| Description | A letter 'to the editor of The Englishman', headed 'A White Pandy', and signed with the pseudonym 'A Briton' and dated 16 May [1858]. Commencing: 'Sir - A few days ago a gentleman on the Railway was brought up before the 'facetious' magistrate of Jungeepore, charged with beating a sircar employed on the line...'. The account refers to the case of Frederick R Browning, Assistant Engineer of the East Indian Railway Company, charged with beating Mutte Lall Mookerjee.
William James Herschel, who heard the initial case fined Browning 250 rupees, which was reduced to 10 rupees on appeal. 'The youthful magistrate like his celebrated father must have been studying the stars, or perhaps that brighter luminary', this account asserts. Sent by William James Herschel to his father, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, and referred to in his letter HSF/3/6/8. |