"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." [‎٢‎٧‎٦] (٦٥٤/٢٩٣)

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ASSEEKGHUR.
11 Exercising, as I do at present," lie wrote to Lord Wei-
lesley, in September, " a military and political control
that extends over the greatest part of Malwab, and as
far south as the Taptee; and seeing provinces that have
been for fifty years a prey to anarchy and disorder rising
rapidly to prosperity under our protection and power, I
recall with delight those lessons I learnt under your
Lordship. Every day shows practically the wisdom of
the principles which you laid down for the management
of this great empire; and I am sensible I derive half the
reputation I enjoy from my good memory in remembering
what you taught me I have been continually
marching for fifteen months, including two monsoons. I
am now in a cantonment I have formed near Indore.
If matters are quiet, as they promise to be, at the opening
of the season, I mean to go in February to Calcutta; and
if not before appointed Governor of Bombay, it is my
intention to embark for England in November or De
cember, 1819."
On the same subject of the improvement of the country
he wrote soon afterwards to Mr. William Elphinstone,
saying:
" I am looking anxiously for letters from England, written
subsequent to the war with Holkar. The countries of that young
Prince are advancing to prosperity with a rapidity that looks almost
miraculous to those who are unacquainted with the patience, in
dustry, and attachment to the soil of the Ryots of India. They
actually have reappeared in thousands, like people come out of the
earth to claim and recultivate lands that have been fallow for
twenty years. I delight in the scene, and if I succeed (which I
trust I shall) in keeping the peace during the next two months,
provinces to a prosperity wliicli they villager in. this quarter, aud they come
Lave not known for years. This is a and squat down in my room aiongsi
point beyond either victories or nego- of astonished Rajahs and JNabobs, ^
tiations of which I am indeed proud, wonder at my bad taste.
I am intimate with almost every poor