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had answered with the most perfect readiness every call
'or facilitating investigation, becomes, at the proper
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moment, perfectly inflexible, and with powerful, induce-
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ments to yield, refuses to do that which would ha•ve-
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branded him as a hypocrite and a traitor, by signing
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memorandum containing an ackn6wledginent of 1114
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guilt, which he knewa was inconsistent with truth, ':.;;;io !;,0
even though such refusal cost him his throne and his.
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liberty, and banished him to a distant country. It is : 1
my
• belief that the Raja would not wish to
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change his share in these transactions, with all :,...:,a,
its consequences, for ours ; and, for my part, if the - -r,'ll,
conduct of the Raja betrays obliquity of intellect, I atn
free to confess that my intellect is very oblique, and I_ . ,i.
am, further, s 3 misguided as to wish that it may remain ~,,rf
so as long as I live. May my friends have their intellects : ~;
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as aslant as they please ; and may I have for my oppo- ,
wnts those who deem it wise, sagacious, and reason- , e.,
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able conduct to endeavour to persuade high-minded and ' ,;,I';
untried men to sign themselves villains as the condition ;, !,,1
on which they are to be treated with confidence and - '
favour, and who deem it to be no disgrace to sanction. , M'condemnation without a hearing. It may be useful, at .d.' „'i,
the close of this unfortunate history, to compare the first t
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professions and the final practice in the disposal of the '' . . 4,-.
case of the Raja of Satara. The sentiments originally' . . . ..
expressed by the Bombay Government were these :--
" We are not to assume for truth the circtunstanceS
which were asserted* [by Govind Bow and] by 111°

Brahmin emissary."
" Of his Highness the Raja we ought to be very slow'
to entertain such suspicions, and the facts stated by the
two native officers of the 23d, whose depositions Colonel
Lodwick transmits, are of the most equivocal kind so far
as they affect that Prince."
" The honour, indeed, of the British Government.
and also its credit for consistency, are deeply concerned •(
in not admitting, except on the most irresistible evidence, .",„i
the errors of a Prince whom the Government raised from
a prison to a throne, whom it has ever since fostered
with friendly care, and from whom it has uniformly re; „ • ~;
ceived all tge observances of attachment and confidence. ;/;
" No intention exists of whispering doubtful circuit).
stances to his (the Raja's) disadvantage."
" Subject to the question, whether by the least at-
tempt to seduce our native troops from their loyalty, ,
ought not to be considered an unpardonable offence, our
case against the Raja was not at that time (on the ter- ,
mination of the Commission) a very strong one. The
evidence, though satisfactory to us, was such as mighV
be questioned without any obstinate incredulity." .- • irue
Let us see how far these sentiments have been acted
up to. Is the evidence on the Sepoy seduction case nie,4%;,;04°
irresistible ? Do the enormities of Untajee, the calitkr,lrt
demnatory discrepancies of the Soobadars, and their..
proved falsehood regarding the receipt of pan (betel f a
nut) at the Palace ; the perjuries of Cosia Macleo,
the
unwillingly yielded evidence of Abba Mohitey, - Wh° lilllos
would not admit that he had said that he had seen tbe.-'',0,1:01
Soobadars enter the Palace, until he found himself de'. ,;44
nounced by Elojee Mohitey, whom the Raja exposed am:--..fi,„al`
Captain Grant Duff as an intriguer, and whom he refused ~,40;of
to gratify by assigning to him property in his mothers._
possession? Do all these furnish us with no possible means. ,r3li
of resisting the evidence on the Sepoy seduction case
Is the evidence on the Joudpour case most irresistible
Is it the extreme probability, amounting almost to cer7
tainty, that the Raja would send a messenger to a p?or,
friendless, destitute Prince, more than half a religious
mendicant, to suggest that he would " make preparations
to join in a war against the English," to request that bec„
would use his good officers in persuading the Sooltan
Constantinople to " let the Russians march throve.
Turkey to India," and "to beg him to transmit 25 or 30 • •
lacs of rupees to enable the Portuguese troops to capture •
Nagpoor, and that the Raja would authorise, with aeli
treasonable intent, the transmission to such retitle
Prince, of an old sword ; is it., I say, the extreme probe-
bility and almost certainty of these occurrences, that
forces us to believe them, when those who tell us of °he:
are almost all persons opposed to the Raja, who 7t,b; .
further, had no opportunity whatever of answering :0, ..
charge? Is the evidence on the Goa case most irreeLt
tible ? Is it so very probable as to be almost certain
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Brahmins, well known to hate the Raja, as he 11152 in.
known to hate them, should carry on a treasons fir,
trigue for the elevation of the Raja and on European POl4-,.„
ou the ruins of the British Indian Empire. the
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'should serve the enemy and oppressor of their traw
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such matchless fidelity, as to have protected him age
detection for twelve years or more ; that such lin oose ,
power should be the Portuguese, abhorred by
and Brahmins in particular,for their religious int°lera-tbat
Is it so very probable as to be almost cert,"°4 in
the Raja should place such enormous till' and
the most bigoted of Brahmins, opposing their
irritating them, as he constantly did by resisting
nit',
retensions—that he should invest one of this ctiste,;onie full
,
ull powers to use his seal in traitorous corernulate/IT, b,
and to receive and keep for him treasonable letters ivP
per,
the Raja never saw, and write for him, in like Man., 0,
treasonable answers, and seal and send them ? Is I"of
very probable, as to be almost certain, that the party in
negotiators, when the head of the embassy died, being f
want of money, and having with them the portfolio
the
treasonable communications between the Raja and t
Viceroy of Goa, and an affecting appeal on their behafta
from their expiring Chief to the master whom he 13
served so long and so faithfully, should engage in t",,
occupation of gang robbery, so dangerous, and, I owe:
say, so little creditable to the diplomatic body, rather
than solicit aid from the Raja, from whom, if necessary',
. they could extort it by threats of discovery, which to .
him would, to use Sir Robert Grant's words, have been
" ruin irremediable ?" Is it so very probable as .to be
almost certain that the Raja, having these persons in li
employ for so long a time, on this dangerous service,
should have shown no uneasiness on the demise of the
principal agent, and made no effort to secure the safe
custody of his treasonable papers, which the thought--_
less and needy members of his embassy were pawning
for -Id ? Is it so very probable as to be almost certehl
that the Viceroy of Goa should seriously enter into-tlii!
treasonable intrigue, and bind his Sovereign to sena'
30,000 troops with powder and shot to India, to sub/ell
the British power in that country, having previously, hY.
deputing to Sattara a member of one of the liberal pre-
fessions as a special messenger to make the inquiry, ,sa-
tisfied himself that the request for this aid was duly real
by the Raja's authority ? Are all these things, I weal'
ask, so very probable—so almost certain—as to fore!
our belief in the reality of the so-stated malignant plo
of long duration between the Raja and the ViceroYo
notwithstanding that the Raja's connexion with Of
part of the story is limited to one or two most incon-
elusive circumstances—notwithstanding that these er
tirely depend, and the case itself -largely depelins_
on the oral evidence of the Raja's
enemies, gang-robbers, a fraudulent bankrnu
a collector of obscene songs l—notvvithstandieg
that the 'Raja's intercepted confidential coririe
spondence is totally silent on the subject ; and, fili„ln Y„'
notwithstanding the avowed disbelief of the Bight
the late President of the Board of Control ? And furthe';
is the belief thus irresistibly, forced upon us so Perfecto
and so satisfactory, as to make it entirely „perfluous_e
allow his Highness an opportunity of answering the
allow
charge Sir, I. for my part, entertain a total disbelief
pott,orsonecTi
all the three charges, and declare myself, therefore'
against the motion for adjournment.

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* Sir Robert Grant's Minute, July 23, 1836, as quot be
S. P. id. p. 11. I think that the words in brackets ID°
a mistake, but I have not ascertained this..

On Saturday, at the Insolvent:, Debtors' Co, his
Lord George Loftus (son of the Marquis of Ely) file"
schedule, previous to obtaining a hearing for Deceethe_
next. In his affidavit he stated that his father refused "I;
pay his debts. His Lordship has been in the Fleet Pris°,
since February last, and has had an allowance darl &e
that time of 61. per week from his father, the seine ell°7;
ance which has been paid him a great many years: h'rreji
debts, in the aggregate, are set forth at 15,2541, or w"ho'
9,1511. are without consideration. In the year 18389 "„t
Marquis of Ely paid debts for the insolvent to the el%
of 3.0001. The insolvent stated that many of his new
arose from having become party to various bills of 0"
change for Captain the Hon. F. W. Byng, for whieh.bri
never received any consideration, and on three of 041,1 en,
he was in custody. The insolvent was formerly en Pia
sign in the Grenadier Guards, which commission het °,O
some time ago. Amongst the items in the schedule,nnt
are extracted, as extending from 1836 to the preseii„,
year. Paid for admission to places of amusement,,,_
braries, &c., 1,2001." " Lost by play and betting doll:
this time, but of which I can give no particular et e°,lllo
about 10,0001." There does not appear in the sellea°
any property for the creditors, who are principally eeell. 7. •
posed of persons who figure in " bill transactions.„o, .i
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issued a notice on the 23d, stating that the average prices
of corn, during the period from the 20th of July to 19th
August, 1842, both inclusive, were as follow :—Wheet'
9f. 69c. per muddle (a muddle is about four bushels);
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4f. 35c. ditto ; oats 2f, 94c. ditto. .