voudrais que vous puissiez m'envoyer des fonds au moins 5 ou
600 Rs. sans retard, car je ne resterai a Calcutta que le temps
necessaire pour tout arranger et _le bien arranger_. Je suppose 48
heures a Calcutta et deux ou trois jours au plus a Chandernagore,
ne perdez pas de temps mais repondez de suite. Pour toutes les
principales choses les reponses seraient satisfaisantes, soyez-en
assure.

'Faites en sorte de me repondre sans delai afin que je ne sois pas
retenu a Calcutta.

'Presentez mes compliments respectueux.

'Rappelez-moi au souvenir de Baba Sahib, et croyez moi,
'Votre bien devoue
'A. LAFONT.

'Mon adresse a Chandernagore, "Care of Mesdames Albert."

'N.B.--Mais ecrivez-moi a _Calcutta_, car je serai chaque jour la,
en chemin de fer, je fais le trajet en 20 minutes. Si vous avez
quelque chose de presse a me communiquer vous le pouvez faire par
telegraph en Anglais seulement.
'A.L.'

'Chandernagore,
'_April 9, 1857._

'MON CHER AZIMULA KHAN,

'J'ai tout arrange, _j'apporterai une lettre_, et elle sera
satisfaisante _cette lettre_ me sera donnee le 14 et le 15 je
partirai pour Cawnpore. Mes respects a son Altesse.

'Votre tout devoue
'A. LAFONT.']

[Footnote 4: Flogging was re-introduced in 1845.]

[Footnote 5: This does not include the bodies of armed and trained
police, nor the lascars attached to the Artillery as fighting men.
These amounted to many thousands.]

[Footnote 6: In a letter to Lord Canning, which Sir Henry Lawrence
wrote on the 9th May, 1857, he gave an interesting account of a
conversation he had had with a Brahmin Native officer of the Oudh
Artillery, who was most persistent in his belief that the Government
was determined to make the people of India Christians. He alluded
especially to the new order about enlistment, our object being, he
said, to make the sepoys go across the sea in order that they might be
obliged to eat what we liked; and he argued that, as we had made our
way through India, had won Bhartpur, Lahore, etc., by fraud, so it
might be possible that we would mix bone-dust with grain sold to
Hindus. Sir Henry Lawrence was quite unable to convince the Native
officer; he would give us credit for nothing, and although he would
not say that he himself _did_ or did _not_ believe, he kept repeating,
'I tell you Natives are all like sheep; the leading one tumbles