All this was revealed by the correspondence to which I have referred as having been found in the Nana's palace of Bithur.

The greater number of these letters were from people in England--not a few from ladies of rank and position.

One elderly dame called him her dear eastern son.

There were numerous letters from his English _fiancee_, and two from a Frenchman of the name of Lafont,[3] relating to some business with the French settlement of Chandernagore, with which he had been entrusted by Azimula Khan, acting for the Nana.

Written, as these letters were, immediately before the Mutiny, in which the Nana was the leading spirit, it seems probable that '_les principales choses_,' to which Lafont hopes to bring satisfactory answers, were invitations to the disaffected and disloyal in Calcutta, and perhaps the French settlers at Chandernagore, to assist in the effort about to be made to throw off the British yoke.