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

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen gave last evening, at Buckingham Palace,
a State Ball, which was very numerously attended, the
invitations exceeding eighteen hundred, and comprising
the members of the Royal Family, the foreign Princes,
and foreigners of every distinction in this country, the
Diplomatic Corps, the Ladies of the Queen's Household,
the Officers of State, and the principal Officers of the
Household of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and most
of the nobility and gentry in town.
The company were invited at half-past nine o'clock,
but before that time the visitors began to arrive, those
having the entrée alighting at a temporary residence in
the garden, the other guests alighting at the equerries'
entrance in Pimlico. The distinguished assemblage were
ushered, on their arrival, up the Grand Staircase, which
was lined by the Yeomen of the Guard, under the com-
mand of Captain Kincaid, the Exon in Waiting. The
officers of the corps present were Sir George Lee, the
Lieutenant ; Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzmaurice, the Ad-
jutant ; and Captain Sadler, Exon.

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The Royal Family alighted at the Queen's private
entrance, and were received by the Maids of Honour
and the Grooms and Equerries in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
half-past nine o'clock, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness de Speth, Sir George Couper, and Lord James
P. Murray.
His Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse was at-
tended by hie Excellency General Prince Castelcicala,
and his Gentleman in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess Bernhard of Saxe
Weimar was accompanied by Prince Edward, and the
Princesses Anne and Amelie of Saxe Weimar, and was
attended by the Honourable Miss Mitchell and Captain
Somerset.

His Royal Highness Prince George was also present.
The Royal guests were conducted to the Queen's
Closet, where her Majesty and Prince Albert received
their illustrious visitors. The whole suite of state sa-
loons, comprising the Ball-room, the Throne-room, the
Picture Gallery, the Grand Saloon, the White Draw-
ing-room, and the Green Drawing-room were all opened,
and were most tastefully decorated with the rarest and
most beautiful flowers, and most brilliantly illuminated
with numerous magnificent crystal lustres, filled with
wax, lights. The Throne-room, as well as the Ball-
room were prepared for dancing, orchestras for qua-
drille bands being erected in each.

At ten o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, ac-
companied by the Duchess of Kent, Prince George, the
Duchess Bernhard, Prince Edward, and the Prince sses
Anne and Amelia of Saxe Weimar, and the Count of
Syracuse, entered the state rooms, and were conducted
by the Lord Chamberlain to the ball-room, the quadrille
band playing " God save the Queen," on her Maj,sty's
entrance.

The Queen wore a white crape dress, trimmed with
white bugles and grapes in.crape and frosted leaves, the
whole of British manufacture. Her Majesty's head-
dress to correspond.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a
black crape dress over satin, trimmed with bugles. The
headdress of black lace, ornamented with bugles: and
white feathers ; all the articles of British manufac.mre.
Directly after the Queen's entrance in the Ball-room,
a set of Quadrilles was formed, and the ball comm....need,
the Quadrille Band, led by Mr. Henry Barnard, playing
" La Favorite " (Tolbecque).
The following dances were afterwards executed :-
QUADRILLES.

Haydee ~,
Ag❑ese ~.
La Mein© Jeanne ...
Attila • •
Le Diable a Quatre...
Mazagran

▪ Musard.
▪ Tinnev.
Bosisivs.

••• Coote.
▪ Tolbecqae.
• Bosisis.

Emmeline
Alberta

WALTZES.

L'Anitua
Alpenlieder
Die behwalben
Broneslaus
Oberon ...

... D'Albert.
... Tinney.
... Lanner.

POLKAS.

... Marchan.
... Strauss,.
... L2bitzky.
... Tiancy.

Herminie . . Handley.
Zingara
„. Coote.
Emily •••
••• •.• Brawne.
Ariel ••
•••
••• Tinney.
Carnaval Galop ... Macfarlane.
Soon after ten o'clock dancing commenced in the
Throne-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)

WALTZES.

Alberta (first time)
Philadelphia
Emmeline ..
Concordia
La Sirene •
Oberon

... Coote.

••• Bosisis.
Coote.
▪ Tinney.
▪ Coote.
... Musard..
▪ Coote.

... Tinney.
... Labitzky.
... D'Albert.
... Strauss.
... Coots.

... Tinney.

POLKAS.
Adelaide (first time) ... Tinnoy.
Zingara Coote.
Coquette ... D'Albert.
Clara ••• ••• Coote.
Les soupirs des fleurs Strauss.
La Favorite... Ceote.
The following had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—llis Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess Die-
trichstein, and the Gentlemen Attaches to the Embassy;
the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, and
the Gentlemen Attaches to the Legation; the Ilavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Argentine Minister
and Gentleman Attache to the Legation ; the Portu-
guese ;Minister and Viscountess de Moncorvo, and the
Gentlemen Attaches ; the Russian Minister and Ba-
roness Brunow, Mademoiselle Olga do 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 Attache; the
Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki and the Gen •
tleman' Attache, the American Minister and Mrs. Ban-
croft and the Gentleman Attache, the Netherlands
Minister and Mademoiselle Schimtnelpenninck, and the
Gentlemen Attaches, the 'New Grenada Minister anti
the Gentleman Attache, the Mexican Minister and the
Gentlemen Attach lie the Swedish Minister and:Baroness
de Rehausen and the Gentleman Attache; the S ardinian
Minister and the Gentlemen Attaches, the Saxon Mi-
nister and Baroness de Beust, Prince Lubora4raki, le
Due et la Duchesse de Coigny, Mademoiselle de Coigny,
Baron and Baroness Bertouch, le Due et Is Duchesse de
Melfort, Major Williams, Syndicus Bankes, Baron
D'Ugglas, Count Desgeneys,' Mr. and Mrs. Jay, of New
York, Baron and Baroness de Linden, Baron de Plessin,
M. de Lomonosseff, le Marquis de Salvo, le Marquis et
la Marquise de Lousada, Mdlle. Brauealeone, the Lord
Chancellor, the Gold Stick in waiting, the Right lion.
the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Mayor
and the Lady Mayoress, the Silver Stick in wai ting,
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 Scots
Fusilier Guards, Colonel Berkeley Drummond; officer
commanding the Coldstream Guards; officer command-
ing Ist battalion Grenadier Guards, Colonel J. R. Cri ,u-
-furd; officer commanding 2d battalion, Colonel P. S.
Stanhope; officer commanding 3d battalion, Colonel 1 V.
Fludyer; officers of the Ist battalion Grenadier Guar. Is,
Colonel J. Dixon, Captain C. Lennox, B. Maitland,
Lieutenant W. E. H. Vere ; officers of the 2d Battali on
Grenadier Guards, Captain Hon. C. H. Lindsay; Lie ut.
H. L. Wilson; officers of the 3d Battalion, Lieutentant-
Colonel Reynardson, Major J. A. Udney, Lieutenant S.
Burr; officers commanding lit Battalion Coldstream
Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Windham; of facer
commanding 2d Battalion, Colonel C. M. Hay; officers
of the Ist Battalion, Captain C. H. White, Lieutenant
R. D. Sulivan; officers of the 2d Battalion, Captain giir
J. Harington Lieutenant H. Jolliffe ; officer col a-
mending Ist Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, Color el
w. J. KriollYs; officer commanding 2d Battalion, Co-
lonel A. Colvile; officers of the Ist Battalion, Lieutenant
Colonel Bathurst, Captain H. P. Hepburn, Lieutenant
F. Fortescue; officers of the 2d Battalion, Colonel ,G.
Dixon, Captain W. J. Ridley, Lieutenant W. Aitchiso n;
officer commanding Ist Life Guards, Colonel John Ha: ll;
four officers, Sir William Fraser, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Levi 4,
Mr. Tardrew; officer commanding 2d Life Guarx :s,
Colonel M'Douall; four officers, Captain Vyse, Capta in
Freke, Captain Tollemache, Lieutenant Lumley; offioer
commanding Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant-Colour
G. Smith; four officers, Captain Baillie, Captain R. I I.
Vyse, Captain A. 13. Hood, Captain Lord A. Lenno: t;
officer commanding 12th Lancers, Lieutenant-Colon el
E. Pole; three officers, Captain Maunsell, Lieutenant
Sutton, Lieutenant Prior: officer commanding the Roy al
Engineers, Major-General Sir John F. Bygoyne; foi it
officers, Lieutenant-Colouel Hall, Lieutenant-Colon el
Jebb, C. 8.; Major Vicars, Major Walpole; officer cosi e-
mending the Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-General it
Thomas Downman ; four officers, Major Cuppage, B.Til • ;
Lieutent Colonel Bell, R.H.A.; Lieutenant-Colony al
Wright, Major James, &c.
Supper was served in the State Dinner-room, on a
long range of tables, which were decorated with a
number of elegant epergnes, vases, and candelabra .of
silver gilt; white on the buffet were tastefully arran,
jewelled and crystal cups, tankards sculptured in
shields and salvers of the largest size, and gold vases , in
which were inserted different plants of great beauty t Ind
variety, the whole being illuminated with candela Lira
and sconces filled with wax-lights.
His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, attended 6 y
Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, visited the Royal Botani, e al
Gardens, in the Regent's. park, yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visits I
the Queen 3 esterday.

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The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Nations 1
Debt held a meeting yesterday in the Treasury. Then
were present the Chancellor of the Exchequer, thi 3
Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputp -
Governor. Mr. Hightun, Secretary and Couiptrollez -
General, attended.

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the EAST INDIA HOUSE. made to invalidate the adoption of the Raja, by
reference to the case of the Guignor and other THE REVENUE FOR THE YEAR AND QUARTER ENDING JULY 5 1848.i any man have
1 the A srecial general Court of this company was held
sovereign princes of India with their jagheerdari, P ness, jury, ac
yesterday, at the East India House, for the purpose had no bearing whatever upon the due;- ..._____..........-
No. 1.-An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended Lth of July, 1847, and sth of July, IS4B, showing the consequently
of considering the following motion, the bringing :
1 thetion. It had been attempted to be saidtion. Under
forward of which had been given notice of by Mr. Sul- Increas or Decrease on each head thereof.
that because the Rdja agveed to the curtailment of hismight have
liven :-" That the Honourable the East India Com-
sovereign power as a prince, under certain circum-
pany having by a treaty concluded with Pertaub 1
, stances, that, therefore, he forfeited his right to be r QUARTERS ENDED
A YEAR 1
il ended ' , @traumas ENDL•'D YEAR II
ended Year ended July 5. Quarter ended July 5. heirs and su
, failed • and, t
Shean, the Raja of Sattara, on the 25th September, , Oct. to, I Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, July 5, , Oct. 10, Jan. 5, April 6, July 5, July 5, , ,------,:---, r______,_
lace, treated as a sovereign prince. With great truth bad
1846 1847 1847 1847 1847 1847 1848 1848 1848 1848 , Increase• Decrease. Increase. I Decrease. were then ask
the 1819, ceded the territory of Sattara, in perpetual so •
the Hon. ex-Chairman stated, in his minute, "that, ad•
icing vereignty to him, his heirs and successors the East
miffing the Raja was guilty of an ibfractim of tlx. £ £ £ £ x £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ right he fern-
India Company cannot alienate the territory of Sat- customs . .
[lees,treaty, it did nut follow that it was Such as to cause Lxcise•---...... , • ~
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, ' ' • • • • •• • . 903,360 .... 71,287
••• • •• 4,181,926 3,608,155 1,652,565 3,291,052 12,i 33,1)8 3,539,946 3,246,883 9,002,601 3,4 i 3,803 12,263,933 Excise •••••• • . • . .. •. .. 470,765 182,751 consequently 1
the tarn from the rightful heir (of the deceased Rc.ia
his blood to be attaintcd. If the Raja should hays Stamps. .............. 1,774,364 1,740,687 1,817,282 1,869,464 7,201,707 1,707,945 1,564,855 1,618,668 1,557,640 6,449,108 ' Stamps .••• • • • ... ••••
• 752,689 .... 311,824 geared to hi
aold, no legitimate issue it ~~•aS competent to him to ado p, Taxes -•••••• • • " • • • • 200,940 1,909,899 130,892 2,075,001 4,35,732 213,58‘,5 1,914,783 143,902 2,034,133 4,306,703 ; Taxes ... •• • ..... .. .. • • 19,029 ... 40,868 Pertaub Shears) without a flagrant breach of that
1 roperty Tax .......... 1,972,128 450,219 2,033,072 1,036,517 5,491,936 1,918,645 462,567 2,041,640 988,401 5,411,233 Property Tax - .... monstrous pe
the treaty and of public faith. and ; his heir might be perfectly innocent, and b:.... 80,653 .... 48,116
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 .... 79,000 CUmstances 1,11
caost The Court met at 12 o'clock, and the routine bu-
justly entitled to the inheritance under the treat ~ Crown Lands •- .. •• .-.• ~ . 45,000 30,000 37,000
Miscellaneous ........ 177,910 29,657 92,593 112,000 40,000 21,000 10,000 • 71,000 ' Crown Lands .... 41,000 10,000 He (the Del
siness having been disposed of, But, it might also be said, that the Raja was a creya.- 7,461 307,621 73,126 11,746 56,307 89,022 230,201 -.Miscellaneous.•- • • 77,420 81,561 •• • •
•• •• fully justified
lock,
THE RAJA OF SATTARA. ture of the bounty of the English Government, which,
Total Ordinary Revenue 13,889,103 12,486,3'28 10,430,377 13,013,614 49,819,432 12,612,191; 11,560,696 10,497,764 12,736,831 47,407,486
hose Total •••••• • • .... 1 2,411,946 274,312 551,095 Friend the Ch
227,644 455,021 :•• 455,021 1 China Money •••_ • • 227,377 ....
ce in Mr. SULLIVAN rose to bring forward his motion, and as it had raised him from a prison to a Chins Money.... ..... 227,644
imprest Moneys, &c. • • 33,815 31,884 53,859 88,632 208,190 •• • •
43,537 ; 30,614 24,452 88,805 187,408 ! ImprestMoneys,&c. .. .. 20,782 173 •• „
• Mr. GEORG,
Ties' in moving the resolution of which he had given notice, throne, was at liberty to put him down whenever it
pleased • that he held his dominions during his own Repayments otAdvances 199,882 302,449 164,568 137,944 804,843 ....
187,486 74,048 74,138 86,813 422,485 ' RepaymtsofAdvncs. .. - 382,358 .. • • 51,131 fallen from thi
wcre he stated that he trusted the friends of the Rja's caus
Total Income .. 14,350,444 12,820,671 10,648,804 13,240,180 (51,060,109 12,843,214 11,665,358 11,051,379 12,912,449 48,472,400 !
hick would be able to adduce sufficient reasons tor again
good behaviour, or during the good pleasure of the
y Amount applied to Con- Total ...... .. 227,377 2,815,086 274,485 602,226
Deduct / „, „, Deduct 1,,74,488
ttppwhrrreheoufdt
Government. That was an error, as had alread - ,
loin-:
Increase j '''-' '-' ' Increase "
The obtruding the Sattara question upon the notice of
been shown by a citation from Mr. Prince '5 History solidated nine.- - 7 617 435 8 615 898 3,207,608 9,912,813 29,353,754 ; 8,236,066 7 010 559 5 956 932 6,818,019 28,020 876 I
Court. When upon a recent occasion he inquired
of Lord Hastings' Administration, in which the Raja Ditto, as Advances .•... '472:500 '837,500 2940,000 1,724,311 5,974,311 388,084 '340,830 '149,659 231,111 1,11.9,t;84 .
the
Ad- whether instructions had been sent to India relative
was avowedly alluded to as an independent sovereign 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 5,863,319 20,825,383 Decrease Decrease
on 2,587,70 on the 327,741
to the disposal of the Sattara territory, the answer
in the treaty which regulated the political affairs of- - the Year. Quarter.
ivate was that no such instruction had been sent, but that
______.:-.5. lisc,srmittinn on the sniiipet ~ . 5 -.-Total... • • 14,350,444 12,820,671 11,608,604 18,750,822 57,530,741 ;13,760,382 j 12,241,133 111,051,379 ;12,912,449 49,965,343 Friend Mr. Li
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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
forward of which had been given notice of by Mr. Sul-
livan :—" That the Honourable the East India Com-
pany having by a treaty concluded with Pertaub
Shean, the neja of Sattara, on the 25th September,
1819, ceded the territory of Sattara, in perpetual so •
vereignty to him, his heirs and successors,.the L,ast
India Company cannot alienate the territory of Sat-
tara from the rightful heir (of the deceased Reja
Pertaub Shean) without a flagrant breach of that
treaty and of public faith.
The Court met at 12 o'clock, and the routine bu-
siness 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 Raja s cause
would be able to adduce sufficient reasons tor again
obtruding the Sattara question upon the notice of the
Court. When upon a recent occasion he inquir•
ed
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 subj▪
ect
from the Supreme Government. Unwilling to act
with precipitation,
or in anticipation that the
Supreme Government would deal wi▪ th the ques-
tion in any other way than what was just,
they thought it advisable that the subject should
dro-p' 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
man—but it was altogether a new questi▪
on 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 Sheen,
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 Lim 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-
sentedi
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. If; 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 father's 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 es 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, ' lf the British Government, nor a dependent
upon it in any sense of the word. He (Mr. Sullivan)
would assert, upon irrefutable authority, that he was not
even a dependant "prince" of the British Government,
True it was that he agreed to hold his dominions,
not
in subordination to the British Government, bUtin
"subordinate co-operation" with the British
Govern-
ment, and the meaning of those terms
w
ex-
plained in the treaty, which defined whatas he clearly
was
and
dwas not allowed to do. But in agreeing to that
restriction upon his powers as a sovereign prince, he
did not abandon fur a moment one iota or his charac-
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, 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 Wirtemburg
treated with Napoleon, upon a footing of perfect
equality ; fur 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 Go-
vernment. By the first article of the treaty,
the British Government ceded the territory of
Sattara to the Raja in perpetual sovereignty. The
first proclamation issued by Mr. Elphinstone, in
February, 1819, stated " the Raja of Sattara, who is
now a prisoner in Bajee Rao's hands, will be released
and placed at the head of an independent sove
reignty." Lord llastings, iu his letter to Mr. Elphin-
stone expressed as follows :—" 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 establishnfent 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 all occasions, under all
circumstances, and in all documents, the British Go-
vernment had treated with him in that character ;
that, therefore, was the bond against the Govern-
ment, and that was the obligation they were bound to
fulfil ; more than that the treaty required not, and
less than that they could not refuse to concede without
a gross imputation on their good faith. Were there
any persons present who would again take up the
note which had been formerly sounded, that the
blood of the late Raja was tainted, 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 was made. Was
that authority found in the treaty ? The fifth
article of that treaty made it penal for the
Raja to hold correspendence with foreign states, but
it expressly limited the penalty to the Raja himself
who had so offended. That article ran thus :—" The
Raja for himself, and for his heirs and successors, en-
gages to forbear from all intercourse with foreign
Powers, and with all sirdars, jagheerdars, chiefs,
and ministers, and all persons, of whatever descrip-
tion, who are not by the above articles rendered sub-
ject to his Highness's authority ; with all the above
persons his Highness for himself, and for his heirs and
successors, engages to have no connexion or
correspondence with foreign Powers ; any affairs
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 is a fundamental con-
dition of the present agreement, and any departure
from it on the Raja's part shall subject him to the
loss of all the advantages he may gain by the said
agreement." The attempts, therefore, that were

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cala,

made to invalidate the adoption of the Raja, by
reference to the case of the Guignor and other
sovereign princes of India with their jaglieerdana
had no bearing whatever upon the queF-
hon. It hail been at tempted to be said
that because the Raja agveed 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 bad
the Hon. ex-Chairman stated, in his minute, "that, ad.
miffing the Raja was guilty of an ibfractian of tit(
treaty, it did not follow that it was such as to cause
his blood to be attainted. If the Raja should havt
no legitimate issue it was competent to him to adop',
and ; his heir might be perfectly innocent, and he
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
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. Iu 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 Rao, 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, I 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 may." 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.)
Mr. Hums, M.P., in seconding the resolution,
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-
pendent authority to arbitrate.
whm an
Ifo there
appealwere
any independent authority to
could beßaja to maintain
made, hewold
his r
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rights
under
e
willing to
leavethe r
the treaty, and the India Company to main-
tain theirs ; then, indeed, there would be a sem-
(bmlanrc.
Fume)eofj wasustice aware
aNrvehattheavetrtmheiglhotdtiaakilopalracde.ouglt
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 come
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 be
(ilr. 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
Raja a government which should continue for ever.
My friend may say that all treaties are to be lasting,
but 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 of that kind taken pace with reference to
Sattara ? Certainly not. The Raja was removed,
as he (Mr. Hume)
,and many others within
the bar had contended, most unfairly, and
without due consideration. He (Mr. Hume) would
not hesitate for one moment to submit to any men
within the bar, whether, if they had had all the in-
formation respecting the case before them at the time
that they decided which they now had, whether any
one of them would have concurred in so iniquitous a
prooeeding so that which had taken place? The

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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 ;
consequeut ly he could have no fairer trial or cons ie•
thin. 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 he 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.
Ile (the Deputy-Chairman) therefore felt himself
fully justified in seconding the motion of his Gallant
Friend the Chairman.
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, 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 certaia Honourable 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 Pertaub Sheen upon the appoint;
ment by that Prince of Syed Meer as his agent tc
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
breach of that treaty to send an agent to lay his
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 Rsja 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, Senaputteo. 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.
The 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.
Ile (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 assurad 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 Setters, save the very small
who might still foster bad and
feelings, and would also communicate 'ieke
pleasuretis
and satisfaction to a large number of persons in
nfelt
country. Had the Hon. and Gallant Chairman
at liberty to hold out the prospect of the final this
country.
of the question, in accordance with the wishes
which had been expressed, it would have
s) mind.have been an
'
indescribable relief' to his (Mr. Thompson
In the discharge of a solemn duty to the memory
the
House the late Raja, he had given notice of a motion in
House of Commons. Gladly, if it were possible
with honour and good faith to dosolt,. syying ouldbeing lessha aban-
don that motion, for there was no
ontee
disposed than himself to turn public accuser, or to
utter a word injurious totllescliilalrta: be torldists
k
thatr the of
e
another. But if they were still
Raja 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 aad the
co entry the history of that Prince's dovvnfel, and to
lay bare the acts of those who had been the chief
ins truments of the ruin of a mall 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
sugeesaton. As long ago as 11,r,. Last, they were
awarp that the gadee of Sattxa 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 had resolved to do
was to wait for the views and opinions
of Mme Government of India. Ile (Mr. Thompson)
ear pestly hoped and prayed that when those opinions