Ameer-E-Khan, a former resident of Calcutta, was living in Boston, USA, when he wrote this letter to the Editor of the New York Times on March 16, 1883, on the newspaper's views on the proposed bill ''to give native judges in India powers to try Europeans accused of certain criminal offences''. The letter was published in the issue dated March 24, 1883, Wednesday. See http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D07E4D81631E433A25757C2A9659C94629FD7CF http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D07E4D81631E433A25757C2A9659C94629FD7CF ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India