Note F — A REPORT, &c. &c.

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."