कर्नल फेर यांच्या गैरवर्तनाचा योग्य परिणाम: (१२३ ) कर्नल फेर यांस अवेळीं काढण्यांत आलें असें म्हणण्यांत आले आहे. परंतु क- नेल फेर यांचें स्वतःचें वर्तन, मुंबईसरकारचें त्याजकडे अपूर्ण लक्ष, आणि झालेल्या replace him at once by another officer. The Governor-General in Council does not consider it necessary to enter into the particulars of those proceedings. It is suf- ficient to say that the Bombay Government found it necessary in your letter No. 26 of 24th August 1874 to call upon Colonel Phayre to explain his apparent dis- regard of their instructions, and that in your letter No. 30 dated 7th September, you informed him that his explanation could not be accepted as satisfactory; that by direction of His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council you intimated to him in your letter No. 25 dated 24th August 1874, that the Bombay Government regretted the strong terms in which he had objected to a proposal of the Gaekwar in one case; you described the closing part of his answer to the Gaekwar in another ease as "most unreasonable;" you expressed "the greatest surprise" at his proceedings in a third case, and you described them as "wholly ignoring" his instructions and calculated "to impede most seriously the cordial co-operation of the minister and yourself "(Colonel Phayre) in carrying out the administrative reforms which it is the sole "object of Government to induce His Highness to effect," and you characterized his proceedings in the cases referred to as "a most serious misappreciation of the actual "position of affairs," and of the line of conduct he had been ordered by the Govern-. ment of India and the Government of Bombay to pursue ; and that in your letter No.. 29 dated 7th September, Colonel Phayre's explanations were pronounced unsatisfac-. tory, and the opinion was repeated that he was "ignoring the express orders of the "Government of India." But these and other circumstances were not reported to. the Government of India. They were not alluded to in your letter No. 31 dated 17th September, which, purported to be a report of the proceedings of His Highness the Gaekwar conse- quent on the receipt of the Viceroy's letter of 25th July. Nor were they reported in your letter No. 6137, dated 22nd October, in reply to my letter of 6th October, in which Colonel Phayre's reports of his proceedings subsequent to the receipt of the orders of 25th July were called for. They were not submitted with your letter No.. 6159, dated 23rd October, which purported with reference to your letter of 17th September to forward a letter from the Resident with translations of communica-. tions made to and received from the Durbar consequent on the decision of His Ex-. cellency the Viceroy in Council on the Baroda Commission Report. It was only on 19th November, in answer to my telegram of 11th November in which copies of all correspondence were called for, that full information was furnished to His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. Four letters were received here on 23rd November and the orders for Colonel Phayre's removal were issued on the 25th. The Governor-General in Council considers that the Bombay Government, who. in July were of opinion that a change in the Residency at Baroda was expedient, ought in August, when they found it necessary to censure Colonel Phayre for dis- obedience of orders, to have at once recommended his removal. Had they done so, they would have received the cordial support of the Governor-General in Council. But whether they thought a change to be necessary or not, it was their manifest duty to have reported at once that Colonel Phayre's proceedings had not justified the confi- dence which the Government of India placed in him. The orders issued and the policy prescribed for Colonel Phayre's guidance were those of the Government of India, and the Governor-General in Council ought not to have been kept in ignorance of the fact that his orders had been disobeyed, his policy misundersood, and his name improperly introduced in discussions between the Resident and the Gaekwar. Had the circum- stances referred to been brought to notice at the time they ought to have been, Colonel Phayre would have been at once removed from office, before the case became compli-.
