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 432 AITENDIX. Horse Guards, March 5, 1855. My Lord, — I have had the honour to submit to the General Commanding-in- Chief your letter of the 2d March instant, reporting your arrival in London from the Army in the East, and requesting that your conduct in ordering the charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade at the action of Balaclava, on the 25th October last, and writing the letter you addressed to Field-Marshal Lord Raglan on the 30th November, may be submitted to, and investigated by, a Court-martial. I am directed by the General Commanding-in-Chief to state in reply that, after a careful review of the whole cor- respondence which has passed, he cannot recommend to her Majesty that your lordship's conduct in these transac- tions should be investigated by a Court-martial.— I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) G. A. WETHERALL. Major-General the Earl of Lucan. Hanover Square, March [>, 1855. Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter informing me that the Commander-in-Chief cannot recommend that my conduct should be investigated by a Court-martial. Until this day I have been kept uninformed of the letter from Lord Raglan, which appears to have been addressed by his lordship to the Minister of War, when forwarding mine of the 30th of November last. This letter contains entirely new matter, and is replete with new charges, reflecting more seriously than before on my professional judgment and character. There is now imputed to me, and for the first time, inattention to, and neglect of, another order ; and again, a total incapacity to