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 EOFE OF HtJlOSH'CEtfNBBB flXTKHEBJRB, T would "be likely to come to 70a, than wonld be likely to come to a paper printed in the vernacular, Bay the -Btortur /—The probability is, that more letter* of the kind were addressed to the Editor of the Hindoo Patriot than to the editor of any vernacular journal Have yon at any time visited any of the great Indigo District* yourself, for instance JesSore, Krishnaghur, or Moorahedabad,. and «*• you personally known to many residents of those districts l^ftoy I have never visited any Indigo district, except Baraset and Hooghly. I am personally known to many inhabitants of the Nuddes district,, and to some of Rajahaye, and to some of Mymensing, having made their acquaintance in Bhowanipur. During the late indigo crisis have you had occasion to depute any person or persons into the interior, in search of accurate information regarding the State of the districts t— Not especially for the purpose of news. I have recommended legal agents to the ryots to carry on these cases who have acted as correspondents of the/ Sindm Patrtot then / I have received accurate information from time to time respecting every proceeding or occurrence of any note, : from persons m the district. Mr. Tergusson ] But did you send from this the legal agents whom yon recommended the- ryots to employ 1 — The ryots Cook, them up from here. I settled for one of them the terms on which they were to act as Mttltoar. This Was at a time, when I was told that no UukUar in the district of Krishnaghur, except in the Sadder Station> could be induced to take up a ryot's case, in consequence of a Afatoor, Jitu Chatterjee, practising in the Damurhoda (now Chooedang*) Sub-division, having been imprisoned on an alleged eherge of having instigated the ryots. President] Then you can distinctly state that you never deputed amssmries with directions to go from TkonnaA to Thannak, or village to village, pointing out to the ryots the line they ought to tako 1 — I distinctly deny having done so, and thank the Commission for having given me this opportunity of making this denial Mr. Sale.] Can you state how many of these legal agents went from Calcutta to the Indigo districts with your knowledge, to what oWU they went, and what was the nature of the understanding you