The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-02 00:00:00

the country.
A list of forged seals and documents, purchased by
Lieutenant Charles Ovans, ex-resident at Sattara, of a
gang of robbers, for the sum of 401. and a free pardon,
which were prcdueed in evidence against the Rajah of
Sattara, was then read, and excited profound disgust.
Mr. GEO. THOMPSON then addressed the meeting. He
said he had been in the habit, for six years, of bringing
the question before the India House. He said that the
Directors were never able to substantiate a single charge
against the Rajah. His very accusers believed him to
be a noble and enlightened prince; illustrious for virtue,
and untainted with a shadow of crime. The gentleman
then gave an animated description of the birth and an-
cestors of the Rajah of Sattara, of the institutions of
his country, up to the time of the collision with the
English power; and of the defeat of the Marattahs, when
the infant Rajah and his mother were taken prisoners.
He then showed the superior education and moral attri-
butes appertaining to the Rajah. In 1821, Captain
Duff, his tutor, notified that be vas competent to rule
Sattara. Instances were then adduced of his prudence
in the management of his monetary affairs. He parti-
cularly alluded to a noble instance of liberality exhibited
in the declaration of the Rajah—that every individual in
his dominion should be educated. He entered into a
minute detail of the circumstances which first brought
on a collision between the Rajah and the East India
Company, in a very eloquent strain; observing that it
had been admitted, even by the Court of Directors,
that the principle document against the Rajah was a
forgery, and that the evidence in proof of its being forged
was withheld from the Government by the British!political
agent at the Rajah's court. He then gave a humiliating
description of the interview between Sir Charles Grant
and the Rajah, in which the duplicity of the former
was such as to make General Lodwick, who was present,
to blush crimson for his countryman. He said the
chief evidence, of the charge of conspiracy with
the native governments against the Company's power
had been given by two sepoys, in the British army,
then stationed at Sattara. These men had entered upon
a plot to ruin the Rajah, at the instigation of a Brahmin,
and took the most sacred oath which a Ilindoo could
swear that they would preserve inviolable secresy. These
two men had subsequent interviews with an officer of
their own troop, to communicate first hints, then fuller
statements, respecting a treasonable combination be-
tween the Rajah and the native powers, saying that they
had had private and confidential interviews with the
Prince. This testimony was forwarded to the Bombay
Government, and proceedings against the Rajah were
immediately founded upon it ; the result of which was
as had been already stated to the meeting. For the past
six years the Rajah had been incessantly labouring to pre-
vail on the Indian authorities to give him an opportunity
of rebutting the evidence ; but the only answer he
could get, was, that it was inexpedient to
re open the question. He then stated that several gen-
tlemen, British residents at the Rajah's court for a long
series of years, Generals Briggs, Robertson, and Lod-
wick, had laboured with him in the same cause, but all
in vain. He said if any charge that he bad urged on the
attention of the meeting was found incorrect or false, he
was liable to be committed to Newgate for libel, but he
reiterated every charge, and challenged disapproval.
He then made a stirring appeal to the British public,
adding that he hoped he would not appeal to them in
vain to redress a flagrant wrong, committtd and per-
sisted in by the Indian authorities.
Some other gentlemen afterwards addressed the meet-
ing, which, after thanks had been voted to the chairman,
broke up.

IRISH MARBLES.—The recent importation of green
marble from Ireland was made on the recommendation of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, who expressed his opinion
to a deputation of the Council of the Society of Arts, of
which he is president, of the applicability of the article,
samples of which had been sent over for their official investi-
gation, to various economical and ornamental purposes. It
is not generally known that the position of his Royal High •
ness, as president of the Society of Arts, is not merely hono-
rary, for although he does not take part in its ordinary
proceedings, everything brought to its investigation is sub-
mitted to his private inspection. Amongst other intellectual
qualifications the Prince Consort is a good chemist.
THE SURRENDER OF NOTE KANGRA.—The follow•
ing letter of thanks to the Artillery officers serving in the
capture of this fort was sent by Brigadier Smith to Lieut.-
Colonel Wood :—" Camp Kangra, May 3, 1846.—Sir,—The
surrender of the fort having allowed the return to their re-
gimental duties of the 4th Artillery officers, who have been
acting as assistant-field engineers, I have' to return you my
thanks for the aid you readily afforded, and to mention my
sense of the valuable and zealous exertions of Lieutenants
Wheelright, Holland, Tulloh, and Aachen, brought to my
notice by Major Napier.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your
obedient servant, EDWARD SMITH, Brigadier, Chief Engineer.
—To Lieutenant-Colonel Wood Commanding Artillery
Forces, Kots Kangra."