§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSH (Inverness-shire)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, with reference to a memorial from Sergeant Thomas Mackie, late manager of the grocer's shop at Port George, N.B., complaining that by the treatment of certain officers at Fort George, in the year 1883, he has been grievously wronged, and brought to poverty, he can give the memorialist relief?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN)&c.) (Stirling,I have received the Memorial referred to, but it is not a case in which I can interfere. Thomas Mackie, late Canteen Sergeant at Fort George, brought an action against an officer of the Seaforth Highlanders, involving charges of slander and wrongful dismissal. Judgment was pronounced against Mackie, both by the Sheriff, and, on appeal, by the Court of Session in Scotland, who dismissed the charges, and found that Mackie himself was a debtor to the public on the balance of the canteen accounts.