कर्नल फेर यांस विषप्रयोग केल्याबद्दलची चौकशी. ( १९७) कारणे दाखचिलीं आहेत. ते ह्मणतात की, आह्मी पेशव्यांच्या माजी राजधानीती- ल रहाणारे आहोत, आणि बडोदा, इंदूर, ग्वाल्हेर, ही राज्ये मराठ्यांनी एक जुटा- ने जीं राज्य काबीज केली त्यांपैकी असल्यामुळे, त्यांचा व आमचा समवाय संबंध असून, त्यांच्या हितात आमचें हित आहे. ह्या संस्थानांत आमच्या देश बांधवांस नाना प्रकारच्या चाकऱ्या असून त्या संस्थानात मोठमोठें दानधर्म होत असल्यामुळे त्यांच्या राज्यांत आमच्या देशबांधवांपैकी पुष्कळ लोक घरंदाज होऊन राहिले आहे. त. याकरता त्या राज्याची भरभराटी व वृद्धी असणे यांत आमचा वाटा आहे. त्यांतही बडोद्याचे राज्य सर्वाहून जुनें, धनसंपन्न आणि जवळ असल्यामुळे त्याविष- यीं आह्मास जास्त कळकळ असणे हे स्वाभाविक आहे. सन १८५७ च्या सालांत ज्या दुःखदायक गोष्टी घडून आल्या त्यावरून अ से सिद्ध झाले आहे कीं, देशी राज्याची मजबुती तीच इंग्रजाच्या राज्याची मजबु- अ.णि इंग्रज सरकारचें राज्य चिरकाळ रहावें अशी आह्मा लोकांची इच्छा आहे. ह्मणून देशी राज्याच्या संरक्षणास्तव आम्हांस आपल्यास अर्ज करण्याची अ वश्यकता माप्त झाली आहे. ती. तिसऱ्या कलमांत त्यांनीं राजकुलोत्पन्न पुरुषांची सर्व साधारण स्थीति कशी अ सते याविषयीं सांगितले आहे. सत्ता व संपत्ति जेथें असते तेथें चंचलता, व अशा- which maintain in their various services and by means of their large charities, a consi- derable number of their fellowcontrymen who have settled in those parts. Of these States the Gaeckwad's king lon as being the oldest, richest and nearest, has always been regarded as having the greatest claim upon the affection of the people. It is in on account of this relationship that your Memorialists have been moved to submit the following representation for the kind consideration of your Excellency in Council. Your Memorialists believe that your Excellency is aware of the fact that the stability of British rule is bound up with the stability of Native States a proposition that was clearly established by the painful events of 1857; as Native states which have large territories to stake in case they do anything likely to be disapproved by the paramount power, take care to act in allegiance to the British rule and thus set an example of loyalty to the common people. In view of this your Memorialists in making this representation are also moved by feelings of loyalty and desire to see the stability of the British rule in India perpetuated. 3. Your Excellency's Government is aware of the manners of princes of the royal blood in all countries. Power and wealth are necessarily attended with fickle- ness and similar weaknesses. But in the case of Native princes, particularly such political circumstances have existed as make them weak-minded men of narrow views, who have much leisure and means of luxury and whose Sirdars and subjects cannot exercise legitimate check from the overawing presence of British Residents. In the case of Baroda one aggravating circumstance requires to be added. The different Residents who had preceeded Colonel Phayre failed to discharge their duties by not inspiring the Baroda princes with proper respect for the advice of British officers and by withholding advice or rather by encouraging the princes to act as they pleased, in as much as they submitted fsvourable reports to Government from time to time. The outcome of this conduct of British Residents is that your Excellency's Govern- ment has had the necessity of suspending a prince from the exercise of power and of putting him on trial before a Court of justice.
