The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-13 00:00:00

CASE OF LIEUT. HOLLIS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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Sut,—ln my letter of the 30th ult., addressed " to Viscount
Jocelyn, M.P., Secretary to the Right Hon. the Board of
Control," (which, together with my petition to Parliament,
you did me the favour to insert in your paper of the 3d inst.),
the following words are attributed to his Lordship as forming
part of his statement in the House of Commons relative to
my case :—lt was " found necessary to put Lieut. Hollis
under arrest while out on his voyage to India. Lieut. Hollis
broke that arrest—a very grave offence, and used harsh lan-
guage to his superior officer."—Morning Herald, Aug. 6.
Yesterday, however, I had the honour to receive a letter
from his Lordship, informing me that "the sentence which it
is your intention to allude to, as having fallen from me in
the course of my reply to Mr. Escott, was (to the best of my
recollection), that Capt. Mignan considered himself justified
in placing Lieut. Hollis under arrest on the outward passage
to Bombay, which arrest was broken by Lieut. Hollis (a very
grave military offence), who, at the same time made use of
language which one gentleman would not be justified in
making use of to another, much less a subordinate to a supe-
rior officer. These I believe to be nearly the words I made
use of in the debate, and not the sentence you attribute to
me."
Making every allowance for the difference—if there be any
—between these two statements, they clearly lead to one and
the same conclusion, viz., " that there were just grounds for
the arrest; that it resulted from some misconduct—some
breach of discipline;" of which I complained in my letter as
being contrary to the facts, and "most prejudicial to the
merits of the case." How can it be said " that Captain
Mignan considered himself justified in placing Lieutenant
Hollis under arrest," when he never preferred the slightest
charge in its justificaticn—wben he acted throughout maid
fee—malo anima P'—and when his whole conduct has been
condemned—not by the Noble Secretary to the Board of
Control, but by the Commander-in-Chief at Bombay—as
"most irritating," "highly objectionable and censurable,"
and "neither called for nor suitable from a commanding
officer 2"
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient and obliged
servant, WM. HOLLIS,
Late Lieutenant Madras Army.

Camberwell, Sept. 9, 1845.
* " The Court think it their duty, before closing the pro-
ceedings, to advert to the lor.g end irritating correspondence
entered into by Captain Align= with Lieutenant Hollis, and
continued after that officer had been placed in arrest; and
further to record their opinion, that the many frivolous com-
plaints preferred by Captain I.l.lignan against that officer, and
particularly the galling, and, as it appears to the Court, un-
warrantable taunt, marked 13 in page 25 of the Correspond-
ence, in a great measure led to those acts on the part of
Lieutenant Hollis which have been made matter for their in •
vestigation."— Opinirm of the Court of Inquiry.

FRIDAY NIGHT S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 10, 1845.
The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint his
Grace the Duke of Leinster, the Right Hon. the Earl of Ken-
mare, the Right Hon. the Earl of Rosse, K.P., the Right
Hon. Dvid Richard Pigot, and the Right Hon. Sir Thomas
Francis Fremantle, Bart., to be Visitors of Alaynooth College.

WHITEHALL, Auc. 19.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, Knight,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
has appointed John Tyas, of Barnsley, in the county of York,
Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the
acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries,
and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in
and for the West Riding of the county of York.
The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knt., Lord
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has
appointed James Frederick Beever, of Salford, in the
county of Lancaster, Gent. to, be one of the Perpetual Com-
missioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be
executed by married women, under the Act passed for the
abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of
more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of
Lancaster.

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