ANOTHER PERSONAL ANECDOTE. 33 TO THE MAGISTRATE OF NUDDEA, Krishnaghur, Dated, 20M April, 188a Sib, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of jour memo No. 722, dated the 9th instant, forwarding to me for reply an extract of a letter from the Deputy-Magistrate of Banaghat, in which he requests you to call noon me to make a statement, whether or not I am the writer of certain letters referred to therein; and in reply, I heg respectfully to state that as 1 am not aware of any law which authorizes the Deputy-Magistrate, either directly or through you to call upon me peremptorily, in his official capacity, to make any such statement, I must decline to answer the question put to me, which I should probably have very readily answered, if, in the first instance, I had been asked unofficially, and in a civil manner. I have the honor to be, Sib, Your most Obedient Servant Bam Gopal Sanyl Mr. Ghose favoured us with the following letter on the subject : — 4 THEATRE ROAD, Calcutta, list April 1880. My drab sib, Many thanks for your kind letter. I have been excessively busy, or else I should have written to you long ago. I drafted the reply which Mr. Biach wrote at my dictation, and sent you a copy. I dare say, you have sent the reply as advised. The Deputy-Magistrate of Banaghat must be out of his mind to go on in the way he is doing. You have already heard the result of Babu Shyama Charan Sanyal's case. The Judges are going to hand the Deputy-Magistrate up to Government, and they have disbelieved his affidavit. I think he is sure to be degraded, if not dismissed. If he proceeds against you on any charge, you must at once come to me, and we will apply to the 0
