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.

Asked by the Committee of Inquiry, "under whose charge was your rice
brought forward on the march, and placed at the ground of encampment?"
Major Hart replies, "under head people employed by myself, whom I
discharged and (though discharged, yet) sent to the Carnatic with
_General Floyd's_ detachment." In like manner, Captain Macleod states,
in one of his letters to government, that "Sechiram joined the army at
Kellamungulum and remained with it till the march of _General Floyd's_
division towards Caveriporam, when all the public and benjarries cattle,
which had at that time survived the campaign, were sent from the army."
Papers, p. 77. And under date of 18th April, Lord Harris having
confirmed that "_Major-General Floyd_, with all the cavalry and three
battalions of Native Infantry, marches to-morrow morning towards
Caveriporam to meet Colonel Read, and escort his benjarries to camp,"
explains th