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2 _ the permanent prosperity of the Raj will be best promoted by an adherence to the
3 course, which the wisdom of the Marquess Wellesley established for a crisis like the
4 present. ,
5 . (True Copy).
6 (Signed) 4H. T. PRINSEP,
7 Secy* to the Governor General.
8 (A True Copy)
9 (Signed) H. CHAMIER,
10 - 7° _ Chief Secretary.
11 This letter was delivered by the Resident when the Rajah was cele-
12 brafing one of the preat Hindu festivals, He surrendered his authority
13 without a struggle or a murmur, and the Commission at once entered
14 upon the charge of all the Departments of the Government.
15 At this period the Mysore Residency was in immediate subordination
16 to the Government of Madras; and when the Governor General had
17 taken the great step of directing the assumption of the country by a
18 Board of two Commissioners, one of whom in the first instance was chosen
19 by himself, he left the nomination of the other, and the details of the
20 administration to the Governor of Fort St. George ; providing, how-
21 ever, that the “agency under these should be exclusively Native ; in-
22 “ deed that the existing Native institutions should be carefully main-
23 “ tained.”* The duties of the Commissioners were stated to be such |
24 as were discharged by the Board of Revenue an@ Court of Sudder
25 Adawlut at the Presidency, and the Resident was to continue in charge
26 of the Political relations of the Rajah and his family with the British
27 Government. The Rajah himself was to remain for the present in
28 Mysore, but his continued residence in the country was to “ depend on
29 * future circumstances which his own conduct could alone determine.”
30 It was soon found when the new machine was set in motion, that the
31 views and proceedings of the Madras Government were incompatible
32 with the objects of the Governor General ; that a purely Native Agency
33 that was moderately trustworthy could not be got together in such a
34 - hot-bed of intrigue and corruption as Mysore had long become ; and
35 that two European Commissioners, though honorable and enlightened
36 * This view was subsequently confirmed by the Court of Directors, in their Letter of the
37 25th September 1835, in which it is stated that they were “ desirous of adhering as far aa
38 * can be done to the Native usage, and not to introduce « system which cannot be worked
39 “ hereafter by Native Agency.”