on the subject. You alone have supported me throughout this case, through you have passed many of the Telegrams on the subject and through you has come the Defence Ministers censure for my mismanagement of it. I feel therefore no apology is needed for requesting you to place my conduct of it in its proper light. I am the more indueed to trouble you on an affair which may appear personal as I think that the connection between Militia and Volunteers ought to be put on a clearer and more satisfactory footing. I am ever Very truly yours, Gwavas Carlyon.