the instability of friendships. The people of whom we speak know but of two characters in the world-a good man and a wicked man. When they discovered a single vice or failing in one whom they had placed in the former class, they instantly transfer him to the latter, and cut the connection They generally add to this injustice by attributing the mistake to the culprit's hypocrisy instead of to their own want of discernment. We department of the tragic drama. Let him not try Othello he would fail, we think, in the development of overmastering emotion. His conception of the part of Iago was strong and true, and his execution as firm and spirited as could be desired. He appeared to have no misgivings on the stage, but to have thoroughly conquered all doubts in the closet. This is just as it should be. As, like lago himself, we are "nothing if not critical," and In pursuing these more general reflections we had always fancy that our praise is the more acceptable for almost forgotten the performance of Monday evenot being indiscriminate, we may observe, that, excellent ning. We have not yet concluded our remarks upon there were two or three slight details which we thought as was the general outline of our amateur's representation, the personator of Othello, but we must be more brief in this part of our notice than we originally capable of improvement. His manner was at times a intended. A contemporary insists that this gentleman is little too undisguisedly villainous. He had an air of an imitator not of Kean but of Kemble. If our Amateur Newgate about him. He looked like a jail-bird. The really takes the latter for his model he imitates him "most appellation of Honest Iago sounded oddly when applied abominably," and falls by an odd fatality into the directly to a man sneaking into the room with a slow, cautious opposite style of a greater though less perfect actor. gait and a sinister expression of blended fear and malice. keep however, to our first opinion. But whether Kean It interfered with our respect for Othello, who began to or Kemble be the object of his imitation, this is certain look too much like a gull. This was Young's mistake that he bears a much closer resemblance to the former in the same part. He wore too black a brow-the blackthan to the classical and judicious Kemble, the Virgil of ness should have appeared in his deeds and not his looks, actors, of whom Kean (certainly not in simplicity, but when he was in the presence of those against whose perhaps in power,) was the Homer. We do not main-peace he was plotting and before whom he had a certain tain that he copies Kean in the way in which we have character to support. There is an anecdote in some seen the great actor's son imitate his father-by a mimicry theatrical publication of the performance of Cooke in of all his characteristic movements, crowded into a single this character. It is said that a man in the gallery exclaimed what a villain! and called for his expulsion, It passage. The long pause-the frequent start-the sarcastic smile--the wild convulsive laugh-the sudden is perhaps difficult to say whether this was a compliment change of voice from the full roar of passion to the light of the fact that Shakspeare makes Iago a general deor a condemnation. The actor should never lose sight easy tones of familiar dialogue-the low hurried mutterings of suppressed agitation-the hasty strides-the rude ceiver, and that it would consequently be wrong to put tugs at his unoffending garments-the play of the fingers a Cain-mark upon his forehead. It must have been an on the folded arms-the slow patting of the breast, and ever-present consciousness of this truth that caused Kean the vice-like grasp of the forehead;-all these man- this objection to his Iago is made by Hazlitt; for we do to err on the other side, by making him too gay; at least nerisms, sometimes electrically effective, and some. times absolutely offensive, were turned by the younger not speak of Kean's performance in that part from our own Kean into a ludicrous caricature. It is not, indeed, personal knowlege. On the other hand, however, we think that it is too generally forgotten in criticisms upon in this style that our Amateur imitates a man genius, who, though the most powerful of modern actors, audience are in one sense of the phrase behind the scenes. the Drama, that in all representations on the stage the is also the most dangerous model that an histrionic aspirant could select for study. Many of Kean's peculiarities They are mere lookers-on, and see all the secret springs of manner are traceable in this gentleman's performance and movements. They have a key to each character. of impassionate parts, but they are not glaring or offen-As lago proceeds in his demoniacal work, his villainy sive, and he does not seem to have confounded that ac-betrayed into a very unreasonable surprize that it is not is so palpaple to the audience that they are apt to be tor's idiosyncrasies with his excellencies. equally evident to the whole of the Dramatis Personæ. But making every allowance on this account, we still think that our Amateur's Iago was occasionally, not always, a little too grave and fiend-like in his manner. of It would take up too much space to criticise minutely the delivery of the many celebrated passages in the part of Othello which pleased us or disappointed us. Amongst those which most gratified us, was the Moor's beautiful farewell to "the plumed troop and the big wars that make ambition virtue," and that most natural burst of rage with which after this lament over his forlorn and comfortless condition he turns on his tormentor like a baited lion, and, seizing him by the throat, insists upon his relieving him from the rack of doubt. The simple exclamation-Ha! in an earlier scene when the poison of jealousy first penetrates his heart, was absolutely thrilling. That brief but most expressive iteration too, with which he answers Iago's covert sneer-I see this hath a little dashed your spirtis. Not a jot, not a jot was also admirably given. But by far the finest and most successful of his efforts was that exclamation which follows his gentle wife's passionate question as to how he can deem her false. O Desdemona !-away! away! away! What a world of love and agony and tender retrospection are condensed into that single line! The Othello was admirably supported by the Iago of the gentleman who sometime ago personated Rashleigh Osbaldistone. He more than fulfilled our most favorable anticipations. His excellence in comedy and farce is well known, but we somewhat doubted his powers in the tragic line; and we never dreamed that he could so ably sustain the difficult part of lago. We were far from expecting an entire failure, but little did we expect such great success. It was his very best performance on the Chowringhee Boards. And yet, with all this praise we must caution him against attempting a differen We have already praised the very great improvement Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon The emphasis was placed on the word angry,-of course it is the personal pronoun he that should have been made emphatic. There was another error of which the same gentleman was guilty, and which demands particular notice, because it is too common amongst amateur actors. When he described Cassio's dream he accompanied the words " and then did kiss me hard, as if he plucked up kisses by the root, that grew upon my lips", with an explanatory plucking motion of his hand to and from h's lips. In the first place Cassio was not supposed to pluck kisses with his hand, but with his lips, and in the second, even if the manual explication had been more correct, it would still have been unnecessary and injudicious. Such corporeal illustrations do better in farce than tragedy. The gentleman who represented Othello was guilty of several similar_errors and is too much inclined to accompany a mere feeling or sentiment with an attempt at descriptive action. To return to our pleasant office of praise,it is diffieult to say which were the points in the part of Iago that were most effective. There were so many admirable hits that we are puzzled which to fix upon for particular commendation. It is a well deserved praise, however, to say that the best parts of the dialogue always told the best. He never disappointed us in the favourite passares; and in some very difficult speeches he gave the text with such perfect truth and propriety that he would have balked the most captious critic. first confused and undefined, and the course of events became more fearful than he had expected. Crime after crime entailed the necessity of still deeper horrors, and he became himself involved in a hideous labyrinth of his own creating. The total destruction of his victims was at first as little contemplated as his own. Had a pausa in his career been consistent with his own safety there is no reason to suppose that he would have desired so dreadful a consummation of his revenge. The amateur who represented the angry father of "The gentle lady married to the Moor" Our "Proteus," as he is called, made an excellent It has been thought that the character of Iago is in Cassio, though he was still affected by the illness for some degree unnatural, inasmuch as there is not a suffici- which the play had been postponed. His humorous ent motive for his atrocious conduct. Perhaps this drunkenness-the shock received from the sudden ap objection is not entirely unfounded. Hazlitt pronounces pearance of his general, which, though it at first increas it more nice than wise. That writer was a profounded the stupefaction of his mind, at last restored him to and subtle critic, when he could bring himself to be his sober senses and to bitter shame-and his pathetic quite impartial. He was at other times either a fierce lament over the loss of his reputation, were all done hater or an equally fierce admirer. With respect to his ample justice to by this favorite and accomplished AmaShaksperian creed he was a thorough bigot, and seemed teur. We were not so well pleased with his cries in the to think the poet as infallible as the Pope. But the scene in which he is wounded by Iago. They were unsun of that mighty genius, glorious and magnificent worthy of a brave soldier. The text, however, is partly as it is, has far more spots upon its disk than many lumi- in fault in this instance. naries of lesser magnitude and brightness. Few great poets could so little justify an unqualified admiration. We are far from maintaining that the character of Iago is actually or altogether unnatural, but we think that even Shakspeare himself had some misgivings on this score and had anticipated the very objection which Hazlitt combats. It was on this account perhaps that he has made lago express a suspicion that both the Moor and Cassio had dishonored him as a husband. The things seems improbable in itself, and is so awkwardly introduced and has so little effect that it looks very like an after-thought or interpolation. It is forgotten as soon as mentioned. The desire of obtaining Cassio's place and of revenging himself on the Moore for his selection of that officer in preference to himself, does not seem a sufficient motive for his fiendish machiavelism. Besides it seems unlikely that such a cautious and clear-minded observer of human nature as Iago should not have reflected that to succeed in proving Desdemona faithless would be to make Othello fancy himself "A fixed figure for the time of Scorn exhibited considerable spirit. His ungracious speech on giving up his daughter to Othello, in the presence of the Senate, was particularly good. We only regretted, in some of the other passages in his part, a certain harshness of intonation, and an abruptness of action and delivery, that we think might be easily corrected. The debutant who took the part of Roderigo promises pretty well. At present he has not got over the feeling of a novice that to act is task-work. As soon as the last words of his speeches dropped from his tongue, his eyes and his hands dropped also, as if they had no more to do. Increased confidence and a greater attention to his by-play may much improve him. Some of his points were deservedly applauded. Mrs. Leach as Desdemona was not seen to so much advantage as usual. Her grief wants dignity. It is not womanly, but child-like. Her tender admiration and confiding love in the early scenes were delicately and And to deprive him of that precious charm in which he beautifully true. Mrs. Francis must not be passed over. had "garnered up his heart," Where either he must live, or bear no life." He must have known that he could not have long continued an agreeable object to Othello's eye. "The first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office." We must, however, somewhat qualify these objections by remembering that Iago did not himself see his own way with perfect clearness and precision. His plans were at There was genuine feeling in her delivery of the noble and indignant out-breaks against the Moor and her husband in the concluding scene. Upon the whole we were much gratified with the style in which the Tragedy of Othello was got up on this occa sion; and we hope it will not be long before we see another of Shakspeare's Plays, represented on the Chowringhee Boards.-ED. CAL. LIT. GAZ. THE UNCOVENANTED SERVANTS' PETITION. THE HON'BLE SIR C. T. METCALFE, Bt. the several offices of Government at MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH.-That your Memorialists have always been paid in sicca rupees agreeably to the rates at which their salaries were fixed in that currency until the bills and abstracts came under audit for the month of September last. That when the bills and abstracts for September were presented for audit, they were passed not in sicca rupees as usual, but in Company's rupees at the rate of one hundred and four and eight annas of such intended currency, although the XVIIth Act of the GovernorGeneral of India in Legislative Council, expressly declares that the Company's rupee shall be only of the sicca rupee, and consequently that one hundred sicca rupees shall be held to be equivalent to one hundred and six rupees ten annas and eight pie of the new coinage about to be issued. to the recent change in the mode of drawing up the Your Memorialists did not contemplate with reference abstracts for the pay of the uncovenanted servants in sonat rupees instead of siccas, that they, who at the time the measure was carried into effect, and since have received the full amount of their salaries in sicca rupees, would ever be subjected to deduction on account of a nominal difference in the value of the rupee. Their salaries were certainly rated in the bills at 194-8 per centum in sonat rupees; but they have invariably received one hundred sicca rupees for the 104-8 sonat rupees, and any alterations under the new system of filling up all vacancies by allowing so many sonat rupees instead of siccas, have hitherto invariably affected only new situations or parties bettered by increased allowances. Your Memorialists were disposed to conclude that the recent arrangements by which their allowances have without reference to length of service been reduced, be ing at variance with the act of the Legislative Council | Your Memorialists further take this opportunity of had been the consequence of oversight or miscalculation; soliciting the benevolent attention of your Honor in for they are aware that the holders of Public Securities Council to the fact, that no provision is made by the receive their interest at Madras and Bombay in the cur- Government (except in special cases under very peculiar rency of those Presi lencies (the rupees of which cur- circumstances requiring the previous sanction of the rency are declared by IV section of the XVII act to be Court of Directors) for the widows and children of equivalent to the sonat) at 6-8 per cent in addition in ex-uncovenanted servants; and owing to the limited scale change for sicca rupees, (the difference of 2 annas 8 pie upon which the allowances of your Memorialists are per cent. appearing to have been struck off for conve- generally fixed, few are able to subscribe to any Society, nience of account) and they observed that by circular or to lay by the means of support for their families: to the several revenue authorities in the interior issued from the department of account, all persons paying money into the several Treasuries will be required to give the full sum of one hundred and six Company's rupees ten annas and eight pie of the new coinage, in cases in which one hundred sicca rupees are now demandable, and that all transactions with individuals will be conducted upon the same principle. widows and children are consequently often left destitute or wholly dependent. In order to provide a remedy for such distress, and at the same time to support those who after lengthened sevice, or who in an infirm state of health, may desire to retire, but who are not reduced to the utter incapability of further duty, as contemplated by the pension rules, a Committee has been selected from the body of your Memorialists, who are engaged But it is obvious from the orders of the Government upon the preparation of a scheme for providing personal of India in the Financial Department dated 7th Oct. retiring pensions, and pensions for the families of un1835, that you Memorialists have been excluded from covenanted servants; and they respectfully submit that these terms, that there has been no misunderstanding the deduction of 2 rupees 2 annas and 8 pie per centum nor miscalculation in the department of account, and from the salaries of so large a portion of the number will that the Government have really contemplated a reduc-so cripple their present slender means as to render many tion of 2 rupees 2 annas and 8 pie per centum on issue incapable of supporting the endeavours of the Commitof the new coinage, from the salaries of those of their tee for the accomplishment of their object. servants who have hitherto been paid in sicca rupees. Adverting to all the foregoing considerations, your In other words, that whilst your Honor the Governor- Memorialists venture to express the hope, that your HoGeneral of India in Council in the Financial Depart-nour will see fit on the issue of the new coinage to admit ment, values the sicca rupee at 104-8 per centum in such new coinage to them, they will be required by the Act XVII of the Hon'ble the Governor-General of India in Legislative Council, to pay to all parties to whom they are under engagement in sicca rupees (the last currency of the country established by law) at the rate of 106-10 8 of the same coinage. Neither, your Memorialists observe, will their loss be confined to those instances in which they are called upon to fulfil engagements of a date anterior to the XVII Act contracted in sicca rupees-whilst the mercantile community and others independant of the Government are privileged to claim in fulfilment of engagements of the estate, the full legal value of the old coinage; and whilst Government requires such full value themselves in all cases in which they are receivers not payers-the Company's rupee cannot, at any time, acquire such a relative value, as may recompense your Memorialists for the actual loss which they have suffered in receiving the old rupees since the recent orders have come into operation and will eventually have to bear, when the new coinage may become the circulating medium. Your Memorialists respectfully solicit the attention of your Honor to the fact, that reductions, however small the fixed ratio with reference to salaries, do unquestionably bear the more heavily upon individuals receiving very limited allowances, and consequently, that the present measure (by which your Memorialists will suffer a permanent loss of salary) bears the more grievously upon them, as being generally with reference to their station the poorest class of the servants of Government. Your Memorialists therefore earnestly solicit, that your Honor in Council will take the order of the 7th October into your gracious re-consideration, especially as regards a want of conformity between that order and the XVII Act of the Legislative Council of India, and that your Honor in Council will also deign to reflect upon its injurious consequences to your Memorialists, who from being generally on the receipt of small allow ances will suffer considerable inconvenience from the measure; indeed, it is principally on this ground that they have ventured to submit this appeal to the special notice of Government. them to equal terms with the merchant and others who are not dependant, as your Memorialists are upon the state for support, and they trust to the generous and just feelings of your Honour as the Supreme Governor of India, that this their humble appeal will receive your support. And your Memorialists, as in duty bound, shall ever pray. To MR. R. LESLIE AND OTHERS, Uncovenanted Servants of Government. The Memorial addressed by the Uncovenanted Assistants in the employ of the Bengal Government to the Governor General of India in Council, and forwarded to me for presentation by Mr. Leslie on the 23d ultimo, has been this day laid before his Honor in Council, and I am directed to make the following communication in reply. 2d.-The Governor General in Council regrets exceedingly the temporary loss to which the Memorialists Your Petitioners trust that they have by their uniform are subject, in common with all the servants of the diligence and exertion established a claim to the pro-State stationed in Bengal, by the recent change in the tection of Government, and they look to your Honor's currency in which they are paid, but cannot devise any decision upon the present appeal with the anxious hope method by which they can be relieved, consistently with that by restoring to them the portion of their salaries the uniformity which it is necessary to maintain in adwhich has been retrenched, your Honor in Council will justing the pay of the public servants in the new curmaintain the principle which have hitherto guided the rency throughout India. Government of India, and by which existing engagements with incumbents have invariably been respected. 3d.-The loss of which the Memorialists complain by the continuance of a rate of conversion, in the payment 5th. The occurrence of this apparent loss to all who had previously been paid in Bengal was duly considered and found unavoidable. It formed an objection to the proposed change in the currency, but could not be regarded as a sufficient reason for preventing a measure so desirable on other grounds and of such extensive operation. As the loss fell equally on all, whether their pay had been fixed in Calcutta sicca or in sonat rupees, it was felt to be impossible to make any distinction in favor of any particular class. Government contemplates gain by this change, or pro- of public servants, different from the exchange according to intrinsic value between the Calcutta sicca, and the Company's rupees, is an unavoidable consequence of the prior miscalculation of the relative value of the sonat rupee in which the pay of the servants of the state, a comparatively small portion excepted, had become fixed previously to the recent change in the currency. Whatever may have been the cause, a question which it would be useless to enter into, the fact was that while the sonat rupee was calculated as 101 8 to 100 of the Calcutta sicca, the coin representing the sonat rupee was in intrinsic value as 106 10 8 to 100. But all conversion from one coin to the other being at the rate of 104 8 to 109, it followed that when pay fixed in sonat rupees was disbursed in Calcutta siccas, the parties paid received in intrinsic value an advantage of something more than 2 per cent, and when what was fixed in Calcutta sicca rupees was paid in sonats, the parties paid experienced a corresponding loss. Those effects of the erroneous exchange between the Calcutta sieca and the sonat rupees continued up to the present time without complaint. Those who derived from it intrinsic profit had no reason to complain and those who suffered the intrinsic loss found their wants equally well if not better provided for by a larger numerical amount of money than by a small intrinsic superiority of value in an inferior quantity of coin of the same denomination. 4th. When it became necessary in consequence of the introduction of an uniform currency for all India to convert Calcutta sicca rupees, the peculiar currency of Bengal, into sonat or Company's rupees, it was found to be impossible without great confusion to adopt any 7th. For the reasons above explained the Governorother rate of conversion for the payment of public ser- General in Council is compelled, with great regret, to vants than that which had been long established, and it avow, that he sees no feasible means of complying with thence followed, that while the public servants in the the petition of the Memorialists, but he confidently Madras, Bombay, and Agra presidencies were unaffected trusts that the loss of which they complain is only ap by the change and continued to receive precisely the parent or temporary, for there is little doubt, that when same numerical amount and precisely the same intrinsic the momentary anxiety produced by the change in the value, that they before received, those stationed in Ben-currency has subsided, and prices and wages become adgal, where the Calcutta sicca had been current, un-justed according to the new currency, the Memorialists avoidably sustained a loss of something more than 2 per cent. in intrinsic value, while they received a numerical increase at the rate of 4 per cent. The intrinsic loss fell alike on those whose pay was fixed in sonat and on those whose pay was in Calcutta sicca rupees, that is on all who had been paid in the currency of Bengal; and it could not be avoided without increasing the pay of all persons paid in Bengal above that of the same classes in the other presidencies of Madras, Bombay, and Agra, even above what the same persons would receive when liable in the course of duty to be paid in the Presidency of Agra or either of the other Presidencies. will find that the increased numerical amount of their re- By order of the Governor-General of India in Council, SUPREME COURT. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2. CROWN SIDE. In the matter of William Holloway. The Advocate General.--This is a rule obtained by my friend, Mr. Turton, to shew cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not be directed to Colonel Piper, to bring up William Holloway, alleged to be detained at Chinsurah. Permit me first to notice that this application rests entirely on the testimony of Holloway himself, with the exception indeed of the affidavit of Axcell who represents himself to be a shoe-maker at Calcutta. The nature of this imprisonment appears to be the only object of his affidavit, and to a part of it I will now direct your lordships' attention. He says that Holloway received a letter from Lieutenant Green, and having opened it, delivered it to this deponent, saying that it was his intention to proceed to Chinsurah, in obedience to the letter, but that he would do so under a protest that he was a discharged soldier, and that he should have recourse to the civil power for redress. Holloway himself says something on the same subject, in pretty nearly the same words, that in consequence of the letter he is about to surrender himself to Colonel Piper, and that he has stated such to be his intention to Lieutenant Green, under a protest that he is a discharged soldier. Now your lordships see precisely the nature of this imprisonment; here is a letter sent down in consequence of which he repairs twenty miles and surrenders himself, as he says, under a protest. I am not aware that this is the sort of imprisonment to be guarded against by a writ of habeas corpus; it is a high prerogative writ, and I should not have thought that it was intended to interfere with the mere service of a soldier. It is quite clear that the imprisonment complained of is nothing more than the mere service of a soldier at Chinsurah; how he went there is stated in the affidavit, but how he has been treated is not before the court, and how far a writ of habeas corpus is to interfere with that service will be for your lordships to decide. I merely direct your lordships' attention to this point, not mainly relying on it, for there are reasons besides abundantly sufficient to authorize your lordships to discharge this application. I will, therefore, proceed to another point. Holloway lordships "I have availed myself of this letter as if it states that in August 1834, he was ordered to proceed was my own production; I have never for a moment from Berhampore to Calcutta, and there to place himself remonstrated; I have been before the officers of my reunder the orders of Major Hutchinson. Now it is very giment who all believe I am to remain three years in the easy to tell a truth in such a manner as to convey an foundry and that the signature to the paper is mine. And insinuation which is unfounded. It would appear here now, having taken every advantage of the letter that I that he knew nothing of an application from himself in can, I come to the Supreme Court, and say that letter is October 1834, to be so employed, -that he has entirely a forgery; let me now not bear my part of the contract; kept out of sight all his own applications to be employed let me be discharged." I cannot but consider that the in the foundry in 1830, 1831, and down to the period gentleman who furnished my friend with the grounds for just mentioned. He goes on to say that Major Hutchin- this application must have been one of very easy faith, son recommended him to purchase his discharge and he having stated in the same breath that his client has enter into the service of the Company in which he would committed a fraud and practised a deception. I would be promoted to the rank of sergeant. Holloway replied ask, my lords, if this man Holloway, or such a man, it was his wish to purchase his discharge, but that he were a witness in a court of justice in order to prove an would not again enlist as a soldier, and subsequently, it instrument to be a forgery; if such a man admitted that is set forth, he deposited the money required for his dis- he knew of it the day after it was executed, yet he had charge. This will appear to be the plan on which this availed himself of it as if it was genuine, not disputing man then stipulated to go into the foundry in question, it in a single instance until he had gained all he could, and no other plan was proposed to him on that occa- would it be set aside on the testimony of such a witness sion:-that he should be made a sergeant on Rs 30 per who had treated it as genuine and availed himself of it? month. He goes on to say, that he lodged the money I say no jury would believe him and that this man is for his discharge in the hands of Major Hutchinson, and not worthy of credit. He says he wrote to Major Hutthat gentleman, instead of lodging the amount in the chinson, but the latter refused to give him his dicharge Presidency Pay Office, in the name of Captain Vernon, unless he signed the agreement. I grant that if the letter had placed it there in his (Major Hutchinson's) own was forged, the man was not bound to sign the agreement. name, to all of which charge I will give a satisfactory But I would be content to let the matter rest entirely on explanation presently. He then sets forth that Major the total want of credit due to this man. He says Major Hutchinson, in his name, wrote to Colonel Piper an Hutchinson sent for him "and read over the bond or application for a discharge, "without any authority agreement," and on his refusal to sign the bond, ordered whatever from this deponent, and signed this deponent's him to his quarters. Subsequently he went to Colonel name," pledging him to remain at the foundry for three Piper who declined to receive him, and he afterwards years, that he was entirely ignorant of the purport of returned to Calcutta. Denying that he ever stipulated this letter until the following day, when he requested to serve the Honorable Company for three years at Rs 60 the native writer to show him the draft, and found to his per month." Can any mortal man believe this? What surprize" that the said Major Hutchinson had signed was there so fascinating in the appearance of Holloway it." Now here is a charge of as aggravated a nature, that interested every person in his favor? What reason brought against a gentleman of high rank in an honora- could have been alleged to the Commander-in-Chief but ble profession, as can be imagined. It is a direct charge that Holloway might be employed by the Company. of forgery; aud I do say distinctly that either Major The answer to this is by Major Hutchinson himself, and Hutchinson has forged this man's signature, or that this is contained in the affidavit now in my hand. He says man has committed perjury and ought to sustain the that in October 1830, he received a letter from Hollopunishment. Which is guilty we shall see in a very way, applying to be received into the foundry,—there is short time. I hold in my hand exhibits C. and D. not a word of this in Holloway's affidavit,-and stating The former dated 11th of August, signed "William that he wished to remain in India during the rest of his Holloway," and stating that he has no intention of "vo-days. Upon which Major Hutchinson informed him lunteering into any other regiment, but on receiving my that there was then no vacancy, but that he might prodischarge I shall remain as head founder in the Com-bably be employed when the new foundry was finished. pany's foundry for a period of three years, agreeable to In 1834 another application from Holloway induced the sanction of the Governor General in Council; and Major Hutchinson to apply to the Military Board to get D. is the letter from Lieut. Green directing Holloway him transferred. This application succeeded so far that to appear before a regimental board for the purpose Government sanctioned his temporary employment on a of being finally settled with. I should remind the salary of Rs. 20 per month. In March 1835 Holloway court that it had been previously intended to transfer again applied to Major Hutchinson to get him permaHolloway to the Company's service, but it was not nently employed at the foundry, stating that he wished thought right to do so, and it was intended to get to be transferred as a sergeant, and that he was willing him actually discharged bofore he should join. Now, to receive the military pay of thirty rupees per month. my lords, that this may not be considered in the light Major Hutchinson did apply, as has been mentioned, in of a mistake by the man,-that it could not have been answer to which he was informed that the transfer from any thing but fraud, your lordships will judge from what the King's forces to that of the Company could not be I hold in my hand [C.] If it is his writing, I say permitted, but that the man must first obtain his discharge he must have meant a fraud; if the hand differ so much before he could be permanently appointed. Hutchinson from the writing of Holloway then it must be a forgery. communicated this to Holloway, and asked him what he This was written on the 11th of August. How happens wished now done, to which the latter replied,-but I will it that he was ignorant till the next day of the purport read the words of the affidavit. 'Holloway replied that of the letter? He then receives the draft from the native if this deponent would only get him his discharge he writer; and finds that Major Hutchinson had imposed would be bound to serve in the foundry as long as this terms which he (Holloway) never intended to realize. deponent liked, and on any terms this deponent pleased; Still no step was taken; no remonstrance; no explanation when this deponent intimated that Holloway should resought for; no complaint made. He feels the necessity of ceive 60 Rs per mensem, and serve the Company for an explanation; this, indeed, is admitted, but he fears three years, Holloway expressed his satisfaction and apthat had he required one, he might be "subject to perse-peared well pleased." Accordingly Major Hutchinson cution." How long he remained silent, he does not pre-applied for the discharge through Colonel Torrens, and tend to tell, but the next passage is strong enough. an answer was received from the Military Board sanc"This deponent further saith, on the 20th September last tioning Holloway's employment as head founder on a he received" he had kept silent from the 12th of August to that date however-"exhibit D. from Lieut. Green directing him to attend before a regimental board," and so on. This is certainly a very singular proceeding: this man states that he knows of the transaction of the letter; he knew the terms on which his discharge was to be obtained; he knew of the misrepresentation, but notwithstanding he took advantage of it. Is not this a very extraordinary circumstance? He comes and tells your salary of Rs 60 per month. Now your lordships will find this is dated the 17th June, 1835, and the date becomes material, for this man swears that he had no idea, nor never heard that he was to serve three years or any other given time in the foundry until the 12th of Aug., and yet your lordships are called on to believe, that Major Hutchinson had written to Government stating these would be the terms,-that the government had sanctioned Holloway's employment long before it was ever intimated |