The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-08 00:00:00

tion as the original report. Mr. Money admits I
was quite right in stating that Lord Clyde remon-
strated with him next morning on the severity and
impolicy of the execution ; and indeed I had the
best authority for that and for other statements
which some people in authority have found it con-
venient to affect to discredit in England, but he
does not seem to be aware that in a pargraph of
one of my letters written long ago I, as an act of
justice, mentioned that there was reason to believe
Mr. Money had good grounds for ordering the man's
execution, and that his conduct in doing so had
been directly approved by the Indian Government.
That the man was an active enemy is beyond a
doubt, but, at first it was said his guilt had been
limited to the treason, petty as it would have been.
of continuing to act under the rebel rule, when all
traces of the British Government had been for the
time utterly annihilated in Rohilcund, in the capa-
city in which he had served the East India Com-
pany. Mr. Money is an active, able, and zealous
magistrate, quite as humane as his fellows, and I
have great pleasure in forwarding for publication
his own account of the transaction.
STATEMENT.
" Ahmud Yar Khan had, for some time previous to the
mutiny on the 31st of May, 1857, held the situation of
Tehseeldar of Jellalabad, 20 miles distant from Shahjehan-
pore. On the overthrow of our authority he presented
himself before the rebel Nawab, Goolam Kadir Khan, who
had been appointed Mazim or provincial governor, and on
his own solicitation he was allowed to retain his post as
Tehseeldar. Subsequent to this he sent a Nuzzar to the
Nawab Khan Bahadoor Khan, at Bareilly, and petitioned
to be made Naib Nazim of that part of the district. Ho
obtained a warrant of appointment, and this document was
afterwards discovered among other treasonable records in
the fort of Jellalabad on its re-occupation by our troops.
" The Tehseeldar, during his tenure of office under the
rebels, raised a force of horse and foot, but, finding he was
not strong enough to compel the well-disposed zemindars
to pay the revenue, he requested and received the assistance
of troops from Nawab Khan Bahadoor Khan. With this
additional force he plundered and burnt no fewer than 17
villages, and inflicted considerable loss of life. On the
day of the arrival of the Rohilcund force at Jellalabad, I
was apprized, by a verbal message, that Ahmud Kar Khan
wished to surrender himself. No inducement to come
in or any hope of pardon has been held out by me, and as
the proof of the man's guilt was perfectly clear I saw no
grounds for mercy, and, further, that his execution on the
very spot where he had so traitorously betrayed his trust
would have the best possiblc effect ; and I have reason to
believe, from what I' have since learnt, that such has been
the case.

" On the conclusion of the trial I went personally to the
Commander-in-Chief, and also to General Mansfield, and
obtained an order for the services of the Provost Sergeant
to carry out the execution, which was attended by a guard
of 20 men of her Majesty's 79th Highlanders. On the fol-
lowing morning, at the end of the march,
.his Excellency
came up to me, and, to my surprise, acquainted me that he
considered the execution of the Tehseeldar to have been
impolitic.
_ _ _

A I have only to add, in conclusion, that most certainly
no remonstrance whatever was addressed to me previous to
the execution of the Tehseeldar.

G. P. MONEY, Magistrate and Collector of Shahje-
hanpore, and late Civil Officer with the Rohilcund
Force under his Excellency the Commander-in-
- Chief.
Shahjehanpore Sept. 7."