After Lord Midkton had made a firm and just speech
worthy of an ex-Secretary of State for India and for War, and the Lord Chancellor had defended the Government in a clever and captious harangue, Lord Ampthill, with a boldness and clearness to which he has accustomed the House of Lords, declared that in his belief General Dyer was absolutely right in what he did, and that he regarded his action with gratitude and admiration. Lord Ampthill dwelt, we are glad to say, on what to us is one of the essential points, namely, that the General had not had a fair trial in accordance with the law of the land, or, indeed, any trial at all. He had been condemned and punished with cruel severity, but never tried. Lord Ampthill went on, and here again we sympa- thise strongly with him, to attack the Hunter Commission which was faulty in composition, had made an incomplete in- vestigation, and produced findings which were inconsistent
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