ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the letters of Hanmer wrrington to Lord Bathurst, Lord Goderich, and to Sir Frederick Hankey. The anxiety about Gordon Laing, to which the accounts of the attack on him in the Wadi Ahennet had naturally given rise, were rendered more acute by the lack of later news. Hanmer Warrington's exaggerated ideas of the extent of the Bashaw's influence, which he believed extended at least to Timbuktu, had led him to suspect that the Bashaw either knew what was happening to Laing, and was deliberately concealing it, or, that he could quite easily find out if he wanted to. Laing's arrival at Tombuctoo & the species of protection, He had received there seized on that city & imposed an annual Tribute which the Inhabitants unable to offer resistance are in future to pay, made themselves accomplices in the Project of Invasion meditated by the Infidels. Warrington began to attribute sinister reasons to his continued silence.
