text:  The Envoy himself was from the first greatly in favour of this move until overruled by the many objections urged against it by the military authorities; to which as will be seen by a letter from him presently quoted he learned by degrees to attach some weight himself; but to the very last it was a measure that had many advocates and I venture to state my own firm belief that had we at this time moved into the Bala Hissar Cabul would have been still in our possession