with his despatches. He will of course send your letter of 8 Nov. if you wish it to accompany the present one. My own advice to you is to let this one, which carries all the principal points of your protest, go by this mail and then let you and I carefully draw up a paper on the obligations which the Impt. Govt. are under. You don't say whether you are better. Yours very truly, F.D. Bell. 12 o'clock.