LORD GEORGE HAMILTON AND " IGNOTUS."
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTAT011,1
SIR,—Please allow me to cornet a slip in the letter which you were so good as to publish for me last week. I said that in September, 1878, "Lord Lytton was confessedly meditating war with Russia." " Russia " is a slip for " Afghanistan." In 1876 Lord Lytton began to prepare for a war against Russia, but in September, 1878, what he contemplated was the absorp- tion of Afghanistan up to the Hindu-Kush, either by a war against the Amcor, or by an understanding with Russia. This was so well known in India at the time, that I am astonished at the violent heat with which Lord George Hamilton has thought fit to stigmatise my reference to it as " a compact mass of falsehood," and as a " deliberate fabrication." — I am,
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