The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

" Honourable Sire, •
Wo, the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock, duly qua-
liflcd by law, reetnest that yon will couvono a Special General court
of Probrietore. tor the purpose of taking into con.isieratiun the ao-
compAnying Resolutions, and that you will be pleased to publish the
slum with this, our requisition.
" We have the hononr to be,
" Honourable Sits,
" Your obedieht Servants,
(Slgnod) "JOSEPH HUME.
J, SULLIVAN.
ARTHUR JAMES LEWIS.
41E0. THOMPSON.
CHAS. GRANT.
ROB I'. J. BACISHAK.
CHAS. rortisEs.
JOHN POYNDER.
J. W. GltAliAll."
hat All the peace and security of our possessions in
India depend mainly on the faithful observance of existing treaties,
tt is most important that the East India Company should maintain
all engagements with the Native States with inviolable good faith
and honour.

That a treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance betwe(n the
HOnourable East India-Company and his Highness Maharaja Pertaub
Shean, hls twirl and successors. was concluded on the 25th of Sep-
ternh.r, IS t 9, and afterwar4 duly ratified, by which, in consideration
of the antiquity of the Ileuse of his highness the Raja .of., Sattars,
and for State reasons of porautouzlimportsuice, the British Govern-
ment agreed to eede, in perpetual Sovereignty is him, Ails heirs, and
suooe•sors, the territory of Sattara, for the maintertanco of his family
inComfort and - •
"fhat his Highness the late Raja for Rower& of seventeen years
gooyerned his country and fulfilled all the conditions ot-hls treaty with
this Britielraoventrnent In so exemplary A manner, that in Decent-
bee l8:t4, the Court of Directors unanimously, with the sanction of
the Board of Control, sent a sword of honour and a letter to his
Highness, which letter was expressed la the following words :
" Your Highness,

" We have been highly gratifisd with the information front time t•
time transtnitted to us by oar Government. ou the subject of your
Illzhness's exemplary 'fulfilment of the duties of that elevated situa-
tion is which it has pleased Providence to place you.
" A course of conduct so suitable to your Highness's exalted sta-
tion, :tad so well calculated to promote the prosperity of your do
minions, and the happiness of your people as that which you hays
wisely slid usifersaly pursued, while it reflects the highest boasts ott
your ewe character. has imparted to our minds these ...lino of
tiled satisfaction and pleasure.

" The liberAllty, also, which you have displayed, in executing at
your own cost, various public works of great utility, and which has 40
justly raised your reputation in the eyes of the princes and people of
India, gives you an additional elaim to our approbation, respect, and
applause.
Impressed with these sentiments, the Court of Directors have
unanimously resolved to transmit to yot a Sword, which will be pre-
Anted to you through the Government of Bombay, and which we
trust you will receive with satisfaction, as a token of their high es-
teem and retard.

" With sineero wishes for your health and prosperity, we subscribe
ourzeires, in the name of the Court,
" Your Highness's
" Meet faithful Ft lends,
(Signed) " W. S. CLARKE, Chairman.
" J. It. CAItNAC, Deputy.
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" filth December, 1538."
" That notwithstanding this unexampled testimony to his
merits as a sovereign and as a man, the late Raja of Sattara was de-
posed by the Government of Bombay on the ith of September, 1839,
tor an alleged breach of treats, and has recently died an exile at
lionares, solemnly protecting his innocence, and never ceasing to de-
mand, to his dying hour. the opportunity of proving, it.
"That Major J.D. Carpenter, the officer who had the custody of the
Raja's person, and was in cens!ant communication with hire for Iso re
titan seven years, from the time of his arrival at Benares up to the
day of his death, wrote his own deliberate opinion, when called upon
in his letter to the Governor-General, dated Benares, 25th May, 1846,
in the following words— (See Parliamentary Papers, No. 711, of
1847 :—" To this end I carefully studied the whole of the ♦oluminou
documents connected with his (the Raja's) case, and the result was a
belief in Ins innocene ; and this belief has been confirmed beyond a
doubt by subsequent disclosures, and by his pled hug himself to prove
it (his innocence) if permitted to do so, in his letter to Sir Henry
Harding., of the 12th December, 1844, forwarded through me, which
pledge I au full persuaded he (the Raja Is able to redeem."
"'that it further appears that the whole of the late Rdja's private
property was seized contrary to a distinct written pledge, under the
hand of Sir James Canine, the Governor of Bombay, confirmed by
three notes from Colonel Grans, the Political Resident at Sattara,
which property was never restored.
" Therefore resolved,— That, considering the responsible functions
entrusted to this Company by the Legislature, and having regard for
the honour of the empire, and security and good government of the
people and princes of India, Oils Court earnestly recommends to the
Court of Directors to obtain the sanction of the Board of Control to
the instituting of a public and impartial inquiry into the charges
brought against the late Raja ofSattara, and into the manner in which
the published evidenoe against lam has been obtained, In order that
the truth or falsehood of that evidence may be made manifest, and
the British Government purged from the imputation of having
treated the late Baja of Sattara harshly,
JAMES C. MELYILL, Secretary.