§ MR. HUMEasked the noble Lord whether it was correct that the Court of Directors of the East India Company, or the Secret Committee of that court, had, with the sanction of Her Majesty's Government, sent orders to take possession of the territory of the late Rajah of Sattara, and thereby to depose the legal and the adopted heirs of the territories guaranteed by solemn treaty with the East India Company to them and their heirs for ever?
§ Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply, said it was true that the Directors of the East India Company, and the members of the Board of Control, had sent out despatches desiring that the territory of the late Rajah of Sattara should be resumed by the Government. It was not true, however, that any person had been deposed, because there was no person who had a right to the territory.