I am anxious to retain him; for his services have been, and would continue to be, of vast importance to the North-West Provinces.

I should like to propose that he be made superintendent of Thuggee and Dacoity in those provinces upon a salary of, say eleven hundred rupees a-month.

I would at the same time propose that the Shahjehanpoor office, lately under Major Ludlow, be done up, and the duties confided to the assistant-magistrate, with a small establishment, he to receive an extra salary, say, one hundred rupees a-month.

The same with regard to the Azimghur office, now under Captain Ward, who could be sent to Rajpootana.

Elliot is not suited well to the work, according to those who have seen most of him and of it; and you might be able to put him to some other for which he is fitted.