"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." [‎١‎٤‎٢] (٦٥٤/١٥٩)

" , a great judge, says, I was the most magnificent
of the new doctors. A very fine speech was made upon
my merits." From Oxford he went to his brother Gril-
bert's parsonage at Todenham. Thence he proceeded
to Cheltenham; to meet the Duke of Wellington and his
family. " I was with the Duke all day," he wrote from
that place at the beginning of July; "that is, six hours
in the morning, and four, including dinner, in the evening.
He is completely recovered, and actually looking better
than I ever saw him. I go with him to-morrow to
Gloucester to the Corporation dinner. I proceed from
that to Lord Powis's, at Walcot, near Ludlow, in Shrop
shire. I am not resolved whether I shall not return to
London and start thence for Scotland, instead of going
by Liverpool. If so, I shall have the last dinner with
the Duke at Lord Westmoreland's, on Saturday."
This last scheme was carried out. He returned to
London, and started thence, early in August, for Scot
land. He was now paying his farewell visits. Eeach.
ing Burnfoot in time for the commencement of grouse-
shooting, he spent no small part of his time on the old
hill-sides, deep in the familiar heather. I know hardly
any place or any occupation more likely to make a man
indifferent to critics and reviewers. Malcolm was well
braced up to encounter any adverse sentence that might
have been passed upon his book. But there was no
thing, indeed, to try his powers of endurance. It was
on this last excursion to the North that he read the
reviews of his History of Persia in the Quartefly and
the Edinburgh. "The Quarterly" he wrote, "has
more of an essay than a review ; but it is very well.
The Edinburgh is better. On the whole, you may be
thankful that I am so well through the fire."
The 14th of August saw him on his way southward.
Paying visits, on the road, to Lord Buckinghamshire and
AFTEE WATEKLOO.