On reporting to me in
London in person, you will receive the payment of all your accounts
with your back pay and transportation back to Calcutta, the place of
your temporary appointment. All the Consuls in continental Europe
have now been notified of the cessation of your powers, and you will
therefore, in no way act in the future in regard to the confidential
business once in your hands. The inquiry has been finally abandoned
by the order of the Indian Government.
"Please do report as soon as possible, and deliver over all papers
and vouchers now remaining in your hands. With assurance of my
consideration, Yours,
"ANSON ANSTRUTHER, Captain and A. D. C."
"Official,
"Confidential."
The letter of the Credit Lyonnais was even more menacing in its
tone. The Direction G'entrale referred to a formal letter of the
solicitors of the estate of Hugh Fraser Johnstone, deceased, totally
repudiating the four unaccepted drafts of five thousand pounds
sterling each, and legally notifying the Direction of an intended
suit to recover from the payee and the in-dorser, the first draft
for five thousand pounds paid before Executor Andrew Fraser had
filed his objections with Messrs. Glyn, Carr & Glyn. "The arrival
from India of the papers of the deceased, and the testimony of his
body servant Simpson, as well as the Calcutta Banker and solicitors,
proves that no such considerable withdrawals as twenty-five thousand
pounds were ever contemplated by the deceased, who had sent the
most minute business instructions to his agent and later executor.
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