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that he is perfectly satisfied with regard to the correctness 

 of the whole account. — I have the honour to be, sir, your 

 most obedient servant, 



Eeynell G. Taylor, Major, 

 Late Commandant Guide Corps. 



True copy. Eeynell G. Taylor, Major, 



Deputy Commissioner. 



From Major Reynell G. Taylor, late officiating Cojiimandant 

 Guide Corps, to Major H. B. Luynsden, Commandant 

 Guide Corps. Bated Jhelum, ISth Fehruary 1856. 



Sir, — In your demi-official letter of the 31st ultimo to 

 my address you say that from your recollection of my 

 report on Lieutenant Hodson's accounts, which I have 

 read to you at Peshawar, you think that the tenor of it 

 will convey the impression that you had made over the 

 accounts of the regiment to Lieutenant Hodson in such a 

 state that all his subsequent difficulties were the natural 

 result of it. 



2. I take, therefore, this opportunity of saying distinctly 

 that it is very far from my intention to convey the idea 

 that you unfairly bequeathed labour and difficulty to your 

 successor. 



3. It is, indeed, very clearly my opinion that one of the 

 chief causes of the difficulties which subsequently occurred 

 was the undefined balance of the chest, which not having 

 been clearly ascertained and set aside at first by Lieutenant 

 Hodson, vitiated the whole of the subsequent accounts ; 

 but this view of the case does not affect you : the diffi- 

 culties you had had to contend with were great and well 

 known, and on leaving you left large balances, both public 

 and private, in the chest, while you believe that all was 

 then intelligible if Lieutenant Hodson had taken pains to 

 master the difficulty at once. 



