Excerpt from The Dispatches of Filed Marshal, the Duke of Wellington: During His Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low, Countries, and France, From 1799 to 1818
"The object of the papers which you showed me last night was, I understood, to convince me that additional expense had been incurred during the period above alluded to, by the officers commanding troops, of which I have no doubt; and to apprize me that as the expense was not to be paid for the period during which you and I are of opinion the grass cutters could and ought to have supplied the forage, as well during that which they could not, the officers commanding troops were desirous not to receive any of it. It is unlucky that they did not fully explain, when they made their representation, that they wanted an additional permanent allowance to purchase forage, and not one merely to make good an expense incurred in consequence of extraordinary circumstances: but at all events I wish to know whether I now comprehend what was intended to be shown by those papers, as I propose to recall the order which I issued on the 3rd of June.
"My dear Colonel,
"I return Mr. Duncan"s letter, and the copy of a paper received this day from Colonel Stevenson. The latter appears to be a fiction. The demand of the contribution from Mulcapoor could not have been made. Gopal Rao Bhow could not have entered the Nizam"s territories; and Inglia could not have marched without Colonel Collins"s knowledge, and he says nothing of these events in his letter of the 6th to Malcolm.
"I doubt Holkar"s invasion of Guzerat, because the rains have set in, and he cannot remain in that country with his cavalry.
"It is very improbable that Scindiah"s man would have yielded possession of Bulsaur quietly, on the very day that Holkar came into the country. It is more likely that the officer"s cavalry was Scindiah"s.
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