The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-23 00:00:00

DEATH OF LORD BA TEAIAN.

We have to record the decease of a third member of the Upper
House of Parliament within the short space of as many days. The
nobleman whose name is prefixed to this article expired at an early
hour yesterday morning, at his mansion in Portman-square, after
a very brief illness. His Lordship left town on Saturday week
for Kilmarsh, the family seat, in Northamptonshire, travelling via
the London and Birmingham Railway. While in tke train his
I *Lordship was attacked with indisposition; but rallying before he
r'a'ped the end of his journey, he remained throughout the week
at Niimarsh, attended by the local medical man. Finding him-
self no better, his Lordship determined to return to London
on Saturday last, and on that day he arrived in Portman.square,
where Lady Bateman and the other members of his family
were staying. .11:1r.. Johnson, the family physician, was called
in immediately, Lila we believe at that time the fatal termination
which has so shortly ensued was not at all anticipated. His Lord-
ship had been In a delicate state of health for some years, and it
was considered that a temporary cessation from active engagements
would be sufficient to restore him. Unfortunately this hope was
not realised. On Monday it became evident that his Lordship
was sinking fast, and no favourable change having taken place in
his symptoms, the Noble Lord expired, without pain, as above
stated, at half-past six o'clock yesterday morning, in the presence
of Lady Bateman and various other men*ors of his family. The
deceased Nobleman was lineally descended from William Han.
bury, Esq., of Kilmarsh, in Northamptot:sbae, who married
Sarah, eldest daughter and co-heir of William Western,
Est., of Rivenhall, in Essex, by Anne, one' daughter
of Sir James Bateman, Knight, Lord Mayor of London in 1717,
and sister of William, created Viscount Bateman, in the Peerage of
Ireland, in 1725. This peerage becoming extinct with the death
of the second Viscount in 1802, the family estates passed to the
eldest son of the above-named William Hanbury, Esq., who died
in 1807, and was succeeded by his eldest son, the deceased Peer,,
who, in 1837, was called to the Upper House by the title of
Baron Bateman, of Shobden, in the county of Hereford, and
has since, by royal letters patent, assumed the name of Bate-
man before that of Hanbury. The deceased Nobleman was
born in June, 1780, and had consequently attained his 65th
year. His Lordship married in August, 1822, Elizabeth,
second daughter of the late Lord Spencer Stanley Chichester,
niece of the present Marquis Donegall, by whom he leaves issue
four daughters and two sons, the eldest of whom, the Hon. William
Bateman, born July 28, 1826, succeeds to the family honours and
titles. The deceased nobleman was a Peer of Viscount Melbourne's
creation, and invariably supported Whig measures. His Lordship
held the office of Lord Lieutenant for the county of Hereford. The
Hon. W. Hanbury (now Lord Bateman) left town for Antwerp on
Sunday, at which time the deceased nobleman was considered to be
going on very favourably. A courier was yesterday dispatched,
conveying the melancholy intelligence to his Lordship. Lady
Bateman and the other branches of the family are suffering very
acutely under their sudden and distressing bereavement.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 22.
COLONIAL LANDS.

Mr. DENISON wished to ask a question relating to the
Coloninl Department. He wished to know whether it was the
intention of the Government to introduce, at this late period of
the session, a Bill which was now in preparation, and if it were
introduced, whether it was their intention to pass it through
the House ?
Mr. HOPE said .that the Bill referred to was a Bill for re-
gulating the unsold waste lands in Australia. The reason of
their delaying the measure till this late period of the session
was occasioned by the desire to have personal communication
with the parties interested in that colony. As regarded the
intention of carrying the Bill this session, much depended
upon the feeling with which it would be received.
Mr. DENISON said it would be impossible to say what
course it would be best to pursue till the Bill was produced be-
fore the House, and they knew its nature. He put it to the
Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) whether it was right
that the Bill should be introduced under the circumstances
stated by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ?
,Sir ROBERT PEEL thought that each measure should
stand upon its own merits. He did not think it inconsistent to
go on with the Bill, if it came from the House of Lords.
Mr. AGLIONBY asked if it was a fact that the Bill vested
the mines and minerals in the Crown, with the consent of the
proprietors of the colony ?
in Mr. HOPE said that it was not n cessary so to state it in
the Bill, as those were already vest the Crown.
DUKE OF YORK'S CLAIM sl IN NOVA SCOTIA.

21r. WARBURTON wished to ascertain if the returns of the
revenue from the mines and minerals in Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, ceded by the Crown to the late Duke of York, could
be had.

Mr. HOPE replied that the returns filled a large mass of
paper, but if the Hon. Gentleman would state what he wanted
there would be no difficulty in supplying him with what he
wanted.
THE RAJA OF SATTARA.

Mr. lIUME said that he had for a long time had a motion
on the paper, which he was most anxious to bring before the
House, and he would promise them that he would be very
short indeed in his address to them. That motion was as fol.
follows :—" That an humble address be presented to her Ma-
jesty, that she will be graciously pleased to direct inquiry into
the alleged charges against the l'ertaub Shen, late Raja of
Sattara, and whether he has been furnished with a copy of
the charges and evidence against him, on which he was de-
posed from his Raj, and now lives a state pensioner at Benares,
and that her Majesty will be pleased further to cause strict
inquiry to be made into the charges of bribery and corruption
by Knuschnajee Sadusce Bhidley (as stated in the papers
before the House) against Colonel Ovans, whilst resi-
dent at Sattarah, and against Ballsjee Penil Nattoo,
who assisted Colonel Ovans at the Court of Sattara." It was
a subject which he was at all times unwilling to obtrude upon
the House ; and the fact that since 1840 he had only done so
twice, was sufficient evidence of the fact. But now he felt
himself comi cited by a sense of duty, to again re-introduce
the matter, or it affected not only the character of that per-
sonage, but also involved that of an officer in their service. He
did not apprehend that the whole discussion would occupy a
long time. It was very true that there had been documents
laid upon the table, but they were so very voluminous that he
feared few Members would have read them. He should first
refer to the petition laid before that House in July, 1842,
when it was stated, that a Sovereign deprived of his property,
refused justice or inquiry, by the Councils of Bombay and
Bengal, was compelled to come to that House as a
last resort, in order to obtain the justice which
was refused him in every other quarter.—( Hear. )
By the treaty of 1819 his sovereignty and revenues were se-
cured to him. For twenty years he remained at the head of
his government, in alliance with the British Government.
After that long term of rule, the Directors of the East India
Company expressed their approbation of his conduct by a vote
of thanks, and the presentation of a sword. The letter
carrying the vote of thanks stated the high satisfaction of the
Court at the signal wisdom and moderation with which he had
discharged the important duties of the station in which Provi-
dence had placed him. The testimony of the several residents,
Generals Duff, Robinson, and Lodwick, up to 1836, was equally
in favour of his integrity of character and his good govern-
ment.—(The Hon. Member then read extracts from the cor-
respondence of those gentlemen, in which they declared that
they could nut believe him guilty of the silly crimes with which
he had been charged.) He bore a character for moderation
in his treatment of his jageerdars, and in the raising of his
revenues, as well as for morality and fidelity, such as had never
been possessed by any Indian ally of our Government. The
first subject of difference between him and the Government
was that he claimed his right to govern the jageerdars without
the interposition of the Bombay Presidency. The con-
duct of that Preisdency
was especially blameable ameable in
this, that at the first commencement of the dif-
ferences it withheld the sword and the vote of thanks.
The next step was to send out hints to the resident—Colonel
Ovans, of which the tenor was, that he was to get up a charge
against the Raja. In 1836, the Bom
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Raja—one of them, for which Colonel Ovans gave 400 rupees,
was that of conspiring with the Portuguese at Goa to expel the
British from India Now, this Government was on the most
friendly terms with Portugal at the time, and was Don
Manuel, the Governor of Goa, ever asked if such a conspiracy
had been attempted? The second charge was that the Raja
had entered into a traitorous correspondence with the
Raja of Nagpore. The third was that he had at•
tempted to corrupt the subadars of the native
regiments. The evidence before the secret commission
was absurd. But the Commissioners offered to leave the
Raja in his proper position if he would sign a document
acknowledging his guilt. This he properly refused to do, and
he was taken out of his palace and carried off in exile to
Benares, where he had remained ever since. The Hon. Gen-
tleman then went through a detail of the proceedings con-
nected with the inquiry, and exposed the absurdity of the state-
ments on which the charges against the Raja were
grounded, and the corruption practised to obtain witness, a
against that unfortunate Prince. The Hon. Gentleman also
read, at considerable length, extracts from the correspondence
I between the Raja's friends on the one hand, and his persecuto:*
on the other, the particulars of which have already appeared
fully in the columns of The Sun. He would not tire the
House by going into the details of this subject, but he could not