, 1865-12-12
An English Child Sold tn an Indian
MhWnh-A Remarkable and Infamous


:. The English papers copy the following story
from the Delhi (Indial Gazesse Of October 81 ::
!. It appears that q certain chief who holds
sway In the State Of HhatEa, In the Kattyayar
territory, and who Is naued Ehamaldeen, or
Kuma1oodceE, lately concelveda desire to add
to the live stock In his harem, although bow
cd down by the weight of seventy years. by
procuring IN English girl aud inducing hcr to
take up her residence within It's sacred pre-
ctncts. For this purpose emis.aries were ucs-
PATCHED to Ahnledabad, where lived an
EEg'i>h hEan with his wife aud children. They
we're Issolutc couple. by oil accounts, and
Of cOuEsc had long rubbed skirts with poy-
erty,; yet tAey had something which the
wealthy chief OF Bhatwa did not possess.
They had an English girl, their daughter.
named Anne, girl of about fourteen years
OF 1ge, aud the Bhatwa emfbsurjes having
looked about them and ascertalned the rt-
sources Of the place at ones determined to
make the parents IN offer for the person Of
their daughter. The sum Of three thousand
ruEess Vas the tempting bait which was to
make them drive their little fish into the
Nawab OF Bhatwa's net, and the experiment
succeeded. The father agreed, for and in
consideration Of three thousand rupees, to
consign LIS daughter for her life 10 the tender
care OF KnmalGodeen- The bargain having
been struck, the contracting parties made The
best Of their way to Bhatwa, where the money
u.
rived at their dc estimation, this child Of four
teen, the offspring Of English parents, aud
daughter OF the Christian church, was handed
over to her purchaser, and the dcIicate.mind-
ed parents bec1me the tappy possessors OF
three thousand rupees.
At this stage Of the proceedings cleryy-
man, the chaplain of Rajkote, to whom Tic
between The unnatural parents Of anne and
her brutal purchaser, BY calling upon the
political agent Of kattyawar 10 exert his
authority and rescue the child from the de-
struction to which, body and soul, abe waa
doomed by her natural guardians. Our cor
respondent does not youch for the truth Of
tns report which has reached him touching
matter, but what be says ls, that Anne, after
she had become itee Nawab's property, was
solemnly made to allure the errors OF tho
Christian chmch, and forncl]y received into
communion with the follows.s Of tho truc
prophet. The political officer, 1t IL said, ,dcput-
ed his jemadar to be present at the ccre-
mony, and this functionaTy brought him q
full md particular account Of all That took
place On the OCCASION
The next step taken in regard TO tho child
was to marry her, after the Mohammedan
fashion, to her purchaser, but before this In
tercstlrg ceremony (which, ne believe, is not
regarded qnitc in the light Of 4 sacrament BY
the sons Of pecce) was performed, the politi-
cal officer Is reported to have caused tho
youthful bridegroom, Just turned seventy,
to d:aw mp a marriage settlement, by which
the new light Of tic ha1em Is secured in tho
possession Of IN income Of rupccs two
thousand and odd per annnm. including
m Hem Of thirty rupees Tor pan and
souFaree, which may be looked upon Us
m equivalent for pin money. The political
agent, however, wns not satisfied with this
provision for the present wunts Of Anne, and
being a farsiehled man be took care TO secure
her against any unpleasant accident, such as
deserion, for instance, TINT might happen In
the future. He caused another decd 10 be
drawn up, by which It Il stipulated that in the
event OF her being at any tfmc bantshcd from
that blessed abode Of virtue, the harcna, she
IS to receive, for tho term oil her naturnl life,
the handsome allowance Of 25oss- per men,
sern. or = CfKra. ner nnnum.