A report of Major Hart's case, of rice-frauds, near SeringapatamInglis, W. H.
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A report of Major Hart's case, of rice-frauds, near Seringapatam
Inglis, W. H.
East India Company; Hart, George Vaughan, 1752-1832
So, in Mr. Sherson's case, there has been published an unsigned or
anonymous Report of it, by a Mr. Halhed, one of the clerks in the
India-House, whose error "was not his first" of the kind, yet whose
Report was ordered, it has confidently been asserted, by only some one
or two of the whole Court of Directors. In Mr. Sherson's case again the
Board of Controul has compelled the erasure, from a despatch of the
Court of Directors, of a paragraph recommendatory of an investigation
into the conduct (on this Mr. Sherson's trial) of no less a person than
Sir Francis Macnaghten, the _second_ of three Judges, of whom the
_third_ is almost as much concerned as Sir Francis himself.
Nor let these parallels be thought to beg the question, since they might
readily have been extended; and since Major Hart's case would prove
itself in Courts of Law, whether by artful confessions, or by other and
better description of testimony. Unhappily, however, the period for this
is expired.
W. H. INGLIS.
3, Mincing-lane.
THE END.
MARCHANT, Printer,
Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street.
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