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meat 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 1.15 Q., SECRETARY TO
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, TO W. H. WATHEN, ESQ.,
CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE•GOVERNMENT OF•DOMBAY.
" Octolser:2, 1.837.
(Political Department.) :-• . •
"1. Sir,—l am des!red 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 en-
, 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 had 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 Meld-try, and for something more 91 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
W the machinations of the evil disposed, under the
influence of discontent and partial insanity, and iltritated
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 feltthat the case
was incomplete, and that to justify the Government in
any strong and final measure, further information was
absolutely necessary. But from all the papers which
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 personhl 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 preceedings of
the Raja has been surrounded and embarrassed.
"4. The evidenen,Mativerto the alleged intercourse of '
the Raja of Sattara with thAx-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 vommuni-
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 of discrepancies ; and it was only after repeated
cross-examinations that they were, induced to implicate
the Raja of Sattara as having any knowledge of the com-
munications. It is remarkable that -Yellotee 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, Abbe! Martel( and his servant Wittoo, &posed,
that the latter was sent to Jondpore to ask whether
Yellojee Bappoo sent people there. •
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"3. Thei/overnor:General in Council sees lit or
nothidg in the evidence recorded in the documents is hich
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 IN Nth the
Hubshee, save that the Hubshee 's Vakeel, who was a rela-
tive of 13n1wunt Row Chitnavees, was introducCd to his
Highness; that the Baja read a letter and afterwards threw
it into the fire, and that he received a present of cocoa-nuts
from Ihilwunt 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 if 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
Parisnees saw himself poshak (clothes) " and u sword
sent to the Raja from the Hubshee," would appear to
imply more titan 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 he 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., observes,
the time necessary to bring these proceedings to 'a close
will necessarily be prolonged. And with refertence to
this declaration, to the length of time which has already
elapsed since this inveetig:ttion 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
piwa-
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 furtlier,detinite and
important disclosures, his Lordship in CoUnt4l 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, vet the British 'Govern-
ment is unwilling, without the clearest proof of
guilt, to condemn any of its allies, (specially 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 itv-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 Ahmedniiggur, his
Lordship in Council observes, that if the suggestion ron-
tained in this letter should lin adopted, the liberation of
the individual in question will probably follow the ces-
sation of further inquiry into the the conduct of the
It: I have the honour, &c.,
(Signed) " W. 11. MACNAGIITEX,
" Secretary to the Governunait of India."
Fort William, October 2, 1837."
LETTER FROM W. 11. MACNAGIITEN, ESQ.,. SECRETARY
To GoYERNMENT, TO W. IL SATIRES, ESQ., dim}
SECRETARY To GOVERNMENT, BOMBAY, DATHI) 16.ra
ocTonEn, 1837.

(Political Department.)
" Sir,—l am desired by the Right Honourable the
Governor-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 the conduct of the
Raja of Sattarn.
" 2. The proceedings reported in the communications
now acknowledged are not, I am desired to state, such ILS
to meet the approbation of his Lordship in Council.
" .. That the Raja of tiattara, t,rgetfel. of all former
obligations, and nettled by an alleged grievance, is disarm
`tested to the British Government, and that he has been
led by designing people, enemies either to bins or to the
British Government, into ae:s intended to-be injurious 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
front the statement which may possibly be mate by
his Lordship in Council sees nothing in all
this evidence which is likel3 to throw light upon the
env:duet of the Neje, so far as it is proper or incumbent
on us to inquire into it ; and under the circumstances of
recent strict dere,,, and expected liberty under which
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SO many qu:lrters instituted should be discontinued as
Aonn pinetieithle, it being. for the real interests of the.
Brili.h ilinvermnent, whilst it ‘watchris and represses with
•1..1.1 tiro and firmness the active movements of insurrec-
tion, to disregard rumours, aml even, in many eau's, the
tai' petty and oh,eure intrigio : &penitence
hying plrxed or the internal power of the empire-Ppon
its own ma ttil,q strength and the fears of the disaffected,
of whom, in the very nature (Jr thing, front the trans-
fer of power and property, there lutist be .many, and
up it the general interests of the population. which cannot
but lie opposed to violent commotion. I lis Lordship in
Is sorry at feeling himself compelled to add, that
in the present instance the idea of mistrust and insecurity
On the paii of the British Government may have been
widely spread, from IZajpootana to Madras and Malabar,
though the atfa'.r is one of no rant importance to our
power.

Against. the fitrther prosecution of these hazard-
ous proceedings, the Governor-General in Council deems
it incumbent upon him to interfere, so as to prevent any
further aggravation of this evil. 1 am.desired, therefore,
to convey the request of his Lordship. in Council, that
the night 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,
results., :is they must do,
to nothing but futile and dis-
credit:ti

6. The Governor-general in Council will look with
some anxiety, though, under the dircutustances, not
without suspicion,
to oily further confession which he
may offer to support, by direct and substantial proof which&
may ix! made by Govind now, as tending-to weldor or
confirm the ori;;ina charge adduced itgitinst the. Raja or

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