'Understand you have stolen a march upon me.

You have introduced your soldier of Napoleon, and (how, I cannot conceive) he has been apparently accepted with favour.

I ask no better proof than the funds with which I find him literally surrounded--I presume in consequence of some extravagance of joy at the first sight of so much money.

The odds are so far in your favour, but the match is not yet won.

Questions will arise of undue influence, of sequestration, and the like: I have my witnesses ready.