[49] Instead of sending this letter, the order for the march of a battalion from Hyderabad to Goa, in prosecution of the plan for dividing the sepoy corps, was sent two days after my departure, and provoked (as was, under such circumstances, to have been expected) open resistance and rebellion.
[50] This irritating and imprudent order (which has been before noticed) was sent to Hyderabad a day or two after I sailed; and the same influence that obtained the adoption of this measure, prevented the dispatch of the letter to the commanding officers of Hyderabad and Jaulnah, which I drafted, and which Sir George Barlow at the moment approved, and assured me he would send.
[51] The Major-General assured me of this fact.
[52] Vide Appendix.
[53] All the letters from this officer to me while I was at Masulipatam, are in the printed Correspondence.
[54] One of the chief objects for which this proceeding was recommended and adopted, was to gain time.
[55] See Appendix.
[56] Vide Appendix.
[57] See a copy of that order in the Appendix, in a letter to Sir George Barlow, dated 5th July.
[58] See Appendix.