman
final
at liberty to hold out the prospect of
h
settle-
ment of the question, in accordance whiathvethbeewenishaens
which had been expressed, it would
indescribable relief to his
(Mr. Thompson's) mind. duty to the memory of
In the discharge of a so
the late Raja, he had givlGeemniaindloly2ticeifofita
wmeorteionpoisnsitbhlee
House of Commons.
with honour and good faith to do so, would he aban-
don that motion, for there was no living being less
disposed than himself to turn public accuser, or to
utter a word injurious to the character or interests of
another. But if they were still to be told that the
Baja was a guilty traitor, and therefore incompetont to
nominate a successor to the rights he formerly enjoyed,
it would be his duty, at whatever sacrifice of feeling
and inclination, to bring before Parliament and the
country the history of that Prince's downfal, and to
lay bare the acts of those who had been the chief
instruments of the ruin of a man whom he honestly
believed had been excelled by no ruler in the purity
of his intentions, and by no ally in his faithful regard
to his engagements. He must say he had been
greatly disappointed to find the Court of Directors
unprepared to give any opinion on the subject of
succession. As long ago as May last, they were
aware that the gadee of Sattara was vacant, and it
naturally occurred to his mind that the Court
would immediately take into consideration the
steps advisable to be pursued. The only
thing, however, they bad resolved to do
was to wait for the views and opinions
of the Government of India. He (Mr. Thompson)
earnestly hoped and prayed that when those opinions

came to !hand they would be found to accord with
what he and others conceived to be at once the justice'.
and expediency of the case, and that there would bes
no future necessity of taxing the patience and out-•
raging the sensibilities of members of that Court.
He (Mr. Thompson) would think that he was doing
but sorry service to the parties in India, in whose fate
he felt so lively an interest, if he provoked any hostile
feeling in the minds of any of the Hon. Directors,
and especially in the minds of those who had it in
their power by the counsel they gave and by the opi-
nions they recorded to satisfy what he (Mr. Thomp-
son) contended was a very reasonable wish on their
part. Before he sat down, he did hope that the Hon.
Deputy-Chairman would in some way or other qualify
the assertion he had made, that the mission of
Syed Meer to this country was a breach of treaty,
and a sufficient justification for the conduct which
was subsequently adopted towards the Raja. That
was the only charge which the gallant gentleman had
proved against the Raja, and he (Mr. Thompson)
should be sorry if it Ns en t forth to India and to the
world that princes and rulers of that country were
committing a high misdemeanour and breach of their
treaties with the British Government, if, under cir-
cumstances so peculiar as those under which Syed
Meer was appointed, they should take the step of
sending an agent to England for the purpose
of bringing their claims before the Court of that
Honourable Company. Let it be remembered that
the Raja had become within a very few days previous
to that occurrence cognizant of the fact that the
statements which he prepared twelve months before
had never reached this country, and were still at
Bombay ; that the provocation he received upon that
occasion was very strong, and that he told Colonel
Lodwick at the interview, when he was called to say
whether he had taken such a step or not frankly and
openly, that he had done so. That was in
the early part of the month of June, and he said
that he would not send home until after the feast of
the Dussera, which was some time afterwards. He
(Mr. Thompson) could assure the Hon. and Gallant
Deputy-Chairman that Sir Robert Grant distinctly
admitted that the Raja might be justified in sending
an agent to this country. When it was suggested
to the Governor, by a member of his Council
at Bombay, that Syed Meer should be de-
tained, and not permitted to come to this
country, Sir Robert Grant gave hl3 opinion
that he did not think it was competent to him
as Governor of that Presidency to prevent the
Raja from sending out a mission to England, if he
thought proper to do so. Why, that was a charge
which had never before been put into the indict-
ment against the Raja ! The conduct of the Raja in
that respect showed, more than anything else, that he
never could have entered into any conspiracy against
the Government. The sole idea which had for years
absorbed his mind was the question of - the
jagheers, and yet it was alleged at that
very time he was endeavouring to corrupt sepoya,
whereas, Colonel Lodwick, himself, stated that
he was then absorbed in preparing for the mis-
sion of Syed Meer to this country. The Honour-
able and Gallant Deputy-Chairman, therefore, had
no right to impute the appointment of Syed Meer
as a crime upon the Raja, which should be
visited upon his heirs. He (Mr. Thompson) felt
too unwell to go further into the discussion of the
various matters connected with the question, but,
without presuming to dictate, he hoped that
it might appear, when they heard from his
Lordship the Governor-General, and found that he
had taken this question into his consideration—
that it would appear by their subsequent course that
the Directors were not indisposed, whatever might be
their opinion of the guilt or innocence of the Raja,
to adopt such a final settlement of the ques-
tion as that which was placed before them.
It was only those who were cognizant, as he (Mr.
Thompson) had been, of the amount of suffering
which the act of Sir James Carnac inflicted, who
could fully enter into the motives and feelings which
animated those honourable gentlemen who took up
the question in that Court. Sad havoc had been made
of the interests, and even of the lives, of some of the
best people with whom the British Government had
ever become acquainted in India. They might bring
a long list of deceased persons, holding high appoint-
ments, some of whom were friends of Hon. Members
of that Court, who had perished from 1834 to the
present time. It was their own opinion that the
Raja of Sattara's days had been shortened by his re-
sidence at Benares, however much the British Go-
vernment may have been disposed, as was alleged, to
consult his feelings and constitution. It was their
opinion that his widow died in consequence of her
exile to that place. Information had been received
from Benares that divisions and dissensions were
springing up amongst those whom the Raja had left
behind, and that his nearest relations were falling
out amongst themselves, in consequence of the pre-
sent unhappy state of things, and the vile machina-
tions of evil advisers who were seeking their own
ends. The friends of the Raja's family were desirous
that that unfortunate state of things should be reme-
died by the restoration of the territory to the Raja's
heir, and the allowing his family to return to their
native state and city. He (Mr. Thompson) did not
see how there could be any final settlement of the
question, or any amicable adjustment of existing
terences, ualess the boy Shahoo were placed upon the
gadee. All political and moral considerations
pointed to that course. If they set aside the nomi-
nation of his father, the Maharaja Sahoo would still
be Raja of Sattara in the estimation of the
Mahrattas. and the British Government would
have two Richards in the field instead of only one ;
whereas such was the feeling at Setters that, without
giving offence to any individual,
.the Government
might readily set aside the adoption which it had
never recognized of Balla Sahib, and secure the eTa-
titude and liberality in a second degree of all parties
in that state, by recognizing the adoption of the son
of Pertaub Shean. He (Mr. Thompson) trusted
there would be no indisposition on the part
of the Court arising out of any past proceed-
ings, or that any such consideration would
be permitted to away them in their decision. For
himself and every gentleman about him he would
say they sought no triumph in the case ; they came
to the Court desirous of avoiding whatever might
provoke controversy, or drag them back into past
debates ; but they came before the Court as honest
individuals, who, whatever might have been their
errors in times past in the way of temper, had been
pursuing what they considered a just and upright
object in regard to his late Highness the Raja of
Sattara.—(The Hon. Gentleman concluded an able
speech amid great applause.)
Major OLIPHANT thought the answer given on the
last occasion was perfectly fair, and that it was under-
stood that nothing was to be done in the matter until
advices had been received from India. For himself
he could not vote on the present occasion for Mr.
Sullivan's motion, much as he considered the Raja
had been injured, and desirous as he was of setting
the question at rest for ever. All throughout his
speech Mr. Sullivan had refrained from saying that
the adoption of the boy Shahoo was a perfectly good
adoption; on the contrary he had appealed entirely to
the feelings of the Court.
' ve d
Mr. SULLIVAN, in the course of a long and
re received
el able
reply, observed that information had been_
ly refubsne to
td that the Governor-General hadte formally al
Rays,
recognize the adopted son of h
in-
formation had been received upon the subject to the
followinge aegffeenctt
heuponhere,
Majorlo 3
t hoit,
GMraergoch :
"Thr
said to the
Minister Eshwunt Rew, I am commanded by his
ts, and people of your
whole of the attendants, servants, Lordship the Governor-General to state things to the
he inferiorpersons
gthetom
thtoemc.omTe.benl hnaovteannye
attendants are present, .t are not
establishment. The minister replied the principal-
objection to yourlwi
present, but
persons now are to remain with her Highness
allpecaakuisne
e„ ; you are the English agent, and
the Qa
speak thus fair to face ; now all is lost
and destroyed, therefore the people have become
heartless ; this act is the pleasure of the English Go-
vernment. After this, the Minister assembled the
whole of the persons of the establishment ; her High-
ness the Queen sat behind the curtain of her apart-
ment, and outside thereof were Shahoo Maharaj, the
Minister, the English agent, Major M'Gregor, and
the persons of the establishment.
"Major M'Gregor then said to all—' Orders have
come from the Governor-General that you must be
discharged, as his Highness the Raja is now
no more ; after this you will not receive any allow-
ance. You will receive money for the expense
of the journey on your going to your respective
homes, as you are from another country ; , this is his
Lordship's wish. My Government does net acknow-
ledge or recognise the adopted son which the' Raja
took. In this manner the agent said this three times
over for all to understand this fully, adding, do you
reflect hereon and give me an explicit answer. All
remained silent, when the Minister replied, before his
Highness the Raja departed this life he made Shahoo
Maharaj, and her Highness the Queen, heir and
regent to his state and sovereignty, and then de-
parted this life—therefore we have a sovereign and
ruler who is seated before you—then how can we be
discharged ? We know not any one besides our
sovereign and ruler, we do not make any request to
you, the agent, for any such arrangement which you
propose. W hat favour the Governor-General may
be pleased to show, it will be to our sovereign and
ruler, and our sovereign will regard and protect us.
"The Major thus, said to the Minister—l perfectly
understand what you have said, I will now say to
the whole of you, My Goverameut does not ac-
knowledge or recognise the child as the adopted son."
" The Minister replied—' Your Government may
not acknowledge, but our State and Government ac-
knowledges him as sovereign and ruler, whom the late
Raja had so made, constituted, and appointed.
" Puttrajey Row Sawunt and Kbimda Row,
Dufterdar (the chief accountant or chancellor) said