text:  He repairs to Benares and there he hears the tremendous news that not only you had lost power in Affghanistan but that you had so depressed the spirits and shaken the confidence of the native army that General Pollock gives this melancholy account in a letter to Captain M'Gregor: --'It must no doubt appear to you and Sale most extraordinary that with the force I have here I do not at once move on; God knows it has been my anxious wish to do so but I have been helpless