"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎١‎٣‎٤] (٦٥٤/١٥١)

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which was rejected by me on account of the other allied powers.
I told them they had better await the decision of the sovereigns.
These have decided against them."
September 22. —Went to the English review, and never was
more delighted. There were fifty-one thousand men under arms,
more than forty thousand of whom were British infantry; and,
after all, there is more stuff and life in them than all the rest put
together. The battle of Salamanca was fought over again. No
thing could be more beautiful than the formation of the line and
reserves, ani the manner in which the army advanced extorted
the loudest admiration of all the foreigners. The Emperor of
Russia called to his generals to look from the right to the left of
the line and see the style in which it marched. Woronzoff said
to me, " This is an operation in which you beat us all." I forgot
to mention among my Russian friends the Prince Mentzikoff, one
of the Emperor's aides-de-camp. He is the grandson and repre
sentative of the famous Minister, and consequently the nephew of
Marie.
September 23.—Saw the Duke for an hour and a half. He
complains, and with reason, of some in England; but the treat
ment he receives, and will continue to receive, is the consequence
of his greatness.
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Here the Paris journal closes. The family letters
written at this time were many; but they differ little
from the diary. A few passages, however, may be
gleaned from them:
August 12. The Duke lent me a fine charger for a review two
dajs ago. I put him in the stables near my rooms and forgot
him. Twenty-four hours afterwards, he was missed at the Duke's,
who swore that my bad French had lost him the best horse he
ever had. Colin Campbell was despatched to me, and lo! the
charger was in the stable. The Duke puts on a plain coat
cvciy night, and goes to the theatre, &c., incog. To give you an
idea of the mode, he kept me the other night talking till every
one had gone away. He then proposed that I should go in his
Theatre Feydeau. I went. The buggy was old but
-tout. He had an English horse, which trotted at such a rate that