Under existing circumstances, I deem your application inadmissible. Government will be guided by my report of this day, and will decide accordingly. So far as relates to yourself, you may apply to the Adjutant-General of the army for a copy. I am left to regret that you and Lieutenant Forbes did not make the _required apology_ for your conduct on the 7th instant. Had you done so, as I requested, private information would not have been acted upon, as far as I know. Matters must now take their course. I will still forward any explanations you may state to me with respect to the _observations you made_ at the _mess_ on the 7th instant, so _publicly_, with respect to the Nizam's detachment, and officers who are not friends of the army. (Signed) J. INNES, Lieut.-Col. 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. No. XI. _Copy of a Letter from the Officers of the Madras European Regiment to the Adjutant-General of the Army._ SIR, It was with the most extreme concern that in our regimental orders of the 22d instant we found a copy of a letter from you, by which we were informed, that it had come to the knowledge of the officer commanding the army, that conduct highly indecorous, and contrary to every principle of military subordination, had been observed at the mess of the Madras European regiment on the 7th instant. We beg leave to assure you, for the information of Major-General Gowdie, that it appears to us that the account he has received of the conduct of those officers, who were present at the mess on that evening, must have been erroneous. We cannot help lamenting that such a stigma on the character of so numerous a body of officers as we form, should have been thus publicly thrown out, before we had been furnished with a copy of the report that has been made against us.