Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A REPORT OF MAJOR HART'S CASE, OF Rice-Frauds, NEAR SERINGAPATAM, _WITH NOTES_; AND AN APPENDIX, ADDRESSED TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST-INDIA STOCK. BY W. H. INGLIS, AUTHOR OF THE ONLY REPORT NOT ANONYMOUS, OF MR. SHERSON's CASE AND TRIAL AT MADRAS, ALSO FOR RICE-FRAUDS. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY J. M. RICHARDSON, 23, CORNHILL, OPPOSITE THE ROYAL EXCHANGE; AND J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY. 1818. MARCHANT, Printer, Ingram-Court, London. A REPORT, _&c. &c._ Were any apology necessary for this Report, a sufficient one would be where Major Hart says, "When I add that Major-general Macaulay was my junior officer; that, in consequence of my dismission, he succeeded to the very regiment which, at this hour, I should have otherwise commanded, and became a general officer so much sooner by my dismission; I am satisfied that the Honourable Court (of Directors) will think his conduct a _most material_ feature in the future consideration of my case."--India-House-Papers, p. 362. Another instance of Major Hart's sinister attack is, where Major-general Macaulay has replied to it, saying, "There remains a farther slanderous insinuation of Major Hart's, that I think myself bound to notice. He has charged upon me, as a leading motive in the censure of his conduct, a settled design of placing myself in the command of the fortress of Palamcottah, and of the forces in the field in Tinnevelly, to his exclusion! This strange charge he more than once gave distinct hints of to myself. But he made it directly in the course of his last visit to me, in June 1815, when he behaved so coarsely. It will, I have little doubt, seem somewhat strange, even to your Lordship, (Harris, the commander-in-chief,) but so it is, that to this hour I do not know to whom I owe that command. _I not only never made application directly or indirectly for it, but the idea of applying for it never once entered my mind._--Papers, p. 388.