HISTORY OP SIKHIM AND ITS RULEES. 21 



enforced conditions should be sanctioned by Government. Foiled by 

 the declaration that whatever concessions might be extorted then 

 would not be confirmed by Government, and intimidated by the 

 declaration of the Governor-General that the Maharaja's head should 

 answer for it if a hair of the head of Dr. Campbell or Dr. Hooker 

 were hurt, the Sikhimese eventually released the prisoners on 

 24th December 1849. 



In February 1850 an avenging force crossed the Great Rungeet 

 river into Sikhim. The expedition resulted in the stoppage of the 

 annual grant of Rs. 6,000 enjoyed by the Maharaja, the annexation 

 of the Sikhim Terai, and of the portion of the Sikhim hills bounded 

 by the Rummam river on the north, the Great Rungeet and the Tista 

 on the east, and by the Nepal frontier on the west. This new 

 territory was put under the management of the Superintendent of 

 Darjeeling; the Dewan was ostensibly dismissed from office, and for 

 some years matters proceeded smoothly and well between Sikhim and 

 our Government. But this man having worked his way into power 

 again through his wife, an illegitimate daughter of the Maharaja, the 

 kidnapping of our subjects was resumed without the possibility of 

 obtaining redress. In April and May 1860 two aggravated cases of 

 kidnapping were reported to Government. All ordinary efforts to 

 procure reparation having failed, the Governor-General in Council 

 resolved to occupy the territory of the Maharaja lying to the north of 

 the Rummam river and to the west of the Great Rungeet, and to retain 

 it until our subjects were restored, the offenders given up, and security 

 obtained against a recurrence of similar offences. On the 1st Novem- 

 ber 1860 the Superintendent of Darjeeling crossed the Rummam with 

 a small force, and advanced as far as Rinchingpung. But he was 

 eventually forced to fall back on Darjeeling. A stronger force was 

 then despatched under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Gawler, 

 accompanied by the Hon'ble Ashley Eden as Envoy and Special 

 Commissioner. The force advanced to the Tista, when the Sikhimese 

 acceded to the terms dictated by the Governor-General, and on the 

 28th of March 1861 a new treaty, consisting of twenty-three articles, 

 was concluded by the Envoy with Maharaja Sikyong Namgyal, as 

 his father, Blaharaja Cho-phoe Namgyd, though alive and in Chumbi, 

 was afraid to come over. Cho-phoe Namgy^ died in 1863. 



SRID-SKYONG-rNAM-rGYAL 



(Sikhyong Namgyd) was born in 1819, and practically became 

 Raja in 1861, though his father did not die until two years later. 



The annual allowance of Rs. 6,000 forfeited in 1850 was in 1862 

 restored, as an act of grace, to the ruling Maharaja Sikyong Namgy^ : 



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