His landed estate I am told can also be confiscated, in the event of an impeachment at the bar of the House of Lords, as in the Warren Hastings case.

But as yet nobody seems clear as to the form which the investigation will take.

In reply to your inquiry as to what would have happened if his lordship had died on the passage home, I believe I am justified in saying the scandal would have been allowed to die with him.

He has contrived to provoke powerful animosities both in the Cabinet and at the India House, and there is, I fear, an intention to pursue the inquiry to the bitter end.' Assurances of the writer's sympathy followed these harsh truths.

But to this polite commonplace her ladyship paid no attention.