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 APPENDIX. 433 carry out my instructions, and to avail myself of the means placed by his lordship at my disposal. Charges so grave, and of a character so exclusively pro- fessional, cannot, I submit, be properly disposed of without a military investigation. I find myself, therefore, com- pelled to express my anxious wish that the Commander-in- Chief will be induced kindly to reconsider his decision, and consent to my whole conduct on the day of the action of Balaclava (25th of October 1854) being investigated by a Court-martial. — I have the honour, &c. (Signed) LUCAN, Lieut.-Gen. To the Adjutant-General. March 12, 1«55. Letter from the Adjutant- General, stating that the Com- mander-in-Chief at the Horse Guards cannot recommend that your conduct on the 25th October should be investi- gated by a Court-martial. I have the honour, &c. (Signed) G. A. WETHERALL, A.O. Major-General LonD Lucan, &c. &c. NOTE IX. The Nature op the Litigation in the Suit op the Earl op Cardigan v. Lieutenant-Colonel Calthorpe. The tenor of the litigation in Cardigan v. Calthorpe was of this kind : — In his ' Letters from Headquarters ' — a book of which the successive editions appeared in 1856, 1857, and 1858 — Colonel Calthorpe had substantially maintained that Lord Cardigan, after leading the Light Cavalry, re- treated prematurely, and ho had also stated in the sanw vol. v. 2 E