"I will not repeat what has been already said," and at once he began at interminable length to contradict his words.

He repeated the proposals of surrender made by Wafadar Nazim from beginning to end.

The Colonel Sahib was to march out of the fort with his troops, and his Highness would himself conduct him into British territory.
"If the Colonel Sahib dreads the censure of his own Government, his Highness will take all the responsibility for the Colonel Sahib's departure.

But no blame will fall upon the Colonel Sahib.

For the British Government, with whom Wafadar Nazim has always desired to live in amity, desires peace too, as it has always said.