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82 IEFB OF HCHISH CHTTNDEE MUKHERJEE. more than ordinary force." And yet there is anarch* in Bengal," (Vide Life of K. D. Pal p. 192.)

CHAPTER V.

[HIS EVIDENCE BEFORE THE INDIGO COMMISSION.

The battle he waged and successfully fought against the tyranny and wrong-doings of the planters had at last the effect of inducing the Government t4 • appoint a Commission to make an enquiry into, and report upon, the matter under Act XI. of i86qJ Mr. W. S. Seton-Karr, Esq., c. s., and Mr. ( after* wards Sir ) Richard Temple, c. s., represented the Government, Mr. W. F. Fergusson, Esq, the planting community, the Reverend Mr. J. Sale, the mis- sionaries, while the late Babu Chundra Mohutl Chatterjee was the mouth-piece of the British Indian Association. Among the numerous witnesses sum* moned and examined by the Commission, Babu Hurislj Chunder was one, and he deposed as follows : — 1 Monday, 30th July, 1860. Present. W. S. Seton-Karr, Esq., o. s., President. Members, W. F. Fergusson Esq. | Keverend J. Sale, Babu Chundra Mohun Chatterjee. „. Babu Huriah Chunder Mukherjee, of Bhowanipur, in the district of the 24-Pergunnahs, called in and examined on oath. | President.] What situation do you hold ? — I am a clerk in the service of Government in the Military Auditor General's office. £ Tou are the editor of the Hindoo Patriot I — I do not hold my| self the responsible editor of the paper, but I have sufficient fluence with the Proprietor to make him adopt any tone of policy I deem fit, i