No. X.
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Maitland to
Lieutenant-Colonel Innes.
Sir,
I am sorry that circumstances exist to subject me to be condemned unheard for a time. I hope Government will not decide upon your report until I have an opportunity of defending myself; which, according to your letter, I must look for from the Adjutant-General of the army. Until I received your letter this day, I never knew for what words or actions of mine an apology was required; or I most solemnly deny ever having given any opinion, in any way, regarding the Nizam's detachment and its officers, that night, or at any other time, in your presence.
(Signed) G. G. MAITLAND,
Lieutenant of the Madras European
Regiment.
Masulipatam,
24th May, 1809.