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AUGUST 29, 1842

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ment persevered in the investigation, and further reports
of the progress made produced the two following letters
from the Governor-General, dated the 2d and 16th Oc-
tober, 1837 :
LETTER FROM W. H. MACNAGHTEN ESQ., SECRETARY TO
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, TO W. H. IVATHEN, ESQ.,
CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OT BOMBAY.
" October 2, 1837.
(Political Department.)
" 1. am desired by the Right Hon. the Go-
vernor-General of India in Council to acknowledge the
receipt of your several letters, dated the 30th August,
and Ist and 4th ult., together with their respective ea-
closures, relative to intrigues at Sattara.
"2. Copies of the letters to your address, dated the
7th, 21st, and 31st of July, referred to in the Acting
Resident's letter of the 12th ult., have not been furnished
to the Governor-General in Council ; but judging from
the evidence which accompanied your communications
now acknowledged, his Lordship in Council has no hesi-
tation in stating that his worst apprehensions, as ex-
pressed in the concluding paragraph of my letter to your
address, dated August 7, as to the ' danger of becoming
involved in an indefinite and inconclusive inquiry,' have
every appearance of being fully realized.
" 3. The Governor-General in Council bad mainly re-
lied on the result of the investigation which might be
instituted, consequent on the alleged petition of the
Dewan's mother, for a solution of any doubts which
might be entertained as to the accuracy of the conclu-
sions formed by the Commission on the occasion of the
previous inquiry, and for something more of intelligible
precision of its results. By the Report of the Commis-
sion, the Raja of Sattara was left subject to the imputa-
tion of every shade of guilt, from that of lending him-
self to the machinations of the evil disposed, under the
influence of discontent and partial insanity, and irritated
by supposed ill usage, up to that of an extensive treason,
in a great degree matured, and having for its object the
entire overthrow of the British power in India. Much
of the evidence by which even this imperfect result was
obtained, was uncertain and unsatisfactory ; and whilst
his Lordship in Council was willing to place confidence
in the judgment of the Commission, he felt that the case
was incomplete, and that to justify the Government in
any strong and final measure, further information was
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absolutely necessary. But from all the papers whicia
have since come before him, he has seen increased reason
to doubt whether any certain grounds of action can pos-
sibly be obtained amidst the intrigues, the personal ani-
mosities, and the exaggerated rumours of all descrip-
tions, by which the investigation into the petty and ob-
scure details of the supposed treasonable proceedings of
the Raja has been surrounded and embarrassed.
" 4. The evidence relative to the alleged intercourse of
the Raja of Sattara with the ex-Raja of Nagpore, as de-
tailed in the documents which accompanied your letter of
the Ist ult., is, in the opinion of his Lordship in Council,
in the highest degree suspicious. The alleged communi-
cation between Yellojee Bappoo and the ex-Raja of Nag-
pore, is admitted to have originated in some domestic
concern. The evidence of that individual and his servant
are full cf discrepancies ; and it was only after repeuted
cross-examinations that they were induced to implicate
the Raja of Sattara as having any knowledge of the com-
munications. It is remarkable that Yellojee is repre-
sented as having been the person through whose means
the intercourse between the Raja of Sattara and the ex-
Raja of Nagpore was first set on foot ; and yet the two
witnesses, Abba Mureek and his servant Wittoo, deposed,
that the latter was sent to Joudpore to ask whether
Yellejee Bappoo sent people there.
" 5. The Governor-General in Council sees little or
nothing in the evidence recorded in the dOcuments which
accompanied your letter of the 4th ult. to inculpate the
Raja. There is no direct evidence against his Highness
of any kind, as regards the supposed intrigue with the
Hubshee, save that the Hubshee's Vakeel, who was a rela-
tive of Bulwunt Row Chitnavees. was introduced to his
Highness; that the Raja read a letterand afterwards threw
it into the fire, and that he received a present of cocoa-nuts
from Bulwunt Row Chitnavees. Against the last-
named individual no criminality is established. There
is nothing of a treasonable nature in the paper found
concealed in the doll, and it' there was, evidence has
been given to prove that he (the Chitnavees) was not the
author of its contents. His Lordship in Council, of'
course, attaches no weight to the unsupported rumours
of intrigues in all directions, alluded to by the witnesses
whose depositions accompanied your letter of the 4th
ultimo. His Lordship in Council observes, that the ex-
pressionS contained in the 6th paragraph of your letter
to the Acting Resident, that the witness Wittul Row
Parisneee saw himself pcshak (clothes) " and a sword
sent to the Raja from the Hubshee," would appear to
imply more than was actually stated by the witness, as
his Lordship in Council cannot discover that Wittul Row
asserted he saw the things in question actually sent to
the Raja.
" 6. As for the alleged combinations with the Portu-
guese, and with Arabia, alluded to in the documents
which accompanied your letter of the 31st ult., the Go-
vernor-General in Council could not but regard such
plots (even had the accounts which had been furnished
of them seemed less improbable than they do), to be too
extravagant to be entertained for a moment by any per-
son in his senses; while it appears from the Report of
the Commission that the Raja of Sattara is by no means
deficient in understanding.
" 7. The Acting Resident, in the ninth paragraph of
his letter to your address, dated the 12th ult., Aserves,
the time necessary to bring these proceedings to a close
will necessarily be prolonged. And with reference to
this declaration, to the length of time which has already
elapsed since this investigation commenced, and to the
excitement and alarm which inquiries so extended and
protracted must necessarily occasion, I am desired to re-
peat the suggestion contained in the concluding para-
graph of my letter, dated the 7th of August, and
yet more strongly to urge the inconvenience and un-
certainty of these proceedings, and the absolute necessity
of bringing them to an early termination. In the hope-
lessness that all further evidence will be otherwise than
inconclusive, and looking to the utmost degree of crimi-
nality, which in any view of the testimony before the
Commission may be regarded as clearly and absolutely
established, looking, too, to the interval which has since
elapsed in inquiries leading to no further definite and
important disclosures, his Lordship in Council would
gladly find that the Right Honourable the Governor in
Council is disposed to concur with him in opinion, and
would close the proceedings; apprising the Raja that,
although several suspicious circumstances regard-
ing his Highness have been elicited during the
progress of this inquiry, yet the British Govern-
ment is unwilling, without the clearest proof of
milt, to condemn any of its allies, especially one who has
been so pre-eminently the object of its favour and gene-
rosity ; that further investigation is deemed inexpedient
with reference to the general inconvenience it creates ;
and that the Right Honourable the Governor in Council
is therefore pleased to close the inquiry, with the ex-
pression of his hope that the Raja will so conduct him-
self for the future as to avoid the predicament (no less
painful to the British Government than to his Highness)
in which he has been recently placed.
"8. As regards the Dewan, who is now under-
stood to be in confinement at Ahmednuggur, his
Lordship in Council observes, that if the suggestion con-
tained in this letter should be adopted, the liberation of
the individual in question will probably follow the ces-
sation of further inquiry into the the conduct of the
Raja. I have the honour, &c.,
• (Signed) " W. H. MACNAGHTEN,
" Secretary to the Government of' India."
" Fort William, October 2, 1837."
LETTER FROM W. H. MACNAGHTEN, ESQ., SECRETARY
TO GOVERNMENT, TO W. H. WATHEN, ESQ., CHIEF
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT, BOMBAY, DATED 16TH
OCTOBER, 1837.

(Political Department.)
" Sir,—l am desired by the Right Honourable the
Governer-General of India in Council to acknowledge
the receipt of your several letters of the dates noted in
the margin, together with their respective enclosures,
on the subject of the inquiry into tile conduct of the
Raja of Sattara.

2. The proceedings reported in the communications
now acknowledged are not, I am desired to state, such as
to meet the approbation of his Lordship in Council.
" 3. That the Raja of Sattara, forgetful of all former
obligations, and nettled by an alleged grievance, is disaf-
fected to the British Government, and that he has been
led by designing people, enemies either to him or to the
British Government, into acts intended to be injnrious to
that Government may be conceded; but the result of the
later proceedings of the Right Honourable the Governor
in Council has, I am desired to add, tended rather to
Weaken than to strengthen the case against him,
for they prove either the extent of the false-
hood which is mingled with these accusations,
or the • imbecility with which the Raja is capable
of entertaining projects of so wild a description. Except
from the statement which may possibly be made by
Gorind Row, his Lordship in Council sees nothing in ail
this evidence which is like') to throw light upon the
conduct of the Raja, so far as it is:proper or incumbent
on us to inquire into it ; and under the circumstances of
recent strict duresse and expected liberty under which
this evidence is to be elicited, it must be received with
very considerable caution.

4. Adverting to these considerations, I am desired
to state that the papers now acknowledged have strongly
confirmed the Governor-General in Council in the opinion
already eypressed, that this perplexed and protracted
scrutiny should be at Once brought to a conclusion, or at
least that all the collateral inquiries which have been in
so many quarters instituted should be discontinued as
soon nr practicable, it being for the real interests of the
British Government, whilst it watches and represses with
vigilance and firmness the active movements of insurrec-
tion, to disregard rumours, and even, in many cases, the
realities of petty and obscure intrigues ; dependence
being placed for the internal power of the empire epon
its own manifest strength and the fears of the disaffected,
of whom, in the very nature of things, from the trans-
fer of power and property, there must be many, and
upon the general interests of the population, which cannot
but be opposed to violent commotion. His Lordship in
Council is sorry at feeling himself compelled to add, that
in the present instance the idea of mistrust and insecurity
on the part of the British Government may have been
widely spread, from Rajpootana to Madras and Malabar,
though the affair is one of no real importance to our
power.

" 5. Against the further prosecution of these hazard-
ous proceedings, the Governor-General in Council deems
it incumbent upon him to interfere, so es to prevent any
further aggravation cf this evil. lam desired, therefore,
to convey the request of his Lordship in Council, that
the Right Honourable the Governor in Council of Bom-
bay will be pleased to abstain from all further inquiries
upon collateral points, or other measures of this nature,
leading, as they must do, to nothing but futile and dis-
creditable results.

4. 6. The Governor-General in Council will look with
some anxiety, though, un!-ler the dircuntstances, not
without suspicion, to any further confession which ho
may offer to support by direct and substantial proof which
may be made by Govind Row, as tending to weaken or
confirm the original charge adduced against the Raja or

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