Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c51.s7.20

v4.c51.s7.20

∗ Lesteneau (spelt also Loustenau and Lestineau) reappears in 1813 in the circle of Lady Hester Stanhope in Syria, as "a strange ragged individual, with grizzly uncombed hair, and wild burning eyes", who sponged on Lady Hester by persuading her that he was a religious mystic, a raving prophet with mad eyes, foretelling the doom of Europe. The Gallic cock crowed very much indeed in giving the following history of his life :—"A Bearnais adventurer, he had left home to seek adven-