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५२६ ble that 'les principales' chooses to which Lafont hopes to bring satisfactory ansvers, were invitations to the disaffected and disloyal in Calcutta, & perhaps, the French settlers in Chandernagore to assist in the effort to be made to throw off the British yoke. A portion of the correspondence was unopened and there were several letters in Azimullah's own handwriting. Tro of these were to Omar Pasha of Constantinople that told of the Sepoy's discontent and the troubled state of India generally.”-Forty years in India Page 429 F. S . 63 "Nana's object, then, was to lay the foundation of his future sovereignty at Cavapore. The mighty power excercised by the Peshwas was to be restored : and to himself, the architect of his own fortunes, yould belong the glory of replacing that Tanished sceptre. There can be no doubt that such thought induced him," Trevelyan Page 133. R. SO, LE "No society of rich and cirilised Christians who ever undertook to preach the gospel of peace and goodwill can have employed a more perfect system of org&nisation than was adopted by these rescals whose mission it was to preach the gospel of sedition and slaughter."-'Cavapore' Page 39 989, 66 "For months, or years indeed, they had been spreading their net work of intrigues all over the country. From one Native Court to another, from ons extremity to another of the great Continent of India, the agent of Nanesahib had passed with overtures and invitations secretly-perhaps mysteriously-worded to princes and chiefs of different races and religions, but most hopefully of all to Marhattas... There is nothing in my mind more substantiated than the complicity of
