"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." [‎٢‎٧‎٨] (٦٥٤/٢٩٥)

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dent with Holkar, and who is reported (I have not seen him for
many years) a very efficient public officer."
Whilst Malcolm, surrounded by a society of pleasant
friends, was prosecuting with these happy results his ad
ministrative labors, the 23rd of September found him
not unmindful of the fact that it was the anniversary of
the battle of Assye—the first of TV ellington's long list of
victories. Determining to celebrate the occasion by a
grand entertainment, he invited all the officers in camp
to dinner, and toasted the duke with becoming enthu
siasm. The native soldiery followed the example of
their officers, and the very Pariahs had a festival of their
own. The scene was a memorable one; and it cannot
be better described than in the words of Malcolm's own
ettci to W ellington, written two days after the carouse:
" The day before yesterday the whole of the officers in camp
dined with me to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Assye;
and it was celebrated with proper enthusiasm by men who were
sensible to all the advantages the Indian army derives from having
its fame associated with your history. I have never yet written
y poetry a out you, and therefore expect pardon for makinff
you the subject of a song for the day, a copy of which I enclose *
It is the same measure as that in which Moore has made the
enms of Erin call upon you to relieve her land, and sings equally
well with the appropriate air of 'Paddy Whack.' If Moore is
very ns 1, you will perhaps say I am very Asiatic.
a U1 SS ^ 0 o es ^ va ^ no t finish with my dinner. My native
ai e-de-camp, Subadar Syud Hussein, a gallant soldier, owes his
p 0 1° . ia ^ was the leading havildar of the Fourth
a xy m t ie c laige ; and he afterwards dashed into the centre
ot a party of the enemy's horse, and bore off their standard. His
mmandmg officer, Floyer, brought him and the standard to you;
upon t ic story being told, you patted him upon the back,
on th^occasiori—nri p ¥ i £ colm v J rot . e be found in the Appendix. It was
rited of his noptipnl n S P 1 " sun g by Captain Fleetwood, of the
01 ms Poetical compositions- Rocket Corps.