We now trust to have amply shown why Lord Harris thought, 1st, that "it was not the loss of rice in the department of the Commissary of Grain alone, that so seriously affected the general store of provision for the army;[F] but, 2dly, that infinitely more extensive and entirely unexpected deficiency, which was discovered in the quantity carried by bullocks, hired in the Ceded Districts, under the authority of Lieutenant-Colonel Read, and of which _Captain Macleod_ was in the general superintendance. [F] In the debate on the Mandamus Papers, a proprietor of stock asks, "What did Lord Ellenborough say? Did he say, that what was done was conclusive evidence of any bargain having been made, or any price being charged? No; Lord Ellenborough said,--No; he is ordered to enter it as an item of account; but that does not give it the character of having been purchased for the public. He acquiesces in the direction to enter it; but it ought to be considered as if he had not so entered and as if it stood in its original situation." But we must ask, what would Lord Ellenborough have said, had his lordship been informed that the fraud was not solely in Major Hart's grain, but, also, in that of Captain Macleod, and who, _previously to the discovery of the fraud_, had been ordered, by Lord Harris, to enter, that is, to retain his benjarries, now called, private grain, for "the _public_ service." Of Major Hart's grain, it can equally be observed, that this had also been publicly returned in Captain Macleod's Report, which Report has been stated to close thus: "_it is supposed_ Major Hart has 7000 bullock-loads, which would be ten seers each to 30,000 men. (Signed) William Macleod, Superintendant of Supplies." Upon this second and last of our own two points of grand doubt, we shall offer some further extracts, by which it will be perceived that Major Hart's head people were ordered back to the Ceded Districts, in company with Captain Macleod's benjarries, that is, were ordered back to those Districts, not before, but immediately upon the discovery of the fraud, and, as it were, in consequence of it.