’Je suis parti de Cawnpore le premier du mois et suis arrive ici ce matin, je partirai ce soir et serai a Chandernagore le 7 au matin, dans la journee je ferai une visite au Gouverneur et le lendemain irai a Calcutta, je verrai notre Consul General.  Ecrivez-moi et adressez-moi vos lettres, No. 123, Dhurumtollah.  Je 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, and down all the rest roll over him.’]