PSms- Em. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY: A MEMORANDUM, BY MR. WILLIAM FIDLER, LATE OF THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, INDIA OFFICE; WITH SOME ADDITIONS AND AN INDEX, MR. G. M. CRAUFURD, LATE OF THE SAME DEPARTMENT, SHOWING THE LEADING EVENTS (CHIEFLY POLITICAL), CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED, IN THE COMPANY'S CAREER, FROM 1599 TO 1858, THE BEGINNING TO THE CLOSE OF ITS REGIME. LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 18V4- 16148. PREFATORY AND APOLOGETIC. This Memorandum is the product of the private manuscript Note-books which Messrs. Fidler and Craufurd kept to facilitate the business of the Political Department of the India Office, and in which books any facts were jotted down which seemed likely to form subjects of future reference by Secre taries and Under Secretaries of State, Secretaries of Departments, and Members of Council, or which might perhaps be required for Parliamentary Returns. The collection of Notes having proved useful to the Political Department when papers have been wanted in a hurry, it was thought that, when indexed, it might perhaps be of service to other Departments of the India Office than that for which it was originally designed, and might also possibly be serviceable as a book of ready reference to some branches of the Governments in India, and to Government Officers in this country whose business is connected with India ; hence its appearance in its present form. It is by no means a complete record (as any one can see from its length) of all the events which occurred in the 259 years of which it treats, but it aims at giving the salient points and leading incidents in the Company's career. Omissions have doubtless occurred, but the Compilers trust that defects will be overlooked, and that this Memorandum will effect its object, viz., to save time and trouble to persons engaged in official researches connected with India. PRESS NOTICES. " Homeward Mail" 2\st August 1873. An extremely useful compilation has been prepared, and issued in the form of a State paper, by two India Office officials. It consists of a memorandum showing the leading events connected with the rule of the East India Company, chronologically arranged, forming a history of the Company's career from 1599 to 1858 — the beginning to the close of its regime. To Mr. William Fidler, late of the Political Department of the India Office, the public are mainly indebted for this serviceable publication, while additions and an index have been provided by Mr. G. M. Craufurd of the same Department. The work does not profess to be perfect in every detail, but to give the salient points and leading incidents in the Company's career, and appears to be admirably adapted to that end. " Aliens Indian Mail," 26th August 1873. A succinct and very useful Memorandum on the East India Company has just been issued by Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode. It has been compiled by Messrs. Fidler and Craufurd from the private note books which they kept to facilitate the business of the Political Department in the India Office. The notes thus jotted down for purposes of reference, by the heads of that Department were found to be so useful at any pinch, that the compilers have now reproduced them in type, with the addition of a very full index, with a view to aid the researches not only of other Departments in the India Office, but of statesmen in India and Government Officers at home. The work thus offered to the public presents in a few folio pages a complete outline of the history of British India during the 259 years of the Com pany's rule. Every salient point and leading incident in the Company's career finds its place, and the pages bristle with dates and references to all kinds of official and public documents, A few trifling mistakes or oversights might be pointed out, some of which have already been made good in the copy before us. But these in no way detract from the real value of such a compilation, to which future writers on Indian history will turn with gratitude for the great saving of time and labour thereby afforded in the search for trustworthy authorities. " Home News," 29th August 1873. A Memorandum on Indian History. Messrs. Fidler and Craufurd, of whom one was, and the other still is, in the India Office, have just brought out a very complete Memorandum on the East India Company, showing the leading events, chronologically arranged, in the Company's career from 1599, the first yeat of its existence, to 1858, when it ceased to exist as a political body. Twenty folio pages of type condense the history of British India during the two centuries and a half of the Company's rule. The pages are crammed with dates and useful references to official and private records, thus offering invaluable help to future writers and students of Indian history. An index of seventeen pages completes the work, and enhances its value to a vast extent. In such a work errors will of course be detected here and there, but the only one we note of any importance is the confusion,* page 15, between the first Board of Administration in the Punjaub, and the changes which took place in 1854 and 1859. We observe, by the way, that the masterly defence of the Company, as laid before Parliament in 1858, is formally attributed to the late Mr. Stuart Mill, then Examiner of Indian Correspondence. * Corrected in the present edition. (This compilation has been honoured by the special commendation of the late Mr. Herman Merivale C.B., Under Secretary of State for India, of Sir George Clerk, G.C.S.I., K.C.B. and other Indian authorities.) 1609.1611. In the year 1599 a Company was formed in London, for the purpose of trading 1599. with the East Indies. On December 31st 1600, Queen Elizabeth granted them 1600. a Charter, to enable them to trade to the East Indies for fifteen years from Christmas 1600, and they were incorporated under the title of " The Governor and Company 1601. of Merchants trading to the East Indies." In 1602 four of the Company's vessels, 1602. the " Dragon," the " Hector," the " Ascension," and the " Susan," sailed, under the command of Captain Jones Lancaster, to Acheen, in Sumatra, and con cluded with the Sultan of that State a Commercial Treaty (India Register Office, vol. F. L., unbound, page 1). (See memorandum, dated Board of Control, 7th May 1821, No. 396, of Political and Secret memoranda in the basement of the India Office.) This Treaty is the first engagement concluded by the Company with a Native Chief. (Aitchison, vol. 1, p. 303, gives a Treaty of Friendship with Acheen, dated 22nd April 1619). In this 1619 Treaty, as in most other engagements with Native States, is a clause prohibiting treaty relations with foreign powers without consent of Indian Government. The index to Aitchison's Treaties gives, under "Foreign Powers," a list of Native States subject to this restriction. In treaties with many Native States, too, a clause is inserted excluding, either partially or totally, all Europeans from their service. (See No. 122 of papers in basement, which gives a list of all Treaties having this clause). On the 31st December 1609, the Company's Charter was renewed for an indefinite term. In 1611, they obtained permission from the Great Mogul, confirmed by Firman dated March 1612, to establish factories at Surat, Gogree, Ahmedabad, 1612. and Cambay. In 1615, Sir Thomas Roe was despatched from England as the 1615. first Ambassador from King James I. to the Court of the Great Mogul, Jehangeer. A Treaty was entered into with Persia in September 1617. On the 20th January 1617. 1635, a Convention was concluded with Portugal at Goa (East India Papers in 1619. the State Paper Office, No. 160). In 1636, a rival Company, "Courten's Asso- 1635. ciation," (Sir William Courten, one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to 1636' Charles I., being the original grantee), was started in London, and obtained a license to trade with India. In 1642, the Company received its first regular 1642. Despatches from Bengal and Madras, dated 3rd and 5th November, respectively. In 1648 an English settlement was established in Madras. In 1650, the two com- 1648. panies were amalgamated, and styled the " United Joint Stock Company." In 165° 1651, the Company took possession of the island of St. Helena, which had been 1651. abandoned by the Dutch. In 1655, a new Company, called the "Merchant Ad- 1655. venturers," started, having obtained leave of Oliver Cromwell to send trading vessels to India, and in 1657 the "Merchant Adventurers" coalesced with the 1657. original Company. In 1661, a new Charter was granted to the East India Com- 1661. pany which not only confirmed all former privileges, but gave authority to the Company to make war or peace with any Prince or people in India. By Charter dated 3rd April 1661, King Charles II. confirmed the Company in their posses sion of St. Helena. In 1662, Charles II. granted to his brother, the Duke of 1662. York, a Charter for forming a new African Company (for purchasing gold and ivory, and for importing African slaves to cultivate West India property). The East India Company were compelled to surrender their African trade to this new Company. — Agreement dated 16th October 1662. On 23rd September 1668, Bombay was ceded to the Company by King Charles II. 1668. for a pecuniary consideration. The island was part of the marriage portion of His Queen, Catherine of Portugal, vide Article XI., Treaty with Portugal, concluded at Whitehall, 23rd June 1661 (State Papers, vol. 1, p. 494). Sir George Oxinden was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, and certain regu lations were framed. (Letter from the Court to the President and Council at Surat, 24th August 1668.) In 1673, the island of St. Helena, granted to the Company 1673. in 1661 (see above), was captured by the Dutch. It was, however, retaken the same season by Captain (afterwards Sir William) Munden. Having been captured by the Royal fleet, a question arose whether this did not invalidate the 1661 grant, 16148. B 6 so, on December 16th, 1673, a fresh Charter was issued, regranting the island in perpetuity to the Company. (These Charters are not given in the State Papers, but at page 96 of printed Collection of Charters). 1682. This year, for the first time since the date of the 1661 Charter, an attempt was made, in London, to create a new or second East India Stock, in opposition to the Company. In April 1682, Charles IL, by the advice of his Privy Council, rejected the proposals, and continued the monopoly to the Company ; and he also, by Letters Patent dated 9th August 1683, conferred Admiralty jurisdiction on the Company in the country within their limits, to enable them to seize the vessels of "inter lopers" attempting to interfere with their monopoly (printed Collection of 1683. Charters, page 116). On the 27th December 1683, Captain Richard Keigwin, Commandant of Bombay, seized the Deputy Governor, Members of Council, &c, annulled, by proclamation, the Company's rights under Charter, and declared himself Governor in the King's name. On the 19th November 1684 the island was surrendered to the Company by the insurgents. This insurrection at Bombay was the origin of the first Secret Committee, such a body being constituted for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances connected with the revolt. (Letters from the Court of Directors to Surat, dated 18th April and 2nd July 1684. 1684.) In 1684, the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay were constituted Governments. 1689. This year the Court seriously applied themselves to the best method of consoli dating their position in India, in order to acquire a political status there as an independent Power. To this end they framed the following Resolution for the guidance of the Local Governments (Bruce's Annals, vol. 3, p. 78) : — " The " increase of our revenue is the subject of our care as much as our trade; 'tis that " must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade ; 'tis " that must make us as a nation in India, without that we are but a great number " of interlopers, united by His Majesty's Royal Charter, fit only to trade where " no body of power thinks it their interest to prevent us ; and upon this account it " is that the wise Dutch, in all their general advices that we have seen, write ten " paragraphs concerning their Government, their civil and military policy, war- " fare, and the increase of their revenue, for one paragraph they write concerning 1693. " trade." The parties in England styled " interlopers," continuing their persistent efforts to upset the Company's monopoly, the matter was referred to the King, William III., who, by Charters dated 7th October and 11th November 1693, con firmed 28th September 1694, again formally endorsed the Company's monopoly. — (Printed Collection of Charters, pp. 141 and 169.) 1698. In 1698, the necessities of the State induced Parliament to authorize King * Act io, William to incorporate yet another Company, designated " the English Company," Wil1- 3> and a Charter was granted for 21 years.* After the lapse of a few years, however, cap. 44. jj. wag foun(j that the two Companies could not co-exist, and the King himself recommended a negotiation for an agreement to unite them, and accordingly, in 1702. 1702,+ the rival companies were fused under the designation of "The United | 22nd July. Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies." The charter of 1698 is the foundation of the privileges possessed by the Company up to its abolition in 1858. — (See Bruce's Annals of the East India Company (interleaved), 3 vols., 1600 to 1708.) The "interlopers," or "English Company," in spite of their high pretensions, found themselves worsted by the superior intelligence and capacity for business of the Court of Directors, so that in July 1699, when the London Com pany's 100/. stock stood at 140/., theirs (95/. paid up) was at 70/. In 1701, too, they signally failed to procure a firman from the Mogul. On the 27th April 1702 resolutions were passed by the respective Companies agreeing to unite, on the basis of a proposal for a Court of Directors, some from each Company, to manage the affairs of the amalgamated interests. 1701-2. In 1701-2 the Court was endeavouring to establish commercial intercourse with. 1700 China, and also to open out trade with Borneo. In 1700 the Company established a factory in Banjar-Massin, on the south-eastern coast of Borneo, the hostility of the natives, however, caused its abandonment in 1707. — (See enclosures to India Foreign Letter, 10th May (No. 95) 1872 ; also Letter to Foreign Office, 15th March (1868), 1872, with Memorandum attached ; also Parliamentary Returns in 1851 and 1854 ; and Treaty with Borneo, dated May 27th 1847, (State Papers, vol. 35r p. 14.) An indenture, tripartite, between Queen Anne and the two Companies (the 1702. London and English), entitled the Charter of Union, was passed under the Great Seal of England, dated 22nd July 1702. A Court of 24 managers, 12 from each Company, was appointed to act, according to such rules as might be settled by the General Courts of both Companies empowered to make by-laws. — (Printed Collection of Charters, p. 243; and Bruce's Annals, vol. 3, p. 485, &c.) The Charter of the English Company (1698) was to be henceforth that of both ; the London Company having resigned their Charters to the Queen, and the joint Companies were to be styled in future " The United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies." In this year the King of Borneo granted the Company permission to erect a fortification for the protection of their settlement at Banjar-Massin, in Borneo. In the same year the Court of Managers, finding that the attempt to open commercial intercourse with China by means of their settlement on the island of Pulo Condore, was a failure, ordered it to be relinquished, and the garrison and stores* to be transferred to Banjar-Massin. On the 2nd March 1704, however, these views 1704. were defeated by the Macassar soldiers on the island of Pulo Condore revolting, setting fire to the Company's premises there, and murdering the President, Catchpoole, and most of the English in the island. On the 27th June 1707, the 1707. natives suddenly attacked the English Company's settlement at Banjar-Massin, in Borneo, and though at first beaten off, they finally overpowered the English, many of whom were killed, and, as in the case of Pulo Condore, caused the abandonment of the settlement. Although, as we have seen, the rival Companies were virtually fused in 1702, yet still their representatives in India did not co-operate harmoniously, and it was not till 1709, when, by Act 6 of Queen Anne, 1709. the Lord High Treasurer Godolphin was appointed arbitrator, that their differences were adjusted, and their amalgamation completed. In 1714, by a firman of the Emperor of Delhi, the Portuguese were allowed to ll714- import, by paying a duty of only 2\ per cent. Various attempts have been made to abrogate the privilege in question. — (See para. 25 of India Political Despatch, dated 19th August 1829 ; Collections to Political Despatches to India, 31 and 130 of 1872; and the Departmental Memorandum with the latter Despatch ; Corre spondence with the Foreign Office in 1851-52 and 1872-73 ; also, printed Memo randum by Mr. J. R. Melville, Assistant Secretary, Political Department, with Letter to the Foreign Office, dated 18th December (No. 1831) 1872 ; and Bruce's Annals of the East India Company; see also, Letter to the Foreign Office, dated 20th March (No. 1876) 1873, and their reply, dated 26th February 1874, enclosing Historical Protest from the Duke of Saldanha.) At the present time (1874) all English Acts previous to 1727 are appli- 1727. cable to India. Measures are, however, now about to be taken to revise this arrangement. By Despatch to Bengal, 23rd March 1752, the Court prohibited their servants 1752. from holding lands in India, either within or without the Company's jurisdiction, and also from undertaking contracts. The Company continued to act under the 1698 charter, and no event of !756. importance occurred until 1756, when the English settlement at Calcutta was attacked by a Native army of 70,000 horse and foot and 400 elephants. The settlement, Fort William, was compelled to surrender, and the residents, con sisting of 126 Europeans, were thrust into a small pent-up cell, known as the Black Hole, from which only 25 escaped alive, the remainder having died from suffocation. On hearing of these disasters, the Madras Government sent a Naval and Military force to Bengal, under the respective commands of Admiral Watson and Colonel (afterwards Lord) Clive. The army consisted of 3,000 Europeans and Sepoys, commanded by Clive, who defeated Surajah Dowlah, Subadar of Bengal, on the 20th June 1757, at the' famous battle of Plassey, against an army 1757. which numbered 50,000 men. In consequence of this signal victory, the English compelled the Nabob to surrender twenty-four separate districts (the 24 per. gunnahs), and to permit the erection of Fort William. The Company thus acquired almost absolute authority throughout Bengal. Shortly after, the conquest of Patna took place, and thus the English authority in the Eastern settlements of India became established. ; In July 1760, Colonel Clive returned to England, and was raised to the 1760. peerage. On 22nd October 1764, the battle of Buxar was fought, between the 1764. 8 English* and Native Indians, in which the latter were utterly defeated, with the loss of 6,000 men and 130 pieces of artillery. Subsequently, Shah Alum, King of Delhi, threw himself on the clemency of the British, and made over to them the Dewanny of the Provinces of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, and, by an imperial authority from the Great Mogul, the British were empowered to raise and to receive the revenues of the districts, ostensibly as the servants of the Mogul, but 1765. really as his conquerors. From this period of 1765, the East India Company virtually possessed the sovereignty of India. Consequent on these acquisitions, the Court of Proprietors, contrary, however, to the advice and opinion of the Court of Directors, resolved to increase the dividends of the Proprietors from 6 per cent., the rate fixed in 1755, to 12^ per cent. This step induced Parliament to pass a legislative enactment, limiting the dividends to a certain rate. (Act 9, George III., cap. 24.) 1766. The Company obtained, under a treaty with the Nizam, dated 12th November 1766 (Aitchison, vol. 5, p. 14), the territory known as the Northern Circars. In 1767- the following year, 1767, an Act of Parliament was passed, permitting the East India Company to retain possession of all the land it had acquired, on the payment of au annual rent to Government of 400,000/. 177°- On the 21st March 1770, by agreement with the Nawab Nazim of Moorshedabad, Moobaruk-ul-dowlah (Aitchison, vol. 1, p. 68), he was to be retained in his office of Subadar of Bengal, with a stipend of 31 lacs odd ; this was reduced in 1772 to 16 lacs, at which sum it has since remained, 7 lacs being apportioned for His Highness's personal allowance and 9 lacs for Nizamut purposes. The reckless extravagance of the present Nawab has forced Government to step in and appoint a Commissioner in India to investigate his debts, and appropriate some portion of his personal allowance towards their liquidation (India Act (24th November) XVII. of 1873). During his stay in England his personal income is reduced to 6,000/. per annum (India Foreign Letter, dated 19th December (219) 1873. — (For Nawab Nazim's Papers from 1771 to 1806, see No. 3, Range 1, of Miscellaneous Board's Papers, in the basement ; see also Bengal Public Despatches, 15th and 28th February 1823, answered by India General Despatch, 30th July 1823. See Vol. 5, Range 1, of Board's Papers in basement ; also, Memoranda and Collections of Papers in the Political Department.) 1773. In 1773, Warren Hastings was appointed Governor General of India. In the same year, Parliament instituted an inquiry into the affairs of the East India Company. It was considered that the wars which had been carried on in India, the want of control by the Company over its servants, coupled with its financial embarrassments, imperatively called for some legislative interposition. Accordingly two Bills were introduced in Parliament, asserting the right of the Crown to the possession of all the land acquired by the Company in India, establishing a Supreme Court at Calcutta, enacting that no Officer of the Company should be appointed without the approval of Government, and that the Company's servants should be prohibited from receiving presents (bribes) from any Native Prince, and from entering into commercial speculations. (See Act 13 Geo. 3, cap. 63, sec. 24, Act 33 Geo. 3, cap. 52, sees. 62 and 63, Act 3 & 4 Will. 4, cap. 85, sec. 76). By Resolution of Government of India, dated 14th October 1820 (Bengal Political Proceedings of that date, p. 5), Political Officers were ordered to bring all presents from Natives to account : (this is in continuation of an order to other Government servants). With regard to presents, practically, in the Political Department, an Officer has, on depositing its value in the Treasury, usually been permitted to retain a present ; but presents from Natives have been uniformly discouraged. — (India Foreign Letter dated 20th February (42) 1874, furnished for communication to the Colonial Office a summary of the rules in force in India as to acceptance of presents from Natives by servants of Govern ment. Letters to Colonial Office, dated 10th October (1980) 1873, and 13th .. April (2077) 1874.) Minor alterations in the government of the Company were also effected by the above mentioned Acts. By Act 13 Geo. 3, cap. 16, commonly, called the Regulating Act (it being the first legislative measure which denned any system for conducting the Company's affairs), it was stipulated that an individual must possess stock to the amount of 1,000/. to entitle him to one vote in the Court of Proprietors, 3,000/. stock con ferred two votes, 6,000/. stock three votes, and 10,000/. four votes. Proprietors 9 must have held this Stock twelve months before they could vote. The Court of Directors consisted of 24 members, as ordained by the Charter of William III., each Director being required to possess 2,000/. stock. As regards India, a Governor General and four Councillors were appointed for Bengal, each to continue in office for five years. The Presidencies of Madras and Bombay were to obey the orders of the Supreme Government. In 1774, Coja Cazar Gregorio, an Armenian by descent, but a native of Persia, i774' settled in Bengal, and had his principal place of business at Dacca, which became a British dependency in 1765. He traded with a variety of ports, amongst others with Bussorah, in the Persian Gulf, and in 1774, as he was proceeding thither from Calcutta, he died at sea. Property of his, which reached Bussorah, was taken possession of by Mr. Henry Moore, the Resident, and, on the town being besieged in the same year by the Persians, he conveyed the proceeds for safe custody to Bombay, where he took out letters of administration, and in 1786 Rs. 89,594 were paid to the credit of the estate, subject to certain suits. In 1777, letters of administration were taken out at Calcutta for the deceased's estate in that Presidency by one Satoor Gregorio, to whom deceased had given a power of attorney to act for him during his absence and until his return. In 1779, Satoor set up a will, which was alleged to be at Bussorah. This was opposed by one Mighardich, who claimed the entire property at Bombay, as first cousin and next of kin. After a conflict of decision between the Sudder and Supreme Courts of Bombay as to grant of probate, the Privy Council, on appeal, ruled that Coja Cazar Gregorio died intestate. Mighardich died during these proceedings, and in 1787 one Parsedan, an inhabitant of Constantinople, claimed as sole devisee and executor under an alleged will of Mighardich, and also that by Mighardich's death he was now next of kin to Coza Cajar Gregorio. This was opposed by Arzumi, who claimed as sister and next of kin to Mighardich, and by one of her five children, " Sukias," a missionary monk of the Mechitarist order of St. Lazare of Venice, and then residing in Bengal. These Mechitarists are Armenian monks in communion with the Church of Rome, and in Austrian dominions form and enjoy the rights of a spiritual corporation. After much conflict of opinion in Bombay, the Privy Council, in 1798, decreed that the Court at Bombay should distribute the property according to the laws of the country of Gregorio's domicile at the time of his death, and mean while that Sukias and Parsedan should be reimbursed the expenses incurred by them. Accordingly, " Sukias" received Rs. 29,000, and " Parsedan " Rs. 41,179, thus reducing the original sum of Rs. 89,000 to a balance of little more than Rs. 14,000 for distribution. In 1807, this balance was invested by order of the Court of Appeal at Bombay in a Government loan, and it fructified till 1855, when it amounted to Rs. 2,29,135. Under Act 8 of 1855, sec. 51, all moneys that have remained unclaimed in the hands of the Administrators General for 15 years are directed to be carried to the credit of the East India Company " for the general purposes of Government." An account, however, must be kept, and the money paid to parties entitled whenever they shall make good their claim. Accordingly, the accumulations were made over to the Bombay Government this year, and advertisements continued to be periodically inserted, as they had been from 1815, in the local and English Government Gazettes that the sum remained unclaimed. In 1850 a representation was made to the British Government by the Porte, on behalf of some Armenian subjects, and in 1855, at the instigation of the Governor of Bombay, an agent, the Rev. Isaia Misrek, came to Bombay, to pro secute their claims ; in 1857 he presented his credentials to Lord Ellenborough, but died in 1859 ; further time was tben consumed in obtaining a fresh power of attorney from these claimants, over 100 persons, scattered over Turkey and Austria. In 1862 the matter was brought before the High Court of Bombay, and in September the Chief Justice decided that, as Gregorio died intestate, and had Indian domicile, his property should be distributed amongst the next of kin according to the ordinary statute of distributions ; that Mighardich, the next of kin, having died childless and intestate, his property devolved on his sister, Arzumi, his next of kin, and thence on her five children, among whose descendants it should now be distributed, although they had failed to establish a clear legal claim. The property, amounting in the aggregate to 22,298/., was accordingly divided into five shares, three of which, viz., 13,332/., were, on 10th November 16148. C 10 1863 (Letters to Foreign Office, dated 27th February and 10th November 1863), sent, through the Foreign Office, to the Turkish Government, for distribution, the Porte giving an acquittance for the same, and indemnifying, in the event of any person making out a better claim hereafter. This same letter to the Foreign Office inquired whether the Austrian Government were willing to undertake the distribution of the remaining two fifths (8,959/.) among Austrian subjects, and give a similar acquittance; the Austrian Government demurred to the indemnity clause, and this was waived, in consideration of an Austrian law by which a rightful heir can, within thirty years, recover from the parties to whom property has been wrongly paid (see Letter to Foreign Office, dated 19th February 1864), and the Bombay Government were ordered to remit the Austrian shares to this country. The Austrian Government frequently applied for payment of their two shares, but, before the money was remitted from Bombay, other applicants appeared, not only for the remaining two fifths, but also for the three fifths paid the Porte for distribution. (See Enclosures to Political Letter from Bombay, dated 27th July (No. 37) 1869.) One of these claimants is the Archbishop and Abbot General, or Superior, of the Mechitarist Order of St. Lazare at Venice, who claims under the will of " Sukias," the monk of that order already referred to, who, by will, bequeathed his share to the Order. ( See Enclosures to Political Letters from Bombay, dated 31st May (No. 24) 1865), and 16th January (No. 2) 1869.) A copy of the will of " Sukias," made at Calcutta in 1789, and forwarded to Venice by one of his executors in the following year, is put in, but the original will cannot be traced at Calcutta. Some other Armenians, representing themselves to be descendants of " Miriam," sister and next of kin of Coja Cazar Gregorio, also claim the whole estate. On the 2nd May 1870, Mr. T. K. Lynch, the Persian Consul-General, made an application, on behalf of the Shah of Persia, for the whole of Coja Cazar Gregorio's estate, oh the ground that Gregorio was a Persian subject without Indian domicile, dying when on his way to Persia, and that " every Government " is entitled to the intestate estates of their subjects deceased, in whatever " country they may have died." Mr. Lynch was told, in reply, by letter dated 27th May 1870, that a copy of his communication had been forwarded to the Government of Bombay, who alone could deal with it. On 25th October 1873, the Chevalier Francis de Rosaz, " Advocate of the Court of Paris," forwarded two memorials, one from the Shah of Persia, the other from the Mechitarist Order of St. Lazare of Venice, supported by documentary evidence. (See Letter to Chevalier de Rosaz, dated 1st November 1873.) The memorials and accom paniments were forwarded to Bombay, and, in reply, that Government (Political Letter from Bombay, dated 18th May (No. 20) 1874) states that the documents forwarded by the Chevalier de Rosaz, were unauthenticated and informal, and they think his clients' interests prejudiced by sending papers which it is not in accordance with the practice of the Court to receive. The letter adds that the claims by descent must be gone into first, and, in the event of those parties failing to establish their title, then that of the Shah of Persia and any other applications will be considered by the Law Officers. The Home correspondence on this subject is in the Administrator General's Department, that with Bombay (as the Administrator General's Department does not send Despatches to India) is in the Political Branch of the India Office. In 1774, after futile attempts at other ports of Borneo in 1772, the Company succeeded in forming a settlement at Balambangan, a small island lying off the northern extremity of Borneo. In the following year it was attacked by the Sooloos, and abandoned. In 1803 it was re-established, but, not answering the expectations formed of it, was definitively resigned in the same year. This terminates the connexion (which, as previously stated, commenced in 1700) of the East India Company with Borneo, as landowners in that island In 1859 (see Political Despatch to India, 12th May (No. 22) 1859) a proposal was made and afterwards withdrawn, for an Indian convict station in north-east Borneo In 1872 (Political Despatch to India, dated 26th March (No. 32) 1872, the Italian Government wished to establish a penal settlement in the same part of the island By Foreign Office Letter, dated 22nd May 1872, it was intimated that this proposai of the Italian Government was also abandoned. 11 In October 1778, Pondicherry was taken from the French. This, with the l778- previous capture of several French factories and settlements by the Company's forces in Bengal, annihilated the power of France in the East Indies. In 1780, Hyder Ali, who had raised himself from the position of a common i78°- sepoy to the rank of one of the most formidable Native Princes, overran the Carnatic, defeated the British, and captured Arcot. On 1st July 1781, the great 1781 battle between Hyder Ali and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote, took place, in which the former was defeated, and on the 27th of August following Hyder Ali again suffered defeat. A third and a fourth battle were fought with the same result. In 1782, the final overthrow and death of Hyder Ali took place. He was l782, succeeded by his son, Tippoo Saib. On the 17th May of this year, peace was concluded with the Mahrattas, by the Treaty of Salbye (Aitchison, vol. 3., p. 49), through the mediation of Madajee Scindia. In the following year, Canara, a l783, possession of Tippoo Saib, was invaded by the British, under General Matthews. In this year also Bednore was besieged and taken by Tippoo Saib. In 1784, Mr. Pitt's India Bill (Act XXIV., Geo. III., cap. 25) passed. It 1784. established the Board of Control, consisting of six members of the Privy Council, appointed by the King, two of the principal Secretaries of State being always members. In 1785, Warren Hastings resigned the office of Governor General of India, and 1785. Lord Cornwallis was appointed his successor. On 11th April 1786, Mr. Burke presented nine articles of impeachment against 1786. Warren Hastings. Much of the Parliamentary Session in England was taken up in discussing the propriety of permitting the impeachment of the late Viceroy ; this being conceded, Mr. Burke commenced the impeachment before the Upper House in the usual form. On 13th February 1788, the trial of Warren Hastings began in Westminster 1788. Hall, ft lasted seven years and three months, and ended in his acquittal. At Poona, on the 1st June 1790, a tripartite Treaty (see 17 and 18, Range 1, of 1790- Board's papers in basement, Proceedings from 1784 to 1790, with Index) was concluded against Tippoo Saib by the English, the Peishwa, and the Nizam. — (Aitchison, vol. 3, p. 58.) This year, by Military Despatch to Bengal, dated 4th August 1791, the Court 1791. of Directors repeated, in the case of the loans given by Europeans to the King of Oude, the rule previously laid down, and which they and the Secretary of State have always acted upon, that Government will never enforce payment of loans made by Europeans to Natives. — (See Memoranda by Mr. J. S. Mill and Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Kaye, with Home Letter dated 18th December (466) 1863, case of Messrs. William Palmer & Co., Hyderabad ; Extracts from Despatches on this point, from 1787 to 1842, are appended to the above Draft Letter ; see also Sir J. Kaye's Memoranda, with Home Letters, dated 30th July (1210) 1869, and 14th July (1376) 1870). In 1792, the Marquis of Cornwallis concluded a Treaty (Aitchison, vol. 5, p. 145) 1792. with Tippoo Saib, by which the latter agreed to cede one half of his dominions to the English, to pay three crores and 30 lacs of sicca rupees, about 3,300,000/., and to give up his sons as hostages for the due performance of the Treaty. In the same year, Lord Cornwallis also concluded a Treaty (Aitchison, vol. 5, p. 236) with the Nabob of the Carnatic. On 12th August 1793, Lord Cornwallis carried into effect his celebrated 1793. measure of the "Permanent Revenue Settlement." Under this arrangement, the Zemindar pays a fixed sum down to Government, and he levies this from the ryots of the country and collects it by his own agents. The principle of the Zemindary Settlement is a share of the rent of the land with Government. In the Ryotwar system the collections are made by officers of Government ; every ryot is understood to make his bargain with Government without the intervention of any middle-man. Sir Thomas Munro's principle was to assess each acre of the land separately; the ryot -was then charged so much for the land which he cultivated. The Village Settlement, which principally obtains in Bombay, consists in settling with the village how much it should collectively pay. The officers of Government do not go into detail to col'ect from each ryot, they only collect from 12 each village the sum so assessed upon the particular village, according to the best estimate that can be made, and that assessment is generally regulated with some person of authority in the village, whom the villagers themselves put forward, and who goes by different names in different parts of India, viz., Zemindar, Patel, Malik, and Mocuddum. On 28th October 1793, Sir John Shore entered upon the duties of Governor General as successor to Lord Cornwallis, and Major-General Sir Robert Aber crombie assumed the office of Commander-in-Chief under the Court's appointment of September 1792. At this period also, Civil and Criminal Courts were esta blished in India, and measures adopted for improving the police of Calcutta. From a passage (page 389, vol. 2) in a work entitled "Keppel's Expedition to Borneo," it would seem that a formal cession of the northern part of the island was made to the Company by the Sultan of Sooloo in 1793. No information on this point is traceable on the records of Government, nor does it appear that the rights acquired were ever realized or formally resigned. — (India Foreign Letter, 10th May (95) 1872.) In this year ( 1793), Lord Macartney went on an embassy to China. 1794. In 1794, the sons of Tippoo Saib were restored to liberty. During this year the death of the accomplished scholar Sir William Jones took place. In 1794 also, Fyz-oollah Khan, the Rohilla Chief with whom a treaty was made by the Vizier of Oude in 1774 (Aitchison, vol. 2, pp. 11 and 14), under which the country of Rampore and other districts were granted to him in military tenure, died. Mahomed Ali succeeded, but a younger brother, Gholam Mahomed Khan, usurped the government, and murdered Mahomed Ali. This event led to the Rohilla war, in support of the Vizier's rights and authority. Gholam Mahomed's forces were defeated, and an agreement was subsequently entered into with the Rohillas (Aitchison, vol. 2, pp. 15 to 23), under the Company's guarantee, by which. the Vizier granted to the Nabob Ahmed Ali Khan, son of Mahomed Ali, a jagheer in Rampore of the value of ten lacs of rupees per annum, and the Nabob agreed to pay to the Company, for the support of" Gholam Mahomed, Rs. 1,500 per month out of the produce of the jagheer. 1795. In 1795, Captain Symes was deputed to the King of Ava, and effected a treaty (Aitchison, vol. 1, p. 205), from which it was anticipated that much advantage would result in our commercial intercourse with the Burmese Empire. On 1st August 1795, an expedition was fitted out by Lord Hobart, Governor 1796. of Madras, to wrest Ceylon from the Dutch. On 16th February 1796, the army of Colombo capitulated, and Ceylon was then placed under the political control of the Governor of Madras. 1797. In 1797, the Earl of Mornington (afterwards Marquis Wellesley) was appointed Governor General of India, and Lord Clive (afterwards Earl Powis) was appointed Governor of Madras. It having been found that the practice of British subjects lending money to the Native Princes and Chiefs was productive of much mischief, and that the Company could not effectually prevent it, an Act, 37 George III., cap. 142, sec. 28, was passed, rendering any British subject who, directly or indirectly, lends money to a Native Prince without the consent of the Court of Directors, the Governor General, or the Governor of a Presidency, liable to a prosecution for misdemeanour. ^gg. In 1799, Tippoo Saib again allied himself with the French. On 22nd February, war was declared against him, and a battle ensued on 27th March, at Malavili' near Seringapatam, at which he was defeated. On 4th April, the British army' under the command of Generals Harris and Baird, who were ably assisted by ColonerWellesley, laid siege to Seringapatam, which was taken by storm on the 4th May, when Tippoo was slain, and the contest thus brought to a close • Tippoo's vast treasures and territories were divided among the conquerors and the members of his family were removed to Vellore. The conduct of these measures was entrusted to Colonel Wellesley. On the 13th July 1799, the partition Treaty of Mysore was ratified.— (Aitchison, vol. 5, pp. 55, 68.) By this engagement, part of Mysore was ceded to the Company, part to the Nizam, and part made over to the Maharajah Kistnah Bahadoor, then a child, descended from the ancient Hindoo sovereigns of Mysore. 13 By Article 1 of the subsidiary Treaty with Mysore (Aitchison, vol. 5, p. 158), the Maharajah pays an annual tribute of seven lacs of star pagodas, 24^ lacs of rupees, or 24,500/., in return for the military force maintained for the protection of his State. In consequence of abuses of liberty of the Press in India, certain regulations were issued by the Bengal Government this year, 1799 ; on 19th August 1818, some more were promulgated. (Bengal Public Letter, dated 1st October 1818.) — (For Papers as to enforcement of these regulations, under Act 53 George HI., cap. 155, sec. 36, in the case of Mr. James Silk Buckingham, editor of the "Calcutta Journal," for libels, extending from 1819 to 1823, see Board's Papers in the basement, Memorandum in Political Department, and Bengal Public Letter, 17th October 1820.) By a Treaty dated the 13th May 1800 (Aitchison, vol. 6, p. 238), the Nawab of 1800. Surat surrendered the city of Surat to the Company, in consideration of a yearly payment of a lac of rupees, and one fifth of the clear revenue, after deducting all expenses. On the 24th March 1818 (Aitchison, vol. 6, p. 241), these payments were, by treaty, commuted for 1^ lacs per annum. Meer Jaffer, the last male recipient of an allowance from the revenues of Surat, died 21st August 1863. In 1800, an Act, 39 & 40 Geo. 3, cap. 79, was passed, section 21 of which constituted the Ecclesiastical Registrars of the High Courts at the several Presi dencies administrators of all intestate estates in those Presidencies and their dependencies. The provisions of this Act were modified in 1815 by Act 55 Geo. 3, cap. 84. At the time of its introduction into Madras in 1800, Mr. Gilbert Ricketts, then Ecclesiastical Registrar of the High Court, was con tinued in his office, and was entrusted with the administration of intestate estates in the Presidency. In 1817 suspicions arose against this officer, who died in solvent on December 4th of that year, when it was discovered that he had mis appropriated close upon 50,000/. A Committee of the House of Commons reported on this case (Parliamentary Returns (Commons) 258 of 1829, and 623 of 1830), and eventually, in 1830, in accordance with the terms of Act 2, Geo. 4, and 1 Will. 4, cap. 75, the sufferers were reimbursed from the revenues of India. In 1841, Sir Edward Ryan, then Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta, appointed Sir Thomas Turton to be Ecclesiastical Registrar of that Court, and, therefore, ipso facto Administrator of Intestate Estates in the Presidency of Bengal, his five per cent, commission on all estates passing through his hands giving him an income of about 5,000/. a year. In 1848, when he resigned his post, it was discovered that in the seven years of his occupancy he had mis appropriated a sum of nearly 80,000/. This involved another Special Committee of the House of Commons (Parliamentary Return (Commons), 440 of 1850, who suggested that the sufferers should be repaid from the unclaimed estates, i.e., those that had remained unclaimed in the hands of Government for fifteen years • if persons (see Act 2 of 1874, section 62,) afterwards made good a claim to the estates they would have them. This reimbursement was effected under Acts 5 and 13 of 1851. Sir Thomas Turton having died insolvent, and Government having failed to recover from his sureties.— (See Judicial Despatches to India dated 3rd July (No. 13) 1850, 2nd July (No. 11) 1851, Public Despatch to India dated 3rd September (No. 22) 1851.) In consequence of these scandals, an Administrator General to each Presidency was appointed by Act 7 of 1849, and rules for their guidance were laid down by Judicial Despatch to India, dated 16th October (No. 19) 1850. The following India Acts relate to the duties of the Administrators General,— 2 of 1850 8 of 1855, 26 of 1860, 24 of 1867, and 2 of 1874. The Administrator General of Bengal receives a commission of three per cent, on estates passing through his hands, the Administrators General of Madras and Bombay five per cent (see section 52 of Act 2 of 1874). Act 7 of 1848, sees. 11 to 18, provides that sche dules of estates administered by the Administrators General be prepared up to 31st December and 30th June each year, be audited, and be published in the " Calcutta Gazette," then forwarded to England and published in the " London Gazette." Para. 9 of Judicial Despatch to India, dated 16th October (No. 19) 1850, and para. 4 of Public Despatch to India, dated 19th November (No 33) 1851, stated that, instead of inserting the schedules in the " London Gazette " which involved unnecessary expense, the Court preferred to advertise the arrival of the schedules, and that they were open to inspection at the India- House 16148 D 14 Under Act 2 of 1874, section 44, discretion is vested in the Secretary of State to determine whether or no the schedules should be inserted in the " London Gazette " and " other leading newspapers." Schedules are filed in the Admini strator General's Department, India Office, Bengal from 1815, Madras, 1801, Bombay, 1818, and notice of their arrival is usually advertised in the " London Gazette " and the " Times." The 1849 Act was found not to have disposed of all the malpractices connected with the official administration of estates in India, for when Mr. William Ambrose Serle, formerly Ecclesiastical Registrar at Madras, and afterwards Administrator General and Official Trustee to that Presidency, came home on furlough in 1855, it was found that there were irregularities in his accounts, and at his death on December 24th, 1860, it transpired that he had embezzled nearly 5,000/. ; of this about 4,000/. was repaid by Government to the sufferers, Mr. Serle having died insolvent, and the residue, which was entrusted to Mr. Serle in his private capacity, was not repaid. A Mrs. Margaret Fitzgerald, for whom Mr. Serle was appointed official trustee in 1845, recovered nearly 3,000/. (For these transactions, see Public Despatches to Madras, dated 18th April (No. 21), 25th July (No. 36) 1855, 11th August (No. 38) 1858, 9th June (No. 23) and 27th October (No. 50) 1859, also Financial Despatches to Madras, dated 24th December (No. 96) 1863, 9th June (No. 46) 1866, and 8th November (No. 104) 1867. By India Public Despatch, dated 20th May (No. 11) 1851, an official Agent was appointed in England in supersession of the firm of lawyers, Messrs. Brundrett, at that time London agents of the Indian Administrators General. Mr. Francis Clark, of the Military Department, East India House, was the first official Agent. In 1860 he retired, and was succeeded by Mr. Marmaduke Hornidge, of the Secretary's Office. On Mr. Hornidge's retirement in 1874, the post was conferred on Mr. William Macpherson, the newly appointed legal adviser to the Secretary of State in Council. Para. 3 of Public Despatch to Madras, dated 23rd March (No. 12) 1853, enunciated that the Administrators General were sufficiently paid by their commission of three per cent, to give advice, &c, to persons interested applying to them for advice and instructions, and that they must give them information, and not put them to unnecessary trouble and expense by referring them to private agents, and to make this injunction still more explicit, Public Despatch to Madras, dated 8th February (No. 3) 1854 ruled that the official agent be sole agent of the Administrator General. Public Despatch to Madras, dated 23rd July (No. 28) 1856, orders that the account of estates rendered by the Administrator General to the parties interested are only to be charged for at the rate of one anna per folio of 90 words. Certificates of baptisms, burials, and deaths are received at the India office, and the Indexes are in No. 93, ground floor — Bengal commence 1713, Madras 1698, Bombay 1709; those for Fort Marlborough, St. Helena, and Prince of Wales' Island were sent for a few years, from 1760, 1767, and 1805 respectively. Copies of wills, certified by the Registrars of the High Court at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay respectively are also in the Administrator General's Department, India Office, duly indexed ; India Wills from 1780, Madras 1778, Bombay 1783, Prince of Wales' Island (for a short time only) from 1806. Fixed fees have always been charged for searches for, or copies of, wills and certificates. By a Resolution of Council, 21st July 1862, a general search costs 2s. 6d., special search, Is., copy of certificate, 10*., copy of will, not exceeding 600 words, ids., 2s. Qd. for every extra 150 words. 1801. In 1801, a Committee, Messrs. Pattle, Rocke, and Hayes, was ordered to examine and report on the Nizamut accounts. Bengal Political Proceedings, 15th May (No. 39) 1806, contain the Report of this Committee, which is referred to in the Nawab Nazim's Green Book published in 1870. 1802 In July 1802, Lord Castlereagh was appointed President of the Board of Control. In 1802, also, the Mahratta Country was invaded by the English, in order to check the advance of the French. On 20th April, Arthur Wellesley was raised to the rank of Major-General, and appointed to the Advance Corps of the Madras Army. By a Letter from the English to the Danish East India Company, dated 4th Octo ber 1802, compliance was accorded to the request of the latter, made in 1781, for 15 permission to import annually 200 chests of opium and 1,200 maunds of saltpetre. At the close of the hostilities with Denmark, the Danish Company applied for renewal of this privilege, but, not being under treaty, it was refused. — ( Vide para. 26 of Bengal Foreign Letter, 7th December 1816. See Collection of India Board's Political and Secret Memoranda in the basement of the India Office ; Index in Record Department.) In 1803, the Fortress of Ahmednuggur, one of the strongest in India, was taken 1803. by assault under Wellesley. On 24th September, the battle of Assaye was fought, in which Wellesley entirely routed the Mahrattas. This victory virtually decided the Mahratta campaign. The battle of Argaum was afterwards fought, in which the English were again victorious, and the Mahrattas totally defeated. This year (see India Foreign Letter, 3rd February 1803), all the Danish ships and property captured in the war were restored. In 1805, the siege of Bhurtpore was raised, and the third attempt to carry it by 1805. assault was unsuccessful. Ultimately Lord Lake succeeded in effecting terms with the Rajah of Bhurtpore. During this year, Sir Arthur Wellesley returned to England. The Marquis Cornwallis, who had been re-appointed Governor General and Commander-in-Chief, arrived in India, and entered on his government on 31st July 1805. His Lordship's health suddenly gave way, and he died on the 5th October following. On the' 10th July 1806, the sons of Tippoo Saib, who on the death of their 1806. father had been placed at Vellore with a provision from Government of not less than 24,000/. a year, instigated a revolt, and massacred the European troops (Aitchison's Treaties, vol. 5, p. 57). For this, the family was removed to Russa- puglah, a suburb of Calcutta, where a school was founded for the, education and training of the younger members. — (See Board's Memoranda in basement, 48 and 49, attributing the massacre to a change made by the Company in the sepoys' turbans.) In 1807, Lord Minto was appointed Governor General of India. 1807. In 1811 the Dutch were driven out of Java. — (Nos. 39 to 47, Range 1, isn. Board's Papers in the basement contains a narrative of the Company's relations with Java.) In 1813, the Charter of the East India Company was renewed under certain 1813. restrictions, the trade with India was thrown open to public enterprise, that with China being alone exclusively preserved to the Company. On 4th October 1813, the Marquis of Hastings, then Earl of Moira, succeeded the Earl of Minto as Governor General of India. On 1st November 1814, the British Government declared war against the State 1814. of Nepal. The campaign was concluded on 2nd December 1815, but, in con- isi5. sequence of an infraction of the treaty by the Nepalese, hostilities were resumed, and after several contests the former treaty was ratified on the 15th March 1816. By an agreement concluded with the minor Chiefs of Ceylon, dated 2nd March 1815 (Aitchison, vol. 5, p. 444), the King of Ceylon was deposed, on account of his inhuman cruelties, and the island became a dependency of the British Crown, Sir Robert Brownrigg being the first Governor (see Sir Emerson Tennent's Ceylon, vol. 2, pp. 87 to 96). By a salt, opium, and saltpetre convention signed in London on the 7th March 1815, the French, for a consideration of four lacs of sicca rupees per annum, 46,400/. (see India Revenue and Finance printed account), agreed not to manufacture salt within the French possessions in India. They were to be supplied with salt for domestic consumption at a fair price, based on an average of three years. 300 chests of opium per annum might be imported by them, and in the event of any restrictions being subsequently placed on saltpetre, they might import it to the extent of 18,000 maunds a year (State Papers, 1814-15, page 219). During the operations against Nepal, the conduct of the Court of Poona towards the Guicowar demanded the interposition of the British Government. Trimbukjee Anglia, a menial servant of the Peishwa, who had ingratiated himself into his master's favour, became in effect prime minister, although Sedasheo Munkaseer held the appointment. Repeated infractions of the Treaty of Bassein took place, while the Company stood in the character of arbitrator between the Courts of Poona and Baroda. The farm of Ahmedabad had been granted with other lands on a ten years' lease from the Peishwa to the Guicowar. Its renewal was an important matter with the latter. His Highness 16 deputed Gungadhur Shastree to Poona to accomplish this and other objects. The evasion the envoy encountered determined him to return to Baroda, and to leave the points to be settled by the British Government. At the urgent desire, however, of the Peishwa, Gungadhur was induced to relinquish this intention.* After visiting the temple, little thinking of the fate that awaited him, he was proceeding homewards, when he was fiercely attacked by five armed men, and literally cut to pieces. On this coming to the knowledge of Mr. Elphinstone, the Resident, he demanded of the Peishwa that immediate measures should be taken for apprehending Trimbukjee. After some difficulty he was delivered up and confined in the fort of Tannah, whence he escaped in December 1816. It was during this year, 1815, that measures were taken for exterminating the Pindarrees. (See Parliamentary Return (Commons), 27th May (370) 1818.) Lord Amherst's embassy to China left Spithead, 8th February 1816, on board His Majesty's ship " Alceste." The Emperor of China would not receive them, because the Envoy refused to prostrate himself before a vacant throne. See a diverting letter from the Emperor of China to the Prince Regent on this point, dated 11th September 1816. — (No. 11, Range 1 of Board's Papers in the basement. For Memorandum of intercourse of Indian Government with China, see Nos. 25, 26, 27 (with Index) of Board's Papers, Range 1 in basement.) On the 19th August 1816, Java was ceded by treaty to the Dutch. — (India Foreign Letter, 7th December 1816, paras. 40 to 49 and 52 to 56.) By Article 16 of Treaty with Netherlands Government signed at* London, 17th March 1824 (State Papers, 1823-24, pp. 202, 203, the Dutch Government had to pay 100,000/. before the expiration of the year 1825 on account of the expenses attendant on the transfer of territory to them. By Political Despatch to Madras, dated 20th November 1816, the Court of Directors confirmed the instrument dated 23rd July 1816, conferring special privileges on Messrs. W. Palmer & Co., Hyderabad bankers. Finding that the firm were engaging in pecuniary transactions with the Nizam, the Court, by Political Despatch to India, dated 24th May 1820, cancelled the concession. When the firm afterwards appealed to the Court to obtain payment of sums due to them by the Nizam, the Court, by Political Despatch to India dated 7th Sep tember (2) 1836, reiterated by Despatch 28th July (15) 1837, directed the Resi dent to submit to the Nizam the justice and propriety of fulfilling his obligations, but they would not depart from their rule never to allow interference in pecuniary transactions between Europeans and Native Princes. — (See Briggs's " The Nizam," vol. 2, p. 164, also 400 of Board's Political and Secret Memoranda, No. 74 of Range K, in the basement of the India Office.) 1817. On 21st December 1817, Sir Thomas Hislop defeated Holkar at the battle of Mehidpore. Peace was concluded with him the following year. For some considerable time past the conduct of Bajee Rao, the Peishwa, had excited grave suspicion. His treachery at length became apparent. It was dis covered that he was in communication with Appa Sahib (who was suspected of being concerned in the murder of Bala Sahib, the late Rajah of Nagpore), between whom a combined movement was concerted against the British. The Peishwa took flight, and it was at this period that the gallant affair at Corygaum took place under Captain Staunton. This Officer, with a force of only 600 men and two six-pounders, and about 300 auxiliary horse, marched from the Deccan to Poonah and met the whole of the Peishwa's army, amounting to 20,000 horse and several thousand infantry. Captain Staunton immediately moved on the village of Corygaum, when he was attacked by three divisions of the Peishwa's choicest infantry, supported by immense bodies of horse and two pieces of artillery. The struggle was very severe, and the enemy at last abandoned the village. Captain Staunton brought in nearly the whole oi the wounded, together with the guns and colours of his regiment. For his gallant conduct a special grant of 500/. a year was conferred upon him by the Company. After this defeat the Peishwa continued his flight to the southward, and ultimately got away to Sholapoor. A junction was now effected between Generals Smith and Pritzler. The fortress of Sattara was reduced after the opening of the mortar batteries, when Mr. Elphinstone * It has been stated that so great was the envoy's reluctance to persevere in his mission, that he only did so under an express promise of protection from the British Government. 17 raised the Rajah of Sattara's flag with the intention of restoring the Rajah's authority. General Smith continued the pursuit, and fell in with the Peishwa's force at Ashtoor, which he completely defeated on 19th February. The Rajah of Sattara and his family were brought into camp, and re-established by Mr. Elphinstone at their capital. The Peishwa ultimately yielded to Sir John Malcolm. On the 16th of May 1818, the Peishwa sent to Sir John Malcolm, then at 1818. Mhow, requesting a personal interview. On the 31st the interview took place, and on the 3rd June a pension of not less than 8 lacs of rupees per annum was assigned to Bajee Rao for the maintenance of himself and his family, on condition that he resigned for himself and successors all right and title to the Government of Poonah. (Vide Aitchison's Treaties, p. 90, vol. 3, and India Secret Pro ceedings, 12th June (12), 26th June (74), and 24th July (22) 1818.) He died on the 28th January 1851. His adopted son, Dhondoo Punt, the notorious Nana Sahib, was the author of the Cawnpore massacre during the mutiny of 1857. The Bengal Government, by Foreign Letter, dated 4th January 1817, pointed 1819. out that the Portuguese were endeavouring to export opium to China from Goa, and expressed a wish that the Court of Directors would induce the British Government to conclude a Treaty with Portugal forbidding such exportation. The Court, by Bengal Separate Department of Opium Despatch, dated 27th January 1819, replied that they believed Bengal opium to be the best in the world, that it would be useless to attempt to conclude a Treaty, and that the only way to defy competition was to sell a better article at a lower price than their commercial rivals. (See letter from the Foreign Office, dated 2nd May 1873, forwarding a letter from Messrs. H. B. Sleeman & Co., East India Merchants, Leadenhall Street, inquiring whether any such Treaty exists). A statistical account of Portuguese India, together with all Treaties between Great Britain and Portugal, from 1661 to 1850, forms part of Bombay Selection, No. 10, new series. In 1822, the Marquis of Hastings quitted Calcutta, and Mr. Canning was 1822. nominated Governor General of India. Shortly after his nomination, however, the death of the Marquis of Londonderry took place, and Mr. Canning was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; he consequently resigned into the hands of the Court of Directors the appointment of Governor General of India. Lord Amherst was then appointed, and assumed the office of Governor General on 1st August 1823. A Treaty, signed at London on the 17th March 1824, was 1823. concluded with the Netherlands Government, by which the island of Sumatra 1824. was ceded to Holland, and Malacca, &c, to England ;* the contracting parties further agreed to repress piracy and to place their respective subjects in the Eastern Archipelago, India, and Ceylon on the footing of " the most favoured nation." (State Papers, 1823-24, pp. 194 to 203.) Up to the date of the transfer of the Straits Settlements to the Colonial Office, 1st April 1867, there is a quantity of correspondence, India and Home, on the subject of Dutch proceedings in Eastern Seas. — (See, inter alia, Board's Papers in basement, 13 and 14 of Range J.) In 1824, the first Burmese war took place, and on the 11th May the city of Rangoon surrendered to the British troops. It was not, however, until 25th December 1825 that the Burmese were totally defeated. — (State Papers, vol. 11, 1825. pp. 203 and 849, and vol. 12, p. 422.) From the year 1825 to the present time numerous applications have been made, both here and in India, from parties representing themselves to be next of kin to a certain Jean Claude Francois Bonnet, born on August 27th, 1715, at Fontenis, a village near Besancon, Franche Comte, where his ancestors were manufacturers of saltpetre and dealers in wood. This person went to India, and is stated by several foreign newspapers to have acquired a large fortune there as commander or owner of privateers. He was king-elect of Madagascar, and is represented to have died, without issue and intestate, either in that island in 1794, or at Pondi cherry (where he was Governor and Commandant) between 1789 and 1793, inclusive, leaving in one of the Company's treasuries in India or England, a sum • See an excellent printed Memorandum from the Foreign Office, with Home Letter, 30th August (No. 1775) 1872. 16148. E 18 of 3,000,000/. either in his own name or in that of Courtenay, derived from Bonnet. In 1829 the Duke of Wellington enclosed some letters to the Board of Control on the subject, and on February 16th, 1830, a circular Despatch was addressed to the three Presidencies, in the Public Department. The Madras Government seem, by Public Letter dated 3rd January 1832, to have once got on a wrong scent, but no copy of a burial certificate, will, or deposit of money has ever been traced either in England or India, and, consequently, a stereotyped answer is sent to applicants, that " all endeavours to obtain information respecting M. Bonnet " have proved fruitless. The last communication from India on the subject is Financial Letter, dated 12th December (No. 172) 1857. In the record Department of the India Office there is a manuscript book (trans ferred on July 9th, 1874, from the Political Department) giving the correspondence on this subject from 1825 to 1834. A precis in the Administrator General's Department, in which branch all the Home correspondence on the subject has been conducted, gives all particulars of the case from 1857 to 1871. A certain Miss Bonnet and her brother have received permission to search, without fee, all the documents in this Office and the Foreign Office bearing on estates and deposits. An English estate of the name of Bonnet, in which a Miss Jane Bonnet is interested, must not be con founded with the French estate. This latter and that of Coja Cazar Gregorio, already referred to, are the most troublesome cases in the Administrator General's Department. 1826. In 1826, Arracan and Tenasserim were ceded to the Company, by treaty dated 24th February 1826 (Aitchison, vol. 1, p. 213.) During January 1826, Bhurtpore was successfully besieged, and Doorjun Sal taken prisoner. At this period the death of Sir Thomas Munro took place. 1827 In January 1827, the Right Hon. S. P. Lushington was appointed Governor of Madras. During this month, also, Sir John Malcolm was nominated Governor of Bombay, in succession to the Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 1828. In February 1828, Lord William Bentinck proceeded to India as Governor General, in succession to Lord Amherst. 1829. In 1829, the British Government abolished the rite of Suttee. Kurnaul, in the Punjab, lapsed. (See Bengal Political Letter, dated 30th October 1829, para. 44.) In this year, too, the naval force of the East Indies, which was constituted under Royal Charter in the reigns of Charles II. and James II., and designated the " Bombay Marine," was styled the " Indian Navy," and was called by that name till, in November 1862, it was abolished as a war service, and reverted to its ancient name of the " Bombay Marine." Up to the date of its abolition the service, a popular and well paid one, was supported entirely by the Company. Since then, India contributes 70,000/. per annum towards the cost of the Royal Navy vessels of the Indian squadron, three of which are always in the Persian Gulf, and three in the Bay of Bengal and elsewhere. (Papers in Marine Department.) I83i. In 1831, under Article 4 of the Subsidiary Treaty with Mysore (Aitchison, vol. 5, p. 158), the Governor General, Lord Wm. Bentinck, finding that the financial affairs of the State were much involved, took the administration out of the Maharajah's hands, and vested it in the Mysore Commission (Political Despatch to Madras, dated 6th March 1832), a provision being made for His Highness under Article 5 of the Treaty. The Maharajah frequently applied to be restored to' power, but without success. He died on the 27th March 1868 and his adopted son succeeded him. (Political Despatch to India, 2nd Julv (No. 11) 1868.) J 1833. In May 1833, Lord William Bentinck was appointed Commander-in-Chief in India, this being the third instance in which the posts of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief were united in the same individual, — Lord Cornwallis in 1786, Lord Hastings in 1813, and Lord William Bentinck in 1833. On 28th August 1833, a Bill was passed requiring the Company to surrender their trade monopoly, territorial management being alone reserved to them. 1834. jn 1834, the deposal of the Rajah of Coorg took place, the country was annexed and the Ex-Rajah and bis family pensioned and removed to Benares. (He died in England in 1859.) 19 i In this year (1834), an arrangement was made under which India pays one third the cost of the diplomatic service in China. This is now (1874) being revised. In 1834, Natives were first admitted to magisterial office. In 1834, in view of Colonel Chesney's approaching Euphrates Expedition, a ' firman was obtained from the Turkish Government, dated 29th December 1834 ; (Aitchison, vol. 7, p. 189), authorizing two British vessels to navigate the Euphrates and Tigris. In 1862, the Euphrates and Tigris Company obtained \ permission from the Turkish Government to put two vessels on the rivers, and \ these and the Government steamer, the "Comet," are now there. — (Foreign ' Office Letter, dajed 24th July 1869, states that the Porte gave permission for another vessel to replace the "Comet." See Home Letter dated 5th August j; (No. 1215) 1869, and a number of Memoranda, with Mr. Lynch's Letter of ] 9th April 1874.) (Q ^ ~A^jc 11, / Cr^u^^y t~^ In 1835, Lord Auckland was appointed Governor General of India. / 1835. This year, 1835, the Persian Mission was placed under the Foreign Office, theA*^/a^.l.^/^//tj57 > Government of India paying 12.000/. a year towards the expenses of the Mission. * ' (See Secret Despatch of 1835.) In November 1838, the Mission was transferred ^ ^-^u ' .yu^Jj l0 to the India Office. In 1859 (Secret Letter to Foreign Office, 1st November 1859) Ify.^, d\^^j a ') it was retransferred, on the old terms, to the Foreign Office. #t^ / Dv lodia Secret Letters 33, 40, and 58 of 1854. In 1849, Administrators General *-~ cy^frwere appointed in each Presidency in India (see Narrative under year 1800). i t ^¦^¦^8*0_ "l~^ Qn 2nd July 1850, Sir Charles Napier, in consequence of a censure from i -/"wi/^. Lord Dalhousie (India Foreign Selection, No. 3, 1853), resigned his post of ' A Commander-in-Chief in India. On 15th December he gave a farewell address to his troops, and arrived in England in the following March. 1851. In 1851 and 1852 (see Board of Control's Letters bound up in Political Depart ment), a correspondence took place between the India House, the Board of Control, and the Foreign Office, as to the expediency of cancelling the privileges possessed by the Portuguese at Surat under the firman of 1714. Lord Granville, however, was of opinion that it was useless to broach the subject, unless an equivalent were offered to the Portuguese Government. The matter then remained in abeyance till 1872, when it was reopened by the Governments of Bombay and India, princi pally on the ground of the altered aspect of affairs caused by the opening of the Suez Canal, and the privilege was stopped, pending discussion. The Foreign Office, on writing to the Portuguese Government, received an indignant protest from them. — (See Home Correspondence previously referred to in this Memoran dum under year 1714.) In 1851 a misunderstanding arose with the Burmese, which eventuated in the second Burmese War (the first was in 1824). In this year (1851) an official Agent was first appointed to the Administrators General of India, in lieu of their private Agent (see Narrative under year 1800). 1852. On 4th January 1852, in consequence of the treachery of the Viceroy of Ran goon, an engagement took place, in which 300 of the enemy were killed and the fortifications destroyed. On 5th April, Martaban was stormed, on the 14th April Rangoon, and on the 19th May, Bassein. Pegu, after changing hands two or three times, was, on the 20th December, finally annexed to the British dominions. (India Secret Correspondence, 29th December 1852.) This year (1852) a Wahabee conspiracy was discovered at Patna, correspon dence having been traced between persons in that city and the fanatics in Swat and Sittana. On this, Lord Dalhousie recorded two Minutes, dated the 26th August and 7th September 1852, respectively. These are Enclosures to Bengal Public Letter, dated 4th March (No. 10) 1853, paras. 44 to 47, and Collection to India Political Despatch, dated 7th December (No. 47) 1853, para. 17, given in a Parliamentary Return (Commons) 17th April 1872, 161. Bengal Selection 42 contains a full account of the Wahabee Sect, the trial of Elahi Buksh, &c. See also Bombay Selection 24, p. 428, and Collection 2 to Madras Political Despatch, dated 22nd August (No. 14) 1871. Papers respecting the Wahabees in the Persian Gulf, including a Memorandum by Colonel Lewis Pelly, are Collections 5 and 6 to Bombay Political Despatch, dated 16th. October 23 (No. 31) 1865, and Collections 2 and 3 to India Political Despatch, dated 22nd February (No. 11) 1866. The later Wahabee Papers respecting the trials of Shahdadad Khan and Ameer Ali are in the Judicial Department. In the spring of 1850, Lord Dalhousie ordered the commencement of the Hindostan and Thibet road (No. 6, India Selection, Public Works Department). It began from Kalka, 36 miles from Umballah, was intended to ascend to Simlah, and thence proceed through Thibet, for the purpose of opening trade with that country and South- Western China, projects which had been advocated as far back as 1774, when the Governor General, Mr. Warren Hastings, sent Mr. George Bogle on an expedition, followed by Lieutenant Turner in 1784, and by a Native in 1786, (see Despatch from Court of Directors, April 1786, and Letter to Mr. Saxe Bannister, from Statistical Department, January 31st, 1860). In con sequence of the expense, the Government of India abandoned the road when within 70 miles of completion, and in spite of the Despatches in the Public Works and Political Departments urging its completion, they have persistently declined the task (see Enclosure to India Foreign Letter, dated 23rd January (No. 20) 1874). In January 1853, a revolution occurred in Ava, and the King was defeated by 1853. his younger brother. On 16th April 1853, the first Indian Railway was opened. In 1854 the territories of the Rajah of Nagpore lapsed to the East India 1854. Company. Jhansi lapsed this year, on failure of heirs (India Political Despatch, dated 2nd August (No. 34) 1854, paras. 1 to 3). On the 14th June 1854 (Aitchison, vol. 7, p. 230), the Imaum of Muscat ceded the Kooria Mooria Islands to the Queen (see Political Despatch to Bombay, dated 9th December (No. 42) 1857). The Colonial Office leased them for five years to Mr. John Ord, who imported labourers from Aden to collect the guano. The Arabs were very threatening, and a sloop of war, the " Elphinstone," was sent there in December 1858. The labourers were scandalously treated, and the Government of Bombay insisted that Indian labourers should not go, unless a surgeon and medicines were sent, the ships were not overcrowded, and the men were properly fed. — (See Collection 1 to Political Despatch to Bombay, dated 30th October (No. 52) 1859, replying to a statement that out of a consignment of labourers from Aden, the mortality was at the rate of 85 per cent, per annum.) India Act 19 of 1856 enacts that wherever labourers are ill-treated, a notification in the " Calcutta Gazette " shall declare that emigration to such colony or place shall cease from a day to be specified in such notification. In this year (1854) a Burmese embassy went to Calcutta, taking a Letter and presents to Lord Dalhousie. Next year (1855) a return mission, Envoy Major (afterwards Sir Arthur) Phayre, was despatched to Burmah. By India Public (Educational) Despatch, dated 18th July 1854 (para. 84), the Bible was to be in the Library of Government Schools, and the Masters were at liberty to expound it to the pupils, provided they did so out of school hours.* On 31st March 1855 a treaty was signed with Dost Mahomed of Cabul 1855. (Aitchison, vol. 2, p. 430). On the death of Sevajee in 1855, without male heirs, direct or collateral, the titular dignity of Tanjore became extinct. In this year, (1855), also, Mahomed Ghouse, Nawab of the Carnatic, died with out issue, and as the treaty of 1801 (Aitchison, vol. 1, p. 248,) recognized no hereditary right, it being of a purely personal character with Azeem-ood-Dowlah, the titles, privileges, and immunities of the family were declared to be at an end. In July 1855, Viscount Canning was appointed Governor General. He arrived at Calcutta on 29th February 1856, and was immediately sworn into office. In February 1856 Oude was annexed to the British dominions. The King was 1856. invited to sign a treaty securing to him 120,000/. a year, and jurisdiction within the palace and grounds at Lucknow. This he refused to do, and retired to Calcutta, in June 1856. In October 1859 (Aitchison's Treaties, vol. 2, p. 75) the King accepted a provision of 120,000/. per annum and an estate at Garden Reach, in * Nearly all papers relating to religious instruction in India will be found in the Public Department. 24 the suburbs of Calcutta, which Government purchased for him. On his death the title will cease absolutely, and the pension will be reduced. (See page 5 of Parliamentary Return (Commons), 14th July 1864, 82-1. On the 28th February 1856 Lord Dalhousie recorded his celebrated Farewell Minute. This is given in India Selection (Home Department) -. \, and as a Parliamentary Return, 1856 (Commons), No. 245. 1857. In 1857, Universities were established at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay (vide India Acts 2, 27, and 22 of 1857 respectively). In January 1857, Mr. E. O'Riley, Deputy Commissioner, Tounghoo, proceeded to Karennee, there slaughtered a bullock, and made a contract of friendship with the Chief. In 1868, Major E. B„ Sladen, in the course of his Bhamo expedition, went through a similar ceremony with some Khakhyens. — {See pp. 80 to 85 of Appendix to Report of Bhamo Expedition, Parliamentary Return (Commons), 165 of 1871. In March 1857 the Nawab Nazim of Bengal compromised, for 7,000/., his action versus Mackenzie, Lyall, and Co.— (FVofe Bengal Public (Political) Proceedings, 7th May (116—119) 1857. At the commencement of the year 1857 rumours were afloat as to the dis affected condition of the Bengal Army. A report was circulated among the Native troops that it was the intention of the English Government to Christianize India, that Hindooism was to be over thrown by force, and the Christian religion established. How far the rumour was actually believed, is not satisfactorily known. It was, at all events, made use of as an occasion for revolt. The cartridges served out to the men were pronounced unfit for use, being said to contain ingredients which would for ever destroy the caste of those who employed them. Beef and pork fat were declared to be mixed with them, the first of which was unclean to the Hindoos, and the last to the Mahomedans. On this point, see a foot note by Sir Herbert Edwardes at p. 80, vol. 1, of the " Life of Sir Henry Lawrence," by Mr. Herman Merivale, C.B., and himself. The outbreak at Berhampore took place on the 26th February 1857, and on 31st March the 19th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry was ordered down from Berhampore to Barrackpore, and disbanded. On the 8th May, 85 troopers of the 3rd Bengal Light Native Cavalry were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour, at Meerutj for refusing to receive the cartridges. As they passed their comrades, while being marched off the parade, they flung their boots in their faces, and bitterly reviled them for not attempting a rescue. On the 10th May the Native troops broke out into open mutiny, shot their Officers, (Colonel Finnis, of the 11th Native Infantry, being the first victim,) broke open the jail, liberated their comrades, burned the cantonments, and marched off for Delhi, where they arrived on the 11th May, and were joined by the Native regiments, in spite of the heroic resistance of a few brave Englishmen, and took possession of the imperial city. On the 12th, the King of Delhi was pro claimed by the Mutineers, and on the following day, Europeans to the number of 50, who had concealed themselves at Delhi, were discovered and massacred in the presence of the King. On the 27th, General Anson, the Commander-in-Chief, died of cholera at Kurnaul, and was succeeded by Sir Henry Barnard. On the 30th the mutineers were defeated at the battle of Ghazee-ood-deen-Nuggur. On the 5th June the mutiny at Cawnpore occurred. On the 6th, Nana Sahib at the head of the mutineers returned to Cawnpore, and hoisted two standards' the Hindoo and Mussulman. The Europeans, under Sir Hugh Wheeler, defended themselves for several days, with great determination. On the 13tb, the ladies and children who had taken refuge in the Fort of Jhansi were barbarously murdered (vide India Secret Proceedings, 31st July (No. 179) 1857, also p. 524 of bound-up Secret Letters, October 1857: India Mutiny Papers (printed), 1857, No. 4, p. 121; and " London Gazette," 17th July 1858, p. 3336 ; and " Times " of 11th August 1858, which give a list of the people massacred). On the 26th, the Europeans at Cawnpore became so reduced by casualties and so short of ammunition and provision as to be compelled to surrender to Nana Sahib, on his guarantee of safe escort. In defiance of his promise, he fired on them, sank their boats, and captured the women. 25 On the 4th July the death of Sir Henry Lawrence, " who tried to do his duty," took place at Lucknow, the result of fearful injuries caused by a shell exploding in the Residency during the bombardment by the mutineers, and on the 5th Sir Henry Barnard died of cholera. On the latter day, the garrison fought the Neemuch mutineers. On the 7th July, 163 persons, principally ladies and children, belonging to General Wheeler's force, and 47 from Futtyghur, were seized by the mutineers and confined at Cawnpore, by order of Nana Sahib. On 17th August, General Havelock's force entered Cawnpore. A spectacle of the horrible massacre which had been perpetrated by the fiend, Nana Sahib, pre sented itself. 88 Officers, 190 men of Her Majesty's 84th Foot, 70 ladies, 120 women and children of Her Majesty's 32nd Foot, and the whole European and Christian population of the place, including civilians, merchants, shopkeepers, engineers, pensioners and their families, numbers about 400, had fallen victims to his savagery. On the 3rd September Lord Elgin left Calcutta for China ; he arrived at Calcutta from China in the " Shannon '' on the 14th August. On 14th September the assault on Delhi was commenced by the English troops, who succeeded in driving the enemy before them, and effecting a lodgment in the city. On 16th September the magazine was stormed. On 17th September the palace at Delhi was attacked and taken, and the King took flight in female disguise. On 18th September further successes were accomplished in Delhi, notwithstanding that the mutineers kept up a deadly fire from the house tops. On 19th September General Havelock, with 2,500 men, crossed the Ganges from Cawnpore, on their way to Lucknow. On 20th September, Delhi was finally taken, and the rebellious sepoys were utterly defeated. On 21st September, the King of Delhi and his chief wife surrendered, and their lives were spared. On 22nd September, two sons and a grandson of the King of Delhi were captured and shot. On 23rd Sep tember, General Nicholson died of his wounds, and two moveable columns were despatched from Delhi in pursuit of the enemy. On 25th September, the Resi dency at Lucknow was relieved by General Havelock, just as it was mined and ready to be blown up by the besiegers, General Neill being shot dead close by the Residency. On 14th October, the troops of the Rajah of Kotah mutinied, and murdered Major Burton, the Political Agent, and his two sons. On 9th November, Sir Colin Campbell (afterwards Lord Clyde) set foot in Oude, and on the 17th he was joined by Sir James Outram and Sir Henry Havelock. On 25th November 1857, at Alumbagh, died Sir Henry Havelock ; worn out with fatigue and anxiety, he sunk under an attack of dysentery. On 28th December 1857, Lieutenant Willoughby Osborne, Political Agent in Rewah, who had so long maintained himself, single-handed, in the midst of a dis affected population, carried the city of Myhere by storm, and on the 3rd January succeeded in capturing the fort, and taking the rebel Chief, Mohund Sing, prisoner. The trial of the King of Delhi, Punjab Selection (new series), No. 7, contains an alphabetical list of persons implicated in the mutinies. In the Record Depart ment there are three volumes of printed mutiny papers, and there are also some, indexed, in the Secret Department. The Collections to India Political Despatch, dated 24th July (No. 57) 1860, include Lord Canning's Minutes, the nomination v,/ by Lord Stanley, on the 19th April 1859, of a Special Committee, viz., Sir ^ > fi*^cf^ Frederick Currie, Sir John (afterwards Lord) Lawrence, General Sir Robert Jj ^~*SX Vivian, G.C.B., and Captain W. J. Eastwick, to report on claims to reward for f^^^Cft^ » » » Committee to examine and report on Nizamut Accounts, p. 14. „ » j> » » Compromises his action v. Mackenzie, Lyall, & Co., p. 24. » » » » 3> Green Book published in 1870, p. 14. » » » » j> Nizamut expenses, p. 8. » » j> » j> personal allowance, p. 8. » j> » 33 j> reductions of stipend, pp. 8, 19. Bentinck, Lord William, appointed Governor General, p. 18. „ „ suspends Maharajah of Mysore, p. 18. Berhampore , mutiny at, p. 1 8. Besancon, p. 17. Bhamo Expedition : Major E. B. Sladen's, p. 24. ,, trade or caravan route between India and China, vid Burmah, p. 24. Bhurtpore. : Rajah, pp. 15, 18. „ siege of, raised, p. 15. „ p. 18. Bible, the : to be in the Library of Government Schools in India, and may be expounded to the scholars by the Masters, out of school hours, p. 23. Bill (and see " Acts of Parliament ") for regulating affairs of the East India Company, p. 8. „ for the abolition of the East India Company, pp. 26, 27. „ » i, n „ in Committee on, p. 26. n » » » » debate, p. 26. „ » » ii n Lords' amendments, p. 26. „ » !! n n passed both Houses, pp. 26, 27. ,, Conspiracy to murder, p. 26. Birch, Major-General Sir J. H., K.C.B., p. 25. Bithoor, Nana Sahib of, pp. 17, 24, 25. „ „ „ the Cawnpore massacre, pp. 17, 25. Black Hole, the, Calcutta, p. 7. Blair, Port : the Indian convict station, p. 26. Board of Administration, Punjab, p. 22. „ of Control, established, p. 11. „ „ correspondence in Political Department, India Office, p. 22. „ Presidents, pp. 14, 26, 27. „ PP- 18, 22. 32 Board of Control, Memoranda in basement of India Office, pp. 5, 8, 13, 15, 16, 20. Bogle, Mr. George ; his mission to Thibet, p. 23. Bombay, p. 9. „ Administrators-General appointed, pp. 13, 14, 22. „ Baptismal and other Certificates, Wills, &c, p. 14. „ ceded to the Company, p. 5. „ Chief Justice, p. 9. „ Commander-in-Chief, p. 5. „ Commandant, p. 6. „ Court of Appeal, p. 9. ,, created a separate Government, p. 6. ,, Deputy Governor, p. 6. „ Governor, pp. 5, 6, 18. „ Government, pp. 22, 23. „ „ to obey the Orders of the Government of India, p. 9. „ „ Gazette, pp. 9, 20. „ High Court, p. 9. „ Insurrection, p. 6. „ Marine termed the " Indian Navy," p. 18. ,, Members of Council, p. 6. „ Presidency, p. 11. „ Selections from Records, p. 17. „ Sudder Court, p. 9. „ Supreme Court, pp. 9, 10. „ University established, p. 24, „ village settlement, p. 11. Bonnet Family, French, alleged claim on Government of India, pp. 17, 18. „ „ English, „ „ „ p. 18. „ Jane, p. 18. „ Jean Claude Francois, p. 17. Books and documents of the East India Company to be transferred to the Secretary of State, on the abolition of the Company, p. 27. „ pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24. Borneo : Company's Settlements in, pp. 6, 7, 10, 12, 21. „ convicts and convict station, Indian, in, p. 10. „ „ „ „ Italian, in, 10, 21. „ insurrection in, p. 7. „ Keppel's expedition to, p. 12. „ treaty with, p. 6. „ „ ceding Labuan to the Company, and agreeing to make no cessions of territory to other Powers without consulting England, p. 21. Bower, Mrs. (daughter of Sir William Nott) : pension to, p. 20. Bribes (presents) from Native Princes and Chiefs : Company's servants not to receive, p. 8. Brigg's, " The Nizam," p. 16. Brownrigg., Sir Robert, p. 15. " Bruce's Annals of the East India Company," p. 7. Brundrett, Messrs, p. 14. Buckingham, Mr. James Silk, p. 13. Bullocks slaughtered by Mr. E. O'Riley and Major E. B. Sladen, p. 24. Bundelcund : administrative changes, p- 20. Burhampore (see " Berhampore "). Burial certificates in India : copies at India Office, p. 14. Burke, Mr. Edmund : his impeachment of Warren Hastings, p. 1 1 . Burmah and British Burmah, pp. 17, 24. „ King of, pp. 12, 23, 24. „ Missions to and from, pp. 12, 23. „ revolutions in, p. 23. „ Royal family, p. 23. „ trade with, pp. 12, 24. „ Treaties with, pp. 12, 18. „ first war with, p. 17. „ second war with, p. 22. Burnes, Sir Alexander : murder of, p. 19. Burton, Major, Political Agent, Kotah : murder of, and of his two sons, p. 25. Bussorah, p. 9. „ Political Resident, p. 9. „ siege of, by the Persians, p. 9. Buxar, battle of, pp. 7, 8. By-laws, p. 7. Committee, p. 27. Cabinet papers, (confidential), p. 22. Cabul (and see " Afghanistan ") Expedition, p. 19. „ evacuated by the British, p. 19. „ hostages and prisoners released, p. 20. „ massacre of British troops in the Khyber Pass, p. 19. „ re-entered by the British, pp. 19, 20. „ Treaty with Dost Mahomed of, p. 23. 33 Calcutta, pp. 7, 9, 10, 20, 23. „ Bishop of, p. 25. „ Blackhole, p. 7. „ Burmese Embassy to, p. 23. „ Garden Reach, pp. 23, 24. „ Government Gazette, pp. 9, 1 3, 23. „ High Court, p. 13. n „ „ Ecclesiastical Registrar, p. 13 „ „ „ Chief Justice, p. 13. „ „ Registrar, p. 14. „ Journal, p. 13. „ Lord Elgin left for China, p. 25. „ police of: measures for improving the, p. 12. „ suburbs of, pp. 15, 23, 24. „ Supreme Court at, established, p. 8. „ University established, p. 24. Cambay, factory at, p, 5. Campbell, Sir Colin (afterwards Lord Clyde), p. 25. Canal, Suez, p. 22. Canara, p. 11. Canning, Right Honourable George, nominated Governor General of India, p. 17. „ Visoount, appointed Governor General of India, p. 23. „ „ Minutes on the Sepoy Mutiny, p. 25. „ „ censured by Lord Ellenborough, p. 26. „ „ vote of confidence in, from Court of Directors, p. 26. Cannon, p. 8. Caravan trade route, Bhamo, p. 24. Carnatic, p. 1 1 . „ lapse of, to the Company, p. 23. „ Nawab of : treaty with, pp. 1 1, 23. „ „ „ Azeem-ood-Dowlah, p. 23. Cartridges, the greased, p. 24. Caste : rumour that the caste of the Hindoos and Mahomedans was to be destroyed by force, in order to advance Christianity in India, p. 24. Castlereagh, Lord (afterwards Lord Londonderry) : President of the Board of Control, p. 14. „ „ death of, p. 17. Catchpoole, President, p. 7. Cattle slaughtered, p. 24. Caubul (see « Cabul "). Cawnpore, Sir H. Havelock's march to Lucknow from, p. 25. „ massacre, p. 25. „ mutiny, p 24. „ surrender, p 24. „ retaken, p. 25. Censure of Lord Dalhousie on Sir Charles Napier, p. 22. „ „ Ellenborough on Lord Canning, p. 26. Central Asia, p. 22. „ India, p. 16. „ Provinces, p. 16. / Certificates, baptismal, marriage, and burial, filed at India Office, and indexed, p. 14. „ of burial, pp. 14, 18. Cessions of territory to the Company (see " Grants "). „ „ „ not to be made by Borneo, without consulting Government, p. 21. „ „ by the Company, pp. 16, 17. „ „ to the Crown, p. 23. Ceylon, p, 17. „ annexed, p. 15, „ Governor of p. 15. „ King deposed on account of his cruelty, p. 15. „ minor Chiefs : Treaty with, p. 15. „ Sir Emerson Tennent's History of, p. 15. „ taken from the Dutch, p. 12. Charles I., King, p. 5. „ H., King, pp. 5, 18. „ „ his Queen Catherine of Portugal, p. 5. Charters, pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 18. „ printed collection of, pp. 5, 7. " Charter of Union," p. 7. Chesney, Major-General : the Euphrates Expedition, p. 19, Children massacred by Nana Sahib at Cawnpoor, pp. 17, 25. Chillianwalla, battle of, p. 21. China : Diplomatic Service : India pays one third of the cost, p. 19. „ Emperor of: Letter to Prince Regent of England, p. 16. „ Lord Elgin left Calcutta for, p. 25. „ „ Amherst's Embassy to, p. 16, „ „ Macartney's „ p. 12. „ Opium for, p. 17. „ Projects for trade with, pp. 7, 16. „ „ „ vid Burmah, p. 24. „ „ „ via Thibet,'p. 23. „ relations of the. East India Company with, p. 16. „ trade „ „ „ p. 15. 16148, I 34 Cholera : death of Sir H. Barnard from, p. 24. Christianity in India ; the Bible to be in Government School Libraries, and may be expounded to the scholars out of school hours, p. 23. „ „ Native troops under the impression that caste was to be destroyed in order to advance Christianity, p. 24. Circars, Northern, p. 8. Cis- Sutlej States, p. 1. Civil and Criminal Courts estabUshed in India, p. 12. Clark, Mr. Francis, p. 14. Clive, Colonel (afterwards Lord Clive and EarlPowis), pp. 7, 12. Clyde, Lord, p. 25. Cochrane, Mr. G. E., p. 25. Coins and coinage, p. 13. Coja Cazar Gregorio, pp. 9, 10, 18. Colaba, Angria Family of, p. 20. „ annexed, p. 20. Colombo, siege of, p. 12. Colonial Office : transfer of the Straits Settlements to, p. 17. „ „ transmission to, of Rules in force in India, as to acceptance of presents from Natives by servants of Government, p. 8. Colours : Hindoo and Mahomedan, hoisted by Mutineers at Cawnpore, p. 24. Commander-in-Chief, pp. 12, 15, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25. „ and Governor-General: offices united in one person, pp. 15, 18. „ Bombay, p. 5. „ deaths from cholera, pp. 24, 25. Commercial speculations : Company's servants not to embark in, p. 8. Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, p. 26. Commissions drawn by Administrators-General in India, pp. 13, 14. Committee : By-Law, p. 27. „ Secret, p. 5. „ Special, to determine on rewards for services during the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. „ to examine and report on the Nizamut Accounts, p. 14. „ Special, of House of Commons, pp. 13, 26. Commons, House of, pp. 19, 26, 27. „ „ Special Committees, pp. 13, 26. Commutation or redemption of East India Stock on the abolition of the Company, p. 26. Company's rivals, pp. 5, 6. Compromise of the Nawab Nazim's action v. Mackenzie, Lyall, & Co. p. 24. Concession from Court of Directors to Messrs. W. Palmer & Co., Bankers at Hyderabad, p. 16. Condore, Pulo (see " P "). Conolly, Mr. H, V., murder of, p. 19. Conspiracies (see " Mutinies "). „ to Murder Bill, p. 26. Constable of the Tower of London, p. 20. Constantinople, p. 9. Consultations (Bengal), p. 24. Contracts of friendship with Karens and Khakhyens, p. 24. „ not to be undertaken by Company's servants, p. 7. Control, Board of : established, p. 1 1. Convent of St. Lazare at Venice, pp. 9, 10. Conventions (see " Treaties "). Convicts and Convict Stations : Indian, pp. 10, 26. „ „ Italian, pp. 10, 21. Coolies : ill-treatment of, p. 23. Coorg : annexation of, p. 18. „ Rajah deposed and pensioned, p. 18. „ „ death of, p. 18. „ Royal Family of, p. 18. Coote, Sir Eyre, p. 11. Cornwallis, Marquis of: appointed Commander-in-Chief, p. 15. i, n „ Governor-General, p. 1 1. „ „ re-appointed „ „ p. 15. „ „ resigned, p. 12. „ i, his permanent Revenue Settlement, p. 11. „ „ death of, p. 15. Cortland, Colonel, p. 21. Corygaum, battle of, p. 16. Court of Directors of East India Company : pp. 7, 8, 9, 20, 27. » » „ Dissents, p. 21. » » » expressing confidence in Lord Canning, after Lord Ellen- borough's censure on him, p. 26. ,i ii 3, Minutes, pp. 20, 21. ,. n i, Resolutions, pp. 6, 20, 21. Court of Managers, p. 6. „ Proprietors, pp. 7, 8, 9, 27. Courten, Sir William, p. 5. Courten's Association, p. 5. Courtenay Estate, p. 18. Courts : Civil and Criminal, in India : established, p. 12. „ Law, p. 8, 9, 10. Craufurd, Mr. Clifford, p. 27. „ „ death of, p. 27. 35 Criminal Courts established in India, p. 12. Cromwell, Oliver (the Protector), p. 5. Crown, East India Company's power transferred to the, pp. 26, 27. Cruelty : deposal of Native Princes and Chiefs for, pp. 15, 18. Currency, p. 13. Currie, Sir Frederic, Bart., pp. 21, 25. Customs-duties, Portuguese, at Surat, p. 7. D. Dacca, p. 9. Dalhousie, Earl of: appointed Governor-General, p. 21. „ „ his censure on Sir Charles Napier, p. 22. „ „ Minute on Dhuleep Sing's allowance, p. 21. „ „ „ „ Wahabee conspiracy at Patna, p. 22. „ „ his celebrated Farewell Minute, p. 24. „ „ project of the Hindostan and Thibet Road, p. 23. De Rosaz, Chevalier, p. 10. Deaths in India : Certificates of, at India Office, p. 14. Debt of the East India Company, p. 8. „_of Native States, p. 16. „ National : Commissioners for the Reduction of, p. 21. Deccan, the : Captain Staunton's march to Poonah from, p. 16. Defalcations of Administrators-General in India, pp. 13, 14. Delhi : assault on, by the English, p. 25. „ capture of, p. 25. „ columns sent from, in pursuit of the Mutineers, p. 25. „ King or Emperor of : cedes Bengal to the Company, pp. 8, 9. „ „ „ death of the King's sons and a grandson, p. 25. „ „ „ flight of, p. 25. „ „ „ surrender of, and his chief wife, p. 25. „ „ „ death of, p. 25. „ massacre of Europeans at, p. 24. „ palace, p. 25. „ Sepoy Mutiny at, p. 24. Denmark : Danish East India Company: permitted to import opium and saltpetre, p. 14. „ „ „ permission withdrawn, p. 15. „ makes over Nicobar Islands to England, p. 21. „ offers Nicobar Islands to France and other European Powers, p. 21. „ Treaty with, ceding all Danish possessions in India to East India Company, pp. 20, 21. „ „ none a3 to opium and saltpetre, p. 15. „ war with, p. 15. „ „ Danish ships and property captured during war, restored, p. 15. Dent, Mr. William, p. 27. Deposals of Native Princes for cruelty, &c, pp. 15, 18. Derby, the late Earl of, p. 26. Designation of the East India Company, pp. 5, 6. Despatches, first : from Bengal and Madras,- p. 5. Dewan, p. 1 5. „ Moolraj, p. 21. Dhuleep Sing, Maharajah, p. 21. „ „ the Kohinoor Diamond, p. 21. „ „ provision for, p, 21. „ „ - „ his family, p. 21 . „ ,, Treaty with, p. 21. Diamond, the Kohinoor, p. 21. Diplomatic Service in China : India pays one third of cost, p. 19. Directors, Court of, of East India Company (see " C " and " E "). Disraeli, Right Hon. Benjamin, p. 26. Dissents of Court of Directors, p. 21. Dissolution of the East India Company, pp. 26, 27. Dividends on East India Stock, which had lapsed at the date of the abolition of the Company, to form part of the revenues of India, p. 27. „ „ „ limitation on rate of, p. 8. ,, „ „ redemption or commutation of, pp. 26, 27. „ ,, „ unclaimed for ten years, p. 27. Doctors must be with Coolie ships, p. 23. Documents and Books relating to the East India Company transferred to the Secretary of State, on the abolition of the Company, p. 27. Doorjun Sal, Rajah of Bhurtpore, p. 18. Dost Mahomed, of CabuL p. 19. „ „ Treaty with, p. 23. " Dragon," p. 5. Duff, Mr. M. E. Grant, M.P., p. 27. Duleep Sing (see " Dhuleep Sing "). Dutch, the : cession of Java to, p. 16. „ „ Ceylon wrested from, p. 12. ,, „ exchanges of territory with, p. 17. 36 Dutch, the : expelled from Java, p. 15. in India, Straits Settlements, and Ceylon, on footing of " most favoured nation," p. 17. proceedings and encroachments in Eastern Seas, p. 17. St. Helena abandoned by, p. 5. their formula of administration in India, p. 6. Treaties with, p. 16. Duties, Portuguese, at Surat, p. 7. Dysentery : death of General Sir Henry Havelock from, p. 25. E. East India Company formed, p. 5. „ „ Admiralty Jurisdiction, p. 6. „ „ Bill for regulating affairs of, pp. 8, 9. „ „ „ abolition of, pp. 26, 27. „ „ Board of Control established, p. 11. „ „ books and papers transferred to the Secretary of State, on abolition of, p. 27. „ „ Borneo, relations with, pp. 6, 7, 10. „ „ Bruce's Annals of, pp. 6, 7. „ „ By-laws, p. 7. „ „ „ Committee, p. 27. „ „ cessions of territory to the Crown, pp. 19, 23. ,, „ Chairman, p. 27. „ „ Charters, pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 15. „ „ China, Diplomatic Service in : India pays one third of cost, p. 19. „ „ „ relations with, p. 16. „ „ „ trade, p. 15. n „ Civil and Criminal Courts established, p. 12. st „ Concession to Messrs. W. Palmer & Co., Hyderabad bankers, p. 16. „ „ Court of Directors, pp. 7, 8, 20, 27. „ „ „ Proprietors, pp. 7, 8, 27. „ „ Danish, pp. 14, 15. n „ „ possessions in India made over to, pp. 20, 21. „ „ Debts, p. 8. 5> „ Despatches from India, first, p. 5. „ .„ Euphrates Expedition, grant to, p. 19. 3J „ first Fleet, p. 5. „ special good service grants, pp. 16, 20. „ „ indenture, tripartite, p. 7. }, „ lapses of territory to, pp. 16, 18, 19, 20. „ laudatory notice of, in the " Times," p. 27. „ Memorandum on their relations with Java, p. 15. j; „ Parliamentary inquiry into affairs of, p. 8. \, ,, policy, pp. 6, 17. „ power transferred to the Crown, pp. 26, 27. , „ protests against abolition, pp. 26, 27. „ first railway in India, p. 23. , „ relations with Borneo, 6, 7, 10. „ „ „ China, p. 16. „ rival bodies, pp. 5, 6, 7, „ „ salaries and allowances from Secretary of State since 1859, p. 27. „ ,, first Secret Committee, p. 6. „ „ Secretary, p. 27, n „ Security Fund, p. 26. „ servants not to embark in commercial speculations, p. 8. }) „ „ „ hold lands in India nor to undertake contracts, p, 7. 5) „ „ „ receive bribes from Native Princes and Chiefs of India, p. 8. „ „ who lend money to Native Princes or Chiefs without leave of Court, Governor General, or Governor of a Presidency, liable to prosecution for misdemeanour, p. 12. „ first settlement in India, p. 5. „ „ title or designation, p. 5. ); „ trade monopoly, pp. 5, 6, 15. „ „ „ „ abolished, pp. 15, 18. „ „ with China, p. 15. „ first Treaty, p. 5. East India merchants, p. 17. papers in State Paper Office, p. 5. "„ Stock, pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. „ Dividend Account at the Bank of England, p. 27. „ „ limitation of, by Act of Parliament, p. 8. „ on the abolition of the Company, all proprietors who did not wish to take other Government Stock or securities in exchange, received 200/. for every 100/. India Stock they held, p. 27. „ qualification for a Director, p. 9. " „ Redemption Act, 1873, p. 26. „ „ or commutation of, on abolition of the Company, pp. 26, 27. East 'indies : United Company of Merchants trading to the, p. 6. 37 Eastern Seas, Dutch proceedings in, p. 17- „ „ piracy'in, p. 17. Eastwick, Captain W. J., p. 25. Ecclesiastical Registrars of" Presidency High Courts, pp. 13, 14. „ „ defalcations of, pp. 13, 14. Education Department, p. 23. „ of the Mysore (Mahomedan) Family, p. 15. „ Native: the Bible to be in Government schools and libraries, and may be expounded to scholars after school hours, p. 23. Edwardes, Lieutenant (afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel Sir) Herbert, K.C.B., pp. 21, 25. „ „ „ „, „ „ „ his Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, p. 24. Elahi Buksh (Wahabee), trial of, p. 22. Elephants, p. 7. Elgin, Lord, left Calcutta for China, p. 25. Elizabeth, Queen, p. 5. Ellenborough, Lord, p. 20. „ „ appointed Governor-General, p. 19. „ „ his Secret Despatch consuring Lord Canning, p. 26. „ „ removal of Political Officers in Bundelcund and. Saugor, p. 20. „ „ resignation of post of President of the Board of Control, p. 26. Elphinstone, Hon. Monstuart, pp. 9, 16, 17, 58. „ „ „ retired from being Governor of Bombay, p. 18. " Elphinstone," ship, p. 23. Embassies (see " Missions"). Emigrants, Indian, ill treatment of, p. 23. " English Company," the, pp. 6, 7. Envoys, Embassies, &c. (see "Missions"). Estates, unclaimed for 15 years, transferred to credit of Government, pp. 9, 13. Euphrates Expedition, the, p. 19. „ and Tigris : British vessels on, p. 19. „ „ „ Company, p. 19. European fugitives from Futtyghur during the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. „ Powers, exchanges of territory with, p. 17. „ „ Nicobar Islands offered to, by Denmark, p. 21. „ women and children massacred by Nana Sahib at Cawnpore, pp. 17, 25. Europeans forbidden to enter the service of many Native States, p. 5. „ would not prostrate themselves before a vacant throne, p. 16. „ their pecuniary transactions with Native States : Company will not interfere in, p. 16. Examiner of India Correspondence, East India House ; his Protest against abolition of the East India Company, p. 26. Exchanges of territory with European Powers, p. 17. Expedition ; Keppel's, to Borneo (Book), p, 12. „ Major-General Chesney's Euphrates, p. 19. „ „ E. B. Sladen's Bhamo, p. 24. „ Cabul, p. 19. F. Factories, p. 5. Fanatics at Malabar, p. 19. „ at Swat and Sittana, p. 22. Farewell Minute, Lord Dalhousie's, p. 24. „ „ . Sir R. Montgomery's, p. 22. „ Address to the troops : Sir Charles Napier's, p. 22. Farming the revenues of territory, p. 15. Fees at India Office for copies of wflls, certificates, &c, p. 14. Ferozepore : battle of, p. 20. Ferozeshah, „ p. 20. Financial embarrassments of the East India Company, p. 8. „ and Revenue printed Accounts, p. 15. Finnis, Colonel, 11th Bengal Native Infantry, murder of, p. 24. Firmans, pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, 22. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Margaret, p. 14. Flags, Hindoo and Mahomedan, hoisted at Cawnpore by mutineers, p. 24. Fleet : Company's, pp. 5, 7, 18. „ Royal, p. 5. Fontenis, p. 17. Foreign Office, pp. 7, 8, 10, 18. „ „ connexion with the Persian Mission, p. 19. „ „ Memorandum from, p. 17. „ „ Secretary of State for Foreign Affair, p. 17. „ ,i views as to Portuguese privileges at Surat, p. 22. „ Powers cannot conclude treaties with many Native States in India without consent of Govern ment, p. 5. Fort Marlborough: baptismal and other certificates at, p. 14. „ William, Settlement of, p. 7. Fortifications, forts, &c, pp. 6, 15, 16, 22, 24, 25. „ „ „ razed, pp. 20, 22. 16148. K 38 France: French possessions in India, pp. 11, 15. „ „ „ „ Convention prohibiting manufacture of salt in, p. 15. „ „ power virtually annihilated, p. 11. „ „ alleged claims to an Indian estate, p. 17. „ „ lawyer, p. 10. „ Nicobar Islands offered to, by Denmark, p. 21. „ Salt, Opium, and Saltpetre Convention with, p. 15. „ wars with, pp. 11, 12. Franche Comte, p. 17. Free-trade, p. 17. Fugitives, European, from Futtyghur, during the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. Fund, Security : East India Company's, p. 26. Funeral of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock in Westminster Abbey, p. 20. „ Mr. Vans Agnew and Lieutenant Anderson, p. 21. Furrell, Mr. William (a Solicitor), p. 22. Futtyghur : European fugitives from, p. 25. Fuzl, Syud, p. 19. Fyz-oollah Khan, Rohilla Chief, p. 12. G. Ganges, the, crossed by General Sir H. Havelock, en route from Cawnpore to Lucknow, p. 25. Garden Reach, suburb of Calcutta : estate of the Ex-King of Oude at, p. 23. Gazee-ood-deen Nuggur (see " Ghazee-ood-deen Nuggur"). Gazette, Bombay Government, p. 20. „ Calcutta „ pp. 9, 13, 23. „ London, pp. 9, 13, 14, 24. Gazetteer of India, Thornton's, p. 22. Ghazee-ood-deen Nuggur : battle of, p. 24. Gholam Mahomed Khan (Rohilla Chief), p. 12. Goa, p. 5. „ alleged prohibition of export of opium from, p. 17. Godolphin, The Lord High Treasurer, p. 7. Gogree, p. 5. Gold, p. 5. Good-service pensions, pp. 16, 20. Goojerat: battle of, p. 21. Gough, General Sir Hugh (afterwards Lord), pp. 20, 21, 22. „ „ „ appointed Commander-in-Chief, p. 20. Government Gazettes, pp. 9, 13, 14, 20, 23. „ Loan, p. 9. „ Schools in India : the Bible to be in the libraries of, and may be expounded out of school hours, p. 23. Governor-General of India, pp. 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25. „ „ „ Council appointed, p. 9. „ „ „ and Commander-in-Chief: offices united in one person, p. 15. „ of Bombay, pp. 5, 6, 18. ,, of Madras, pp. 6, 12, 18. Grant Duff, Mr. M. E., M.P. (see " Duff"). Grants of territory to the Crown, pp. 19, 23. „ ,, „ Company, pp. 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 21. „ „ by the Company (see "Cessions"). „ special good service, pp. 16. 20. Granville, Earl, p. 22. Greased cartridges, the, p. 24. Great Mogul, The, pp. 5, 6, 7. Gregorio, Coja Cazar, pp. 10, 18. „ Satoor, p. 10. Guano, p. 23. Guarantees, pp. 5, 12. Guicowar (and see "Baroda"), His Highness the: conduct of Bajee Rao towards, pp. 15, 16. Gujerat (see "Goojerat"). Gungadur Shastree : murder of, p. 16. H. Halliday, Sir Frederick, K.C.B., p. 25. Hamilton, Sir Robert K.C.B., p. 25. Hardinge, Sir Henry (afterwards Lord), appointed Governor-General, p. 20. Harris, General, p. 12. Hastings, Marquis of, appointed Governor-General, p. 15. n n 1, i, „ retirement of, p. 17. „ Warren, pp. 11, 23. „ „ his resignation of post of Governor-General, p. 11. „ „ impeachment of, p. 11. „ „ trial and acquittal, p. II. Havelock, General Sir Henry : entry into Cawnpore, p. 25. „ „ „ death of, from dysentery, p, 25. Hayes, Mr., p. 14. 39 Head-man of a village, pp. 11, 12. „ „ „ his designation in different parts of India, p. 12. " Hector," p. 5. Helena, St., pp. 5, 14, 19. Helps, Mr. A., p. 27. High Court of Bombay, pp. 9, 14. „ „ Calcutta, p. 14. „ „ Madras, pp. 13, 14. Hindoos : disaffection from British Government of, p., 24. „ believe that their caste was to be destroyed, p. 24. „ and Mahomedans : their colours hoisted by the mutineers at Cawnpore, p. 24. Hindostan and Thibet Road, p. 23. Hislop, General Sir Thomas, p. 16. Hobart, Lord, Governor of Madras, p. 12. Holkar, His Highness the Maharajah of Indore : war with, p. 16. Holland : Ceylon wrested from, p. 12. „ exchange of territory with, p. 17. „ proceedings and encroachments in Eastern Seas, p. 17. „ St. Helena abandoned by, p. 5. „ their formula of administration in India, p. 6. „ treaty with, p. 17. Hornidge, Mr. Marmaduke, p. 14. Hostages for the fulfilment of treaties, pp. 11, 12. „ British, left in Affghanistan, p. 20. House of Commons, p. 19. „ Lords, p. 19. Hyder Ali, p. 11. Hyderabad (Central Provinces), and see Nizam, the, pp. 8, 12. „ „ „ affairs of the Bankers, Messrs. W. Palmer & Co., p. 16. „ Treaty, pp. 8, 11, 12. „ (Sind), battle of, p. 20. I. Ilahi Buksh (see " Elahi"). Impeachment of Warren Hastings, p. 11. Import duties, Portuguese, at Surat, p. 7. Indenture, tripartite, p. 7. Index to Board of Control Memoranda in Record Department, India Office, p. 15. India Presidency (see " Bengal"). „ Board (see " Board of Control"). „ Civil and Criminal Courts in, established, p. 12. „ Commander-in-Chief (see "C"). „ Dutch subjects in, on footing of most favoured nation, p. 17. „ East India Company to pay rent to the Crown for territories in, p. 8. „ right of the Crown to all lands acquired by the Company in, p. 8. „ French possessions in, p. 11 „ Governors-General of, pp. 9, 11, 12, 14, 16. „ Native Princes and Chiefs of (See " N "). „ Navy, pp. 5, 7. „ „ abolished, p. 18. „ Office Library, p. 19. „ „ Memoranda in basement, pp. 5, 8. ¦ „ railway, the first, p. 23. „ Revenue and Finance printed Account, p. 15. „ selection from Records of Government of, pp. 22, 24, 26. „ Secretary of State for, the first, p. 25. „ Thornton's Gazetteer of, p. 22. „ Wills and certificates : copies at India Office, p. 14. Indices in India Office to baptismal and other certificates, wills, &c, p. 14. Indies, West, p. 5. Indore (and see " Holkar "), p. 16. Indus, the, p. 20. Insolvency of Administrators-General of India, pp. 13, 14. Instruments, p, 19. Insurrections, (see "Mutinies "). •' Interlopers," p. 6. Intestate Estates in India, pp. 9, 13, 14. " Iris," the, p. 21. Islands, pp. 5, 6,. 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23,26. Italy, proposal of Italian Government for a Convict Station in Borneo, pp. 10, 21. Ivory, p. 5. Jaffir Meer, of Surat, death of, p. 13. Jageers, p. 12. Jail at Meerut, broken open by mutineers, p. 24. James I., King, p. 5. 40 James IL, King, p. 18. Java ceded by Treaty to the Dutch, p. 16. „ Company's relations with : Memorandum on, p. 15, „ the Dutch expelled from, p. 15. Jehangeer (The Great Mogul), p. 5. Jewels, p. 21. Jhansi, fort of, p. 24. „ lapse of, p. 23. „ massacre, p. 24. Jones, Mr. John, p. 27. „ Sir William : death of, p. 12. Judicial Department, pp. 19, 23. K. Kabul (see " C "). Kalka, p. 23. Karen Chief, Mr. E. O'Riley's contract of friendship with, p. 24. „ country, p. 24. Kaye, Sir John, K.C.S.I., his history of the Affghan war, p. 20. „ „ „ Memoranda respecting loans to Natives from Europeans, p. 11. Keigwin, Captain Richard, p. 6 Keppel's Expedition to Borneo (Book), p. 12. Khakyens, Major E. B. Sladen's contract of friendship with, p. 25. Khyber Pass, massacre of the British Army in the, p. 19. Khyrpoor, Meer Ali Morad of, p. 20. Kine-killing, p. 24. Kistnah Bahadoor, Maharajah of Mysore, p. 12. Knighthood, Order of the Bath, p. 25. Kohinoor diamond, the, p. 21. Kokan : Lieutenant Wyburd's supposed detention at, p. 22. Kolaba (see "Colaba"). Kooria Mooria Islands ceded to the Queen by Denmark, p. 23. Kotah Contingent, mutiny of, p. 25. „ „ „ murder of Major Burton and his two sons, p. 25. „ Political Agent, p. 25. Kurnaul : cholera at, p. 24. „ lapse, p. 18. Labourers, Indian : ill-treatment of, p. 23. Labuan ceded to the Company, p. 21. Lahore Family, p. 19. „ Maharajah, p. 19. „ „ death of, p. 19. „ „ Political Resident, Assistant, &c, p. 21. „ „ Treaty of peace, p. 21. Lake, General Lord, p. 15. Lancaster, Captain Jones, p. 5. Land Tenure, pp. 11, 12. Land-holding by Company's servants prohibited, p. 7. Lapse (there is a separate heading of " Annexations ") of the Carnatic to the Company, p. 23. „ Colaba, p. 20. „ Jhansi, p. 23. „ Kurnaul, p. 18. „ Loodhiana, p. 19. „ Nagpore, p. 23. „ of unclaimed East India Stock dividends to Government on the abolition of the Company, p. 27. Law Courts, pp. 8, 9, 10, 24. „ Officers in India, p. 10. Lawyer, French, p. 10. Lawrence, Sir Henry, pp. 21, 22. „ „ death of, p. 25. „ „ Life of, by Sir Herbert Edwardes and Mr. Herman Merivale, C.B., p. 24. „ Sir John (afterwards Lord), pp. 22, 25. Leader in the " Times " newspaper, laudatory of the East India Company, p. 27. Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for India in Council, p. 14. Letter from Emperor of China to Prince Regent, p. 16. Letters of Administration, p. 9. „ of thanks from the Queen for mutiny services, p. 25. „ Patent, p. 6. „ to and from Native Princes and Chiefs, p. 23. Liberty of the Press in India, abuses of, p. 13. Library, India Office, p. 19. List of persons involved in the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. „ of Officers who did good service in the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. Loans from Company's servants to Native Princes and Chiefs, except with consent of Court, Governor- General, or Governors of Presidencies, render lenders liable to prosecution for misdemeanor, p. 12. 41 London, p. 5. „ Company, pp. 6, 7. „ Gazette, pp. 9, 13, 14, 24. „ Tower of: Constable of, p. 20. Londonderry, Marquis of (Lord Castlereagh), p. 14. „ „ „ his death, p. 17. Loodhiana : lapsed, p. 19. Lords, House of, pp. 26, 27. Lord High Treasurer Godolphin, p. 7. Lucknow bombarded by mutineers, p. 25. „ captured by the English, p. 25. „ defended „ „ p. 25. „ Sir H. Havelock's march to, from Cawnpore, p. 25. „ King of Oude's palace and grounds at, p. 23. „ Residency, p. 25. „ siege of, p. 25. Lushington, Right Hon. S. R., appointed Governor of Madras, p. 18. Lyall, Messrs. (see " Mackenzie, Lyall, & Co."). Lynch, Mr. T. K., pp. 10, 19. M. Macartney, Lord : his embassy to China, p. 12. Macassar soldiers, p. 7, M'Caskill, General, p. 20. Mackenzie, Lyall, & Co., Messrs : the Nawab Nazim's action against, p. 24. Macnaghten, Sir William : murder of, p. 19. Macpherson, Mr. William, p. 14. Madagascar, King Elect of, p. 17. p. 17. Madras, p. 5. „ Administrators-General of, pp. 13, 14, 22. „ Army, p. 14. „ baptismal and other certificates, wills, &c, at, p. 14. „ first despatch from, p. 5. „ Gazette, p. 9. „ Government created, p. 6. n ,i P- 7. „ Governor of, pp. 12, 18. „ „ to obey the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, p. 9. „ Ecclesiastical Registrar, p. 13, 14. „ High Court, p. 13. „ Official Trustee, p. 14. „ University established, p. 24. Magistrates, Natives first allowed to be, p. 19. Mahomed Ali, p. 12. „ Ghouse, Nawab of the Carnatic : death of, p. 23. Mahomedans : alleged attempt to destroy the caste of, p. 24. „ and Hindoos : their colours hoisted by mutineers at Cawnpore, p. 24. Mahratta Campaign, the, pp. 11, 14, 15. Malabar, magistrate of, murdered, p. 19. „ Moplah outrages in, p. 19. Malacca ceded to England by the Dutch, p. 17. Malavili, battle of, p. 12. Malayan Peninsula : Dutch proceedings in the, p. 17. Malcolm, Sir John : appointed Governor of Bombay, p. 18. Malik, p. 12. Managers, Court of, p. 6. Marine, Bombay, p. 18. „ Department, p. 18. Marriage certificates, p. 14. „ portion, p. 5. Martaban : storming of, p. 22. Mason, Mr. J. C, p. 27. Massacre at Cawnpore, pp. 17, 25. „ „ Delhi, p. 24. „ „ Jhansi, p. 24. „ „ the Khyber Pass, p. 19. '„ „ Vellore, p. 15. Massin : Banjar (see " B "). Matthews, General, p. 11. Mechitarist Order of St. Lazare at Venice, pp. 9, 10. Medicines must be sent with coolie ships, p. 23. Meeanee : battle of, p. 20. Meer (in all cases see under next word, e.g., Meer Jaffer, see " J "). Meerut, 3rd Bengal Light Native Cavalry sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour at, for insubordi nation, p. 24. „ cantonment, p. 24. „ Jail broken open by Sepoy mutineers, p. 24. Mehidpore, battle of, p. 16. Melvill, Colonel Sir Peter, K.C.B., p. 25. Melville, Mr. J. R., p. 7. 16148. . L 42 Memoranda (and see " Minutes "), pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22. „ in basement of India Office, pp. 5, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20. Memorandum by Colonel Lewis Pelly on Wahabees in the Persian Gulf, p. 22. „ on Company's relations with Java, p. 15. „ „ the Bonnet (French) family, p. 18. Memorials, p. 10. Merchant Adventurers, p. 5. Merchants, East India, p. 17. Merivale, Mr. Herman, C.B. : his life of Sir Henry Lawrence, p. 24. Mhow, p. 17. Mighardich, p. 9. Military Department, India Office : Assistant Secretary, p. 25. „ services of Officers during mutiny, precis of, p. 25. „ tenures, p. 12. Mill, Mr. John Stuart : his protest against the abolition of the East India Company, p. 26. „ „ his memorandum respecting loans from Europeans to Natives, p. 11. p. 20. Minto, Lord : appointed Governor- General of India, p. 15. Minutes : (see " Memoranda "). „ Court, (see " C "). „ by Lord Canning on the Sepoy Mutiny, p. 25. „ „ Dalhousie, pp. 21, 22. „ Farewell, by Lord Dalhousie, p. 24. „ „ by Sir R. Montgomery, p. 22. Miriam, p. 10. Misappropriation of funds by Administrators-General of India, pp. 13, 14. Misdemeanor : Company's servants giving loans to Native Princes and Chiefs, without leave, liable to prosecution for, p. 12. Misrek, Rev. Isaia, p. 9. Mission, Persian, p. 19. Missions, Envoys, Embassies, and Expeditions, pp. 5, 12, 16, 19, 23. Mociiddum, p. 12. Mogul, The Great, pp. 5, 6, 8. Mohund Sing, Chief of Myhere : capture of, p. 25. Moira, Earl of (afterwards Marquis of Hastings) : appointed Governor-General of India, p. 15. Monopoly, Company's pp. 6, 18. Montgomery, Sir Robert, p. 22. „ „ his farewell Minute, p. 22. „ „ Memorandum on his career, p. 22. Moobaruk-ul-Dowlah, Nawab Nazim of Bengal : Treaty with, p. 8 Moolraj, Chief of, Mooltan, p. 21. Mooltan: battle of, p. 21. „ fort of, p. 21. „ war, p. 21. Moore, Mr. Henry, Political Resident at Bussorah, p. 9. Moorshedabad, pp. 7, 8. „ His Highness the Nawab Nazim or Subadar of p. 8. „ n n „ „ Committee to examine and report on Nizamut accounts, p. 14. „ „ „ » n compromise of his action v. Mackenzie, Lyall, & Co., p. 24. „ j, » ,j n Green Book published in 1870, p. 14. „ „ . „ „ „ Nizamut expenses, p. 8. „ n n ii n personal allowance, p. 8. „ n n n n reduction of stipend, pp. 8, 19. Moplah outrages in Malabar, p. 19. Mornington, Earl of (afterwards Marquis Wellesley): appointed Governor-General of India, p. 12. Most favoured nation clause in Treaties, p. 17. Moultan (see Mooltan). Munden, Captain (afterwards Sir William), p. 5. Mundy, Captain, p. 21. Munkaseer, Sedasheo, p. 15. Munro, Sir Thomas, p. 1 1 . „ „ his mode of revenue settlement, p. 51. „ „ death of, p. 18. Murders, pp, 7, 10, 12, 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 25. Muscat : the Imaum cedes Kooria Mooria Islands, p. 23. Mutilation of Parliamentary Returns, p. 20. Mutineers, 1857-58, Alphabetical List of, p. 25. Mutiny at Vellore attributed to a change in the Sepoys' turbans, p. 15. Mutinies, rebellions, conspiracies, revolts, insurrections, &c, p. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16 19 22 23 „ of the Bengal Army in 1857-58, pp. 16, 24, 25. „ „ » ,i Alphabetical List of mutineers, p. 25. n n n » _ » i} Officers who did good service in, p. 25. „ „ n n Minutes by Lord Canning on, p. 25. „ „ „ n papers in the Record Department, India' Office, pp. 24, 25. „ „ 3, n Special Committee on, p. 25. „ „ n n n n Report, p. 25. „ n n n n n Secretary to, p. 25. Myhere Chief captured, p. 25. „ Fort, p. 25. „ storming of, by Lieutenant Willoughby Osborne, p, 25. 43 Mysore, annexed, pp. 18, 19. „ Commission, p. 18. „ Hindoo Family, pp. 12, 18. „ Maharajah (Hindoo), p. 12. „ „ „ deposal and death, p. 18. „ „ „ his adoption, p. 18. „ (Mahomedan Family), pp. 11, 12, 15. „ „ „ education for, p. 15. „ „ „ provision for, p. 15. „ v „ „ Russapuglah School, p. 15. „ Partition Treaty of, p. 12. „ Province of, p. 11. „ Subsidiary Force, p. 13. Treaty, pp. 13, 18, 19. „ Tripartite „ p. 11. „ War, p. 11. N. Nagpore, lapsed to the Campany, p. 23. „ murder of Rajah of, p. 16. Nana Sahib (of Bithoor), p. 17. „ „ the massacre at Cawnpore, p. 25. Napier, Sir Charles, p. 20. • „ „ appointed Governor of Sind, p. 20. „ „ „ Commander-in-Chief, p. 22. „ „ „ „ censured by Lord Dalhousie, he resigns his post of, p. 22. „ „ „ „ his farewell address to the troops, p. 22. Nation, most favoured : clause in treaties, p. 1 7. National Debt, Commissioners for the reduction of, p. 26. Native Princes and Chiefs of India : Company empowered to make war or peace with, p. 5. „ „ „ „ Company's servants not to receive bribes (presents) from, p. 5. „ „ „ „ „ » who lend money to, without leave of Govern ment, Governor-General, or Governors of Presidencies, Uable to prosecution for mis demeanour, p. 12. „ „ „ deposed, pp. 15, 18. „ „ „ „ Europeans often prohibited, under Treaty, from serving under, p. 5. „ „ „ „ letters to and from, p. 16. „ „ „ „ pecuniary transactions with Europeans : Company will never inter fere in, p. 16. „ „ „ „ presents to and from, p. 16. „ „ „ „ Treaty relations with Foreign Powers usually prohibited, unless with Company's consent, p. 5. „ Soldiers : mutiny of, pp. 7, 15, 24, 25. „ States : adoptions, p. 18. „ „ annexed, pp. 8, 9, 18. „ „ debts of, p. 18. „ „ Dewans of, p. 15. „ „ lapses of, p. 18. „ „ troops of, pp. 15, 25. „ „ version of Treaties. Is this to be preferred to English ? p. 19. Natives : first admitted to magisterial office, p. 19. „ after school hours, the Bible may be expounded to Native scholars, p. 23. „ religious differences with, pp. 19, 22, 24. Navy, Company's, p. 5. „ Indian, p. 18. „ Royal, p. 18. Nawab Nazim of Bengal or Moorshedabad, His Highness the (see "B "). Neemuch mutineers, p. 25. Neill, General, death of, p. 25. Nepal, infraction of Treaty with, p. 15. „ war, p. 15. Netherland's Government: Java ceded to, p. 16. „ „ „ expulsion of, from, p. 15. „ „ Ceylon wrested from, p. 12. „ „ exchanges of territory with, p. 17. „ „ proceedings and encroachments in Eastern Seas, p. 17. „ „ St. Helena abandoned by, p, 5. „ „ their formula of administration in India, p. 6. „ „ treaties with, p. 16. Newspapers, pp. 9, 13, 14, 20, 24. „ leaders, p. 27. „ prosecuted for libel, p. 13. Nicobar Islands : abandoned by Denmark, p. 21. „ „ made over to England, p. 21. „ „ offered to France and other European powers, p. 21. Nichollett, Mrs. (daughter of Sir William Nott), pension to, p. 20. 44 Nicholson, General : death of, p. 25. Nineveh Marbles, the, p. 20. Nizam of Hyderabad, His Highness the : part of Mysore assigned to, p. 12. ,, „ „ pecuniary transactions of, with Messrs. W. Palmer and Co., bankers, p. 16. „ „ „ Treaty with, pp. 8, 11, 12. Nizamut Affairs (and see " Bengal "), p. 7. „ Accounts : Committee to examine and report on, p. 14. „ „ „ Report of, p. 14. „ Expenses, p. 8. Northern Circars, p. 8. Notifications (see " Proclamations "). Nott, General Sir William, p. 20. „ „ „ daughters of, p. 20. n Lady, p. 20. Nuggur (or "Bednore") : siege of, p. 11. o. Oath of Fealty : from Karens, p. 24. „ „ from Khakhyens, p. 24. jgj Official Agent to Administrators-General of India appointed in England, pp. 14, 22. „ „ „ „ „ must be sole Agent, pp. 14, 22. ,, Trustee, Madras : defalcations of, p. 14. , ' Opium : Convention with France, p. 15. „ allleged Convention with Portugal, prohibiting export of, from Goa, p. 17. „ Bengal, p. 17. „ permission to Danes to import, granted, p. 14. „ „ „ withdrawn, p. 15. pp. 15, 17. Ord, Mr. John, p. 23. Orders (see " Proclamations, Notifications, and Orders "). „ of Knighthood, p. 25. O'Riley, Mr. E. : his contract of friendship with a Karen Chief, p. 24. Orissa, p. 8. Oude : Annexation of, p. 23. „ King of: pecuniary claims of Europeans on, p. 11. „ „ palace in Garden Reach, Calcutta, p. 23. „ „ refusal to accept a pension from Government under Treaty, p. 23. „ „ retirement to Calcutta, pp. 23, 24. „ „ subsequent acceptance of pension from Government, p. 23. „ „ title to cease and pension to be reduced on his death, p. 24. „ „ Treaty with the Rohilla Chief, p. 12. Ouseley, Professor, p. 27. Outrani, Sir James, p. 25. Pagodas Star, p. 13. Palmer & Co., Messrs. W., bankers of Hyderabad, p. 16. Palmerston, Viscount, p. 26. „ „ resignation of, p. 26. Papers and Books relating to the East India Company to be made over to the Secretary of State on the abolition of the Company, p. 27. Parliament, pp. 6, 7, 8, 19, 26, 27. Acts of, pp. 7, 8, 26, 27. Parliamentary Inquiry into affairs of East India Company, p. 8. „ Returns, pp. 19, 20, 22, 24, 26. „ „ mutilated in India Office, p. 20. Parsedan, p. 9. Partition Treaty of Mysore, p. 12. Patel, p. 12. Patna : Annexation of, p. 7. , „ Wahabee conspiracy at, p. 22." Pattle, Rocke, and Hayes, Messrs., p. 14. Pegu : Annexation of, p. 22. Peishwa, the : death of, p. 17. „ „ (and see "Poona," "Bajee Rao,'' &c.). „ „ the Dewan (Prime Minister), p. 15. „ „ Nana Sahib, his son, pp. 17, 25. „ „ surrender to Sir John Malcolm, p. 17. „ „ Treaty with, pp. 11, 17. Pelly, Colonel Lewis : Memorandum on Wahabees in the Persian Gulf, p. 22. Penal Settlements : Indian, pp. 10, 26. „ „ Italian, p. 10. Penang (or Prince of Wales' Island, pp. 9, 10. „ wills and certificates from, p. 14. 45 Pensions increased in England without consulting Government of India : remonstrance of that Govern ment, p. 21. „ personal, pp. 19, 20, 23, 24. „ reduced : Nawab Nazim's, pp. 7. 19. „ „ Oude pensions will be, on the Ex-King's death, p. 24. „ Special good service, pp. 16, 20. Pergunnahs, Twenty-four, p. 7. "Permanent Revenue Settlement," p. 11. Persia : Consul-General in London, p. 10. „ Mission placed under the Foreign Office, p. 19. „ „ transferred to the India Office, p. 19. „ „ re-transferred to the Foreign Office, p. 19. „ The Shah of, p. 10. „ Treaty with, p. 5. Persian Gulf : Political Resident, p. 22. „ siege of Bussorah, p. 9. „ Wahabees in the, p. 22. pp. 9, 18. Personal pensions, pp. 19, 20, 23, 24# „ property, p. 12. „ Treaties, pp. 8, 23. Phayre, Major (afterwards Sir) Arthur, p. 23. Pindarree War, the, p. 16. Piracy, pirates, &c, p. 17. Pitt, Right Hon. William, p. 8. Plassey, battle of, p. 7. Plowden, Mr. W. H. C, p. 27. Police of Calcutta, p. 12. Political Department, India Office, Secretary, pp. 11, 20. „ „ „ Assistant Secretary, p. 7. „ „ „ Board of Control : Correspondence in, p. 22. „ and secret memoranda in basement of India Office, pp. 5, 15, 16. „ Officers : removal of, p. 13. „ „ to bring all presents from Natives to account, p. 8. „ status of the Company in India, p. 6. Pollock, Major-General (afterwards Field Marshal) Sir George, G.C.S.I., K.C.B., pp. 20, 27. Pondicherry, pp. 11, 17. „ Governor or Commandant, p. 17. „ taken from the French, p. 11. Poona, pp. 15, 16. „ annexed, p. 17. „ Political Resident at, pp. 16, 17. „ Tripartite Treaty at, by the English, the Peishwa, and the Nizam, against Tippoo Saib, p. 11. „ war with the Peishwa, pp. 16, 17. Pork fat, alleged to be mixed with the cartridges supplied to the Native Army, p. 24. Port Blair, the Indian Convict Station, p. 26. Porte, The, pp. 9, 10. Portugal, pp. 5, 7, 17. „ Catherine of, Queen of Charles IL, p. 5. „ Treaty with, p. 5. „ „ alleged, forbidding export of Opium from Goa, p. 17. Portuguese India, pp. 5, 7, 17. „ „ Statistical Account of, p. 17. „ „ Treaties with, pp. 5, 7, 17. ,, privileges at Surat, pp. 7, 22. Powers-of- Attorney, p. 9. Powis, Lord, p. 12. Presents from Native Princes and Chiefs to Company's servants prohibited, p. 8. „ „ „ „ whenever allowed, value to be deposited in Government Treasury for return presents, p. 8. „ to and from Native Princes and Chiefs, pp. 8, 23. Press Regulations in India, p. 1 3. Prime Ministers of Native States, p. 11. Prince of Wales' Island (or Penang), wills and certificates, p. 14. „ „ „ appeals, p. 9. Prisons, pp. 7, 16, 24. Pritzler, General, p.' 16. Private property, p. 12. Privateers, p. 17. Privy Council, pp. 6, 9, 11. Prize Money, p. 12. Proceedings (or Consultations) of Bengal Government, p. 24. Proclamations, Notifications, Orders, &c, pp. 6, 20, 21, 23. Prohibitions against certain conduct on the part of the Company's servants, pp. 7, 8. Proprietors of East India Stock, pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 27. Prosecution for misdemeanour may be instituted against Company's servants making loans to Native Princes and Chiefs, p. 12. „ for libel of Editor of " Calcutta Journal," p. 13. Prostration of Europeans before a vacant throne refused, p. 16. 16148. M 46 Protection, pp. 15, 17. Protest against aboUtion of the East India Company, Mr. John Stuart Mill's, p. 26. " " " " ^' ¦ -l i C T „ of Portuguese Government against abrogation of their commercial privileges at curat, p. 7. Public Department, pp. 24, 26. „ „ (Education), p. 23. „ Works Department, p. 23. Pulo Condore Island, p. 7. „ „ President, p. 7. „ „ revolt, p. 7. Punjab, pp. 18, 19. „ Annexation of, pp. 21, 22. „ Board of Administration, p. 22. „ Cabinet Papers, p. 22. „ Chief Commissioner appointed, p. 22. „ Confidential Papers, p. 22. „ Lieutenant-Governor appointed, p. 22. „ Parliamentary Papers, pp. 21, 22. „ Royal Family, pp. 19, 21. „ Selections, p. 25. „ Treaties, p. 21. „ War (and see " Sikh "), pp. 20, 21. Q. Queen, Her Majesty the : Letter of thanks to European Officers for service in the Mutiny of 1857-58, p. 25. „ „ „ took India under her direct control, pp. 26, 27. R. Ragojee Angria, p. 20. Railway, Indian : opening of the first, p. 23. Rampoor, p. 12. Rangoon : battle of, p. 22. „ stormed, p. 22. „ surrendered to British troops, p. 17- „ Viceroy of, p. 22. Rawlinson, Major-General Sir Henry, K.C.B., p. 20. RebeUions (see " Mutinies "). Record Department, India Office, p. 25. „ „ „ has an index to Board of Control Memoranda in the basement of the Office, p. 15. Redemption or commutation of East India Stock on the abolition of the Company, pp. 26, 27. Registrars, Ecclesiastical, &c. of High Court, pp. 13, 14. " Regulating Act," the, p. 8. Regulations (see " Rules and Regulations "). Reid, Mr. Lestock, p. 27. Religious ceremonies and rites, p. 18. „ education for Native children : the Bible to be in Government school libraries, and after school hours may be expounded to the scholars, p. 23. „ differences in India, pp. 19, 22, 24. Removal of Political Officers in Bundelcund and Saugor, p. 20. Rent payable to the Crown for Company's Indian possessions, p. 8. Resignation of the Right Honourable George Canning, p. 17. „ Lord Ellenborough, p. 26. „ Sir Charles Napier, p. 22. „ Lord Palmerston, p. 26. Resolution of Council of India, p. 14. ,, Court of Directors, p. 6. Resolutions : series of, of the House of Commons, in Committee on East India Company, p. 26. Revenue : of more importance than trade, p. 6. „ assessment, pp. 11, 12. „ collection of, pp. 11, 12. „ and Finance printed accounts, p. 15. „ Settlement, Permanent, p. 11. Revolts (see " Mutinies.") Rewah, mutiny in, p. 25. „ Political Agent, p. 25. Rewards to Europeans for services during the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. Ricketts, Mr. Gilbert, his defalcations and death, p. 13. Rites and religious ceremonies, p. 19. Rival Companies, pp. 5, 6. Rivers, pp. 19, 20, 25. Road, the Hindostan and Thibet, p. 23. Rocke, Mr., p. 14. Roe, Sir Thomas, p. 5. Rohilla Chiefs, the, p. 12. „ „ Treaties with, p. 12. „ war, p. 12. 47 Rosaz, Chevalier de (see De Rosaz). Royal Navy, p. 18. Rules and Regulations (and see "Proclamations and Notifications"), pp. 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19 22. Runjeet Sing, Maharajah : death of, p. 19. „ „ „ his son (Dhuleep Sing), p. 21. Russapuglagh School, the, p. 15. Russell, Lord John (afterwards Earl), p. 26. Ryan, Chief Justice Sir Edward, p. 13. Ryots, p. 11. Ryotwaree Settlement, p. 11. s. St. Helena abandoned by the Dutch, taken by the Company, p. 5. „ baptismal and other certificates, wills, &c, at, p. 14. „ transferred to the Crown, p. 19. Salaries of the Chairman, Directors, and Secretary of the East India Company since October 1859 p. 27. Salbye, treaty of, p. 11. Saldanha, Duke of: his historical protest against abrogation of Portuguese privileges at Surat, p. 7. Sale, Sir Robert, p. 20. Salt : convention prohibiting manufacture of, in French Indian possessions, p. 15. Saltpetre : convention with France, p. 15. „ permission to Danes to import granted, p. 14. „ „ „ „ withdrawn, p. 15. P- 17. Satoor, Gregorio, p. 9. , Sattara : adoption, p. 21. „ annexation of, p. 21. „ „ dissents, p. 21. „ „ Parliamentary papers, p. 21. „ fortress, p. 16. „ Rajah, p. 17. Saugor : administrative changes, p. 20. „ and Nerbudda territories, p. 25. Saxe-Bannister, Mr., p. 23. Schedules of accounts of Administrators- General of India to be advertised in India and England, pp. 13, 14. „ „ „ „ „ kept in India Office, p. 14. Schools, p. 15. „ Government : Native children may have the Bible expounded to them out of school hours, p. 23. Scinde (see " Sind "). Scindia : His Highness the Maharajah (Madajee) of Gwalior, p. 11. Secret Committee, first, p. 6. „ Despatch, Lord Ellenborough's, censuring Lord Canning, p. 26. „ Papers, pp. 5, 16, 17, 19, 20; 21, 22, 24, 25, 26. Secretaries of the East India Company since its virtual abolition in October 1 859, p. 27. „ of State, p. 11. „ „ for India, pp. 25, 26, 27. „ „ „ account at the Bank of England, p. 26. . „ „ „ all books, papers, &c, to be transferred to, on abolition of the Company, p. 27. „ „ „ annual allowance made by, for the Company's expenses since October 1859, p. 27. „ „ „ legal adviser to, p. 14. Security Fund, East India Company's, p. 26. Sedasheo Munkaseer, p. 15. Seikh (see " Sikh.") Selections from Records of Government of Bengal, p. 22. „ „ „ „ Bombay, pp. 17, 22. „ „ „ „ India, pp. 22, 23, 24, 26. „ „ „ „ the Punjab, p. 25. < Sepoys, p. 7. „ mutiny of the Native Army of, pp. 24, 25. „ n n „ „ Lord Canning's Minute on, p. 25. „ turbans, Vellore : mutiny attributed to alteration in, p. 15. Seringapatam, p. 12. „ storming of, p. 12. Serle, Mr. William Ambrose : his defalcations, p. 14, Service grants of money, p. 16, 20. „ „ territory, p. -12. Settlement: Permanent Revenue, p. 11. „ Village, p. 11. „ ¦ Revenue, modes of, pp. 11, 12. Sevajee, of Tanjore, death of, p. 23. Shah Alum (Subadar), p. 8. „ Soojah-ool-Moolk, p. 19. 48 Shahdadad Khan (Wahabee), trial of, p. 23. Shastree, Gungadhur, murder of, p. 16. Shere Sing, p. 21. Ships, pp. 5, 7, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 25. „ overcrowding of, p. 23. Sholapoor, p. 16. Shore, Sir John, appointed Governor General, p. 12. Sieges, pp. 11, 12, 15, 18, 24, 25. Sikh war, pp. 20, 21. „ army, surrender of, p. 21. Sind : Ameers and Ex-Ameers, p. 20. „ „ „ pensions for, p. 20. „ annexed, pp. 20, 21. „ proclamation, p. 20. „ Sir Charles Napier appointed Governor of, p. 20 „ war, p. 20. Simlah, p. 23. Sindia (see " Scindia "). Sittana fanatics, p. 22. Sladen, Major E. B. : his Bhamo expedition, p. 24. „ „ „ „ kine-slaughtering, and oath of friendship with the Karens, p. 24. Sleeman & Co., Messrs. H. B., p. 17. Smith, General, p. 16. „ Mr. Eric, p. 27. „ Sir Harry, p. 21. Sobraon, battle of, p. 21. Soldiers, Native : mutinies of, pp. 7, 15, 24, 25. Soojah (ool-Moolk-), Shah, p. 19. Sooloo, Sultan of, p. 12. Sooloos, p. 10. Southern Mahratta country, pp. 12, 14. Special Committee on services of Europeans during the 1857-58 Mutiny, p. 25. ,, good service grants, p. 16. Spithead, p. 16. Standards, Hindoo and Mahomedan, hoisted by mutineers at Cawnpore, p. 24. Stanley, Lord (now Earl Derby), pp. 25, 26. „ „ appointed President of the Board of Control, p, 26. Star pagodas, p. 13. State Papers, pp. 6, 15, 17. „ Paper Office, p. 5. Statistical account of Portuguese India, p. 17. „ Department of India Office, p. 23. Staunton, Captain, p. 16. Steamers, p. 19. Stock (for East India Stock, see " E "), pp. 5, 27. Stores, p. 19. Storming of Ahmednuggur, p. 15. „ Bassein, p. 22. „ Delhi, p. 25. „ Lucknow, p. 23. „ Martaban, p. 22. „ Myhere, p. 25. „ Rangoon, p. 22. „ Seringapatam, p. 12. Straits Settlements : Dutch proceedings in the Archipelago, p. 17. „ „ transferred to the Colonial Office, p. 17. „ „ wills and certificates from Penang, p. 14. Subsidiary treaty with Mysore, pp. 13, 18. „ forces in Mysore, p. 13. Subsidy, annual, towards cost of China Diplomatic Service, p. 19. „ ' „ „ „ vessels of Royal Navy, in Eastern Seas, p. 18. Suez Canal, p. 22. Suffocation, deaths from, in the Black Hole, Calcutta, p. 7. Sujah-ool-Moolk, (see " Soojah ") Sukias, pp. 9, 10. Sukkur, p. 20. Suloos (see " Sooloos ") Sumatra, p. 5. „ ceded to the Dutch, p. 17. „ treaty with Sultan of Acheen, p. 5. Sunnuds, p. 5. Surat, pp. 5, 7. „ Portuguese privileges at, pp. 7, 22. „ President and Council, pp. 5, 6. „ cession of, to the Company, p. 13. „ Nawab of: Treaty with, p. 13. „ Surgeons must be with coolie ships, p. 23. " Susan," p. 5. Sutlej, the, p. 20. Suttee abolished by the British Government, p. 18. Swat fanatics, p. 22. 49 Sykes, Major W. H., p. 27. „ Colonel W. H., M.P., p. 26. „ „ „ death of, p. 27. Sym.es, Captain, his mission to Ava, p. 12. Syud Fuzl (Moplah priest), p. 19. T. Talpoors, the, p. 20. Tanjore, death of Sevajee, p. 23. „ lapse of, 23. Tannah fort, p. 16. Telegram, p. 19. Tennent, Sir Emerson : his history of Ceylon, p. 15. Tenasserim ceded to the Company, p. 18. Tenure, military, p. 12. Territory, grant of, to (see " Grants "). „ cessions (see " Grants "). „ lapses (see " L "). „ exchanges (see " E"). Thibet and Hindostan Road, p. 23. „ missions to, p. 23. „ trade with, p. 23. " Thornton's Gazetteer of India," p. 22. Tibet (see "Thibet"). Tigris, p. 19. " Times, The," pp. 14, 24. „ laudatory notice of the East India Company, p. 27. Tippoo Saib (or Sultan), pp. 11, 12, 15. „ „ death of, p. 15. „ „ Treaties with, p. 11. Titles of the East India Company, pp. 5, 6. „ of the King of Oude to cease at his death, p. 24. Toshakana : when a Government servant is allowed to accept a present from a Native, its value must be placed in the Government Treasury for return present, p. 8. Tounghoo, Deputy Commissioner of, p. 24. Tower of London, Constable of, p. 20. Trade, not so important as revenue, and civil and military policy, p. 6. „ pp. 6, 15. „ between India and China, pp^ 6, 15. „ „ „ „ via Burmah, p. 24. „ „ „ „ Thibet, p. 23. „ Company's monopoly aboUshed, p. 15. „ „ servants prohibited from private, p. 8. „ increased by the opening of the Suez Canal, p. 22. Translations of Treaties, p. 19. Treasure (and see " Prize money "), pp. 5, 12. Treasurer, The Lord High (Godolphin), p. 7. Treaties, engagements, conventions, agreements, sunnuds, and firmans : „ Aitchison's, p, 5. „ „ list, showing what Native States are forbidden to make Treaties with Foreign Powers without Company's sanction, p. 5. „ between Native Chiefs guaranteed by the Company, p. 12. „ first, p. 5. „ hostages for fulfilment of, p. 11. „ most favoured nation clause, p. 17. „ of Bassein, p. 15. ,, personal, pp. 8, 23. „ whether binding according to Native or English version ? Both versions to be always sent home, p. 19. „ with Acheen, p. 5. „ „ Affghanistan (see " Treaty with Cabul "). „ „ Borneo, pp. 6, 21. „ „ Burmah, pp. 9, 18. „ „ Cabul (Dost Mahomed of), p. 23. „ „ 'Nabob of the Carnatic, pp. 11, 23. „ „ „ „ Azeem-ood-Dowlah, p. 23. „ „ „ Surat, p. 13. „ „ minor Chiefs of Ceylon, p. 15. „ „ Denmark : ceding Danish possessions in India to the Company, pp. 20, 21. „ „ „ „ Java to, p. 16. „ » „ none permitting importation of opium and saltpetre, p. 15. „ „ France : Salt, opium, and saltpetre, p. 15. „ „ His Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, pp. 8, 11, 12. „ „ the Karens (species of), p. 24. „ „ Khakhyens, „ p. 24. „ „ the Mahrattas at Salbye, p. 11. „ „ Mysore (and see Partition and Tripartite Treaties), pp. 13, 18, 19. 16148. N 50 Treaties, &c — continued „ with Nawab Nazim of Bengal, p. 8. „ „ Nepal, p. 15. „ „ Netherlands India, making interchanges of territories, p. 17. „ between Vizier of Oude and the Rohilla Chief, p. 12. „ King of Oude will not take an allowance under, p. 23. „ Partition Treaty of Mysore, p. 12. „ Persia, p. 5. „ Portugal, pp. 5, 17. „ „ alleged opium, p. 17. „ Punjab, p. 21. „ Salt, opium, and saltpetre, with France (see above). „ Tripartite at Poona, the English, the Peishwa, and the Nizam, against Tippoo Saib, p. 11. Trial of Elahi Buksh, Wahabee, p. 22. „ Shahdadad Khan and Ameer Ali, Wahabees, p. 23. „ the King of Delhi, p. 25. „ Warren Hastings, p. 11. Tribute paid by Mysore Maharajah, p. 13. Trimbukjee Anglia, pp. 16, 17. Tripartite Treaty against Tippoo Saib, p. 11. Troops, Native : mutiny of, pp. 7, 15, 24, 25. Trustees, Official, in India, p. 14. . Turbans, Sepoys ; Vellore mutiny attributed to alteration in, p. 15. Turkey, pp. 9, 10. „ lirmap, p. 19. Turkish Arabia, Political Agent, pp. 20, 22. ,i » PP- 9, 19- Turner, Lieutenant, p. 23. Turton, Sir Thomas : his defalcations and death, p. 13. Twenty-four Pergunnahs, p. 7. u. Umballah, p. 23. Unclaimed Estates in India (see " E "). United Company of Merchants, trading to the East Indies, p. 6. „ „ of England, trading to the East Indies, p. Universities established at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, p. 24. Vans- Agnew, Mr., murder of, p. 21. Vellore, p. 12. „ mutiny and massacre of, p. 15. Venice, p. 10. „ Convent of St. Lazare at, pp. 9, 10. Village settlements, pp. 11, 12. „ headman, pp. 11, 12. Vivian, General Sir Robert, G.C.B., p. 25. Votes of proprietors of East India Stock, number regulated by amount of stock held, pp. 8 9. w. Wahabee conspiracy at Patna, p. 22. „ „ „ Lord Dalhousie's Minutes on, p. 22. „ trials, p. 22. Warren Hastings (see " H "). Wars, pp. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24. Watson, Admiral, p. 7. Wellesley, Marquis, p. 12. „ Colonel (afterwards Major-General Sir Arthur), pp. 12, 14, 15, 18. Wellington, The Duke of, pp. 12, 18. West Indies, p. 5. Westminster Abbey : Funeral of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, G.C.S.I., K.C.B., in, p. 20. Hall, p. 11. Wheeler, General Sir Hugh, pp. 24, 25. Whish, General, p. 21. William III., King, p. 6. Wills, pp. 9, 10. Wilson, Right Reverend Daniel, Bishop of Calcutta, death of, p. 25. Women and children massacred at Cawnpore by Nana Sahib, of Bithoor, pp. 17, 25. 51 Wood dealers in France, p. 17. Wyburd, Lieutenant, alleged death, p. 22, „ „ „ detention at Kokan, p. 22. „ „ his brother-in-law, Mr. Furrell, p. 22. Y York, His Royal Highness the Duke of, p. 5. Zemindars, pp. 11, 12. Zemindary Settlement, p. 11. 3 9002 01326 6870 > >x vwyy m . mm »s» ivy p