"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." [‎٢‎١‎٧] (٦٥٤/٢٣٤)

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To the family at Burnfoot he sent also (a month, after
wards) a copy of the official letter, saying:
" I send this because there are Eskdale names in it, whose
friends will be gratified that they were with me. Josiah Stewart
is again in high political employ, and will get on famously. Tell
Sandy Borthwick that his brother is proper stuff, and that I will
do my best for him. Young Laurie is a fine young man; he has
now a staff situation, and I will endeavour to find him a perma
nent one I have no taste for grandeur, and I affect none;
but I am not insensible to the satisfaction of having had an
honest share in a war that better deserves the name of holy than
any that was ever waged; for its sole object has been to destroy
cruel and lawless freebooters, who annually ravaged all the settled
country in this vicinity, and committed the most merciless and
horrid acts of barbarity on the inhabitants." *
The services which Malcolm had rendered to his
country on the battle-field of Mehidpoor were promptly
acknowledged by the higher authorities. "Writing to the
Governor-General, Sir Thomas Hislop said:
" Your Lordship is too well aware of the high professional cha
racter and abilities of Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm, to
render it necessary for mo to dwell upon them; 1 shall, therefore,
merely express my admiration of the style of distinguished conduct
and gallantry with which the assault on the left of the enemy s
position was headed by the Brigadier-General, and my wannest
thanks for the great and essential aid I have derived from his
counsels, as well previous to as during the action of the 21st
instant."
The Governor-General, in an order issued upon re-
* In this letter also there is a people to beat for game, and all ap-
eliaracteristic passage, in. reference to pendages of rank. Bnt I would ten
Malcolm's sporting pursuits: "I long, times sooner have been stumping oyer
my dear Nancy, to be at home again, the moors, with Jemmie Little cutting
I have just returned from shooting and jokes on Parson Somerville s shooting-
hunting all the morning. I had seven jacket."
or eight fine Arabians to ride, fifty