text:  Macnaghten's found we presume amongst his papers after his death:-- "The immediate cause of the outbreak in the capital was a seditious letter addressed by Abdoollah Khan to several chiefs of influence at Cabul stating that it was the design of the Envoy to seize and send them all to London! The principal rebels met on the previous night and relying on the inflammable feelings of the people of Cabul they pretended that the King had issued an order to put all infidels to death; having previously forged an order from him for our destruction by the common process of washing out the contents of a genuine paper with the exception of the seal and substituting their own wicked inventions