W. H. Inglis

“ Sherson himself.' Even in this case of Major Hart there is what is not wholly dissimilar to bribery; namely, where the conicopoly replies, 'that as he (Enom Beg) would probably be sent for by the Committee sitting near the general's [Pg 23] tent, he (the conicopoly) desired him to keep favour on him.' The frequent occurrence among native Indians of the word lies is to be here regarded as an Anglo-Orientalism. It is to the probability of Enom Beg and his fellow-soldiers' testimonies over those of Major Hart and Captain Macleod's head people, that attention shall safely be paid. ”

“ The strictest economy is, therefore, [Pg 6] to be observed in every expense attending this department; and the disbursements and accounts of the Commissary are to be attested on honour, as prescribed in the forms annexed to these Regulations.—Papers, p. 17.
And the mighty Board of Controul, besides allowing Major Hart to hold private grain, and therefore to reap the attendant profit on it with perfect security, next considers this both as another question and as not another question. ”

“ Relative to the benjarries and maistries of Captain Macleod, as well as to Major Hart's head people, we must differ from the Committee of Inquiry, where saying that "a further examination of persons of those descriptions will not tend to afford any new information on the subject." ”

“ The Board continues "this, and the circumstance of his silence, from the 16th to the [Pg 7] 22d of April, appear to us the only points of doubt in the whole case, and a conduct doubtful only on two such points does not, in our contemplation, warrant the sentence [C] that has been passed upon it, with the consequences to his fortune and honour to which it has led." Papers, p. 232.
But, "in our contemplation" of this "whole case," there are yet to be noticed other two grand points of doubt. ”

“ Nor is Lord Harris here alluding towards the whole, but rather to the close of Captain Macleod's Report, where it is stated that "the private and public rice would feed 30,000 men for thirty-three (or, as Lord Harris says, thirty-six) days, exclusive of Major Hart's department. It is supposed Major Hart has 7000 bullock-loads, which would be ten seers each to 30,000 men. ”

“ He who fights and runs away,
Lives to fight another day.
Nor can Major Hart forget where Major-General Macaulay states, "Report—to which, however, I can scarce give credit—assigns this disgraceful production to the pen of a noted Barrister. Be that as it may, Major Hart stands fully (be this as it may, equally fully) responsible." Major-General Macaulay's official statement is, "Major Hart addressed a letter to the Court of Directors, dated the 22d of last month: that libellous letter has not yet been printed, by order of the [Pg 26] Court of Directors, for the use of the Proprietors ”

“ Our inference is, what others have frequently drawn in this case, that there was always a plenty rather than ever any scarcity of grain. [G]
Finally, we are to produce Major Hart's dubash, the already mentioned Sadashevah Moodiliar, as tampering among other of Major Hart's head people, with Subidar Enom Beg, during the intervals of this [Pg 19] native soldier's examination by the Committee of Inquiry. ”