YOUR agreeable letter has been received. You write, “that you have “discharged to the amount of eighteen lacks of rupees [of our claim “upon you] by bankers’ accepted bills, and request that we will either “excuse you the remaining eight lacks [due to us] or allow the payment “of it to be postponed to next year.”

It is known. A statement of the sums, of which that friend was, through his own negligence, defrauded by his servants, specifying the amount of each individual’s malversations, was submitted to him. Where, then, was the difficulty of making the several plunderers refund their plunder, and of paying the same to us [in discharge of our claims]? We desire you will also raise the remaining eight lacks of rupees, and transmit the amount, in bankers’ bills, by the hands of our bankers, whom we wish you to send back to us immediately.*