HC Deb 12 August 1879 vol 249 c818
MAJOR O'BEIRNE

asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether he will lay upon the Table the following Correspondence relative to the case of Captain Chatterton, late of the Bengal Army—viz., the letter of the late Lord Sandhurst, containing the charge against Captain Chatterton upon which he was compulsorily placed upon half-pay, the subsequent orders of Lord Sandhurst and of the Divisional and Brigade Generals contradicting the charge, together with the Medical Certificates and Hospital Record upon Captain Chatterton's case, similarly contradicting the first letter of Lord Sandhurst?

MR. E. STANHOPE

Captain Chatterton's case has been very carefully considered and decided by several successive Secretaries of State, and it has been finally settled not to re-open it. Under these circumstances, it would be useless to publish the huge mass of correspondence relating to it, and unfair to publish those portions only which the hon. and gallant Member has indicated.