"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." [‎٣‎٢‎٠] (٦٥٤/٣٣٧)

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with this augmented authority. He believed it to be
essential to the tranquillity of the country, and he wrote
to Mr. Adam, saying that in no other situation he could
be content to remain beyond the close of the year:
" As to myself, I have no desire to remain in Malwah, even if
my power were enlarged; but I must say further to you, lest any
expression from England of a wish for my stay should lead to the
subject, that I am not content to remain (and I take a view of the
subject more as it relates to the good of the public than my own
ambition) unless made Lieutenant-Governor of Central India, and
Military Commander, with controlling power over all the political
agencies in these parts, and also a power of direction in the affairs
of Scindiah; and of requisition of troops without being liable to
be superseded by any senior officer advancing into Malwah, unless
a war beyond my local means and sphere rendered it necessary."
To the Governor-General he also mote, at the end of
May, upon the same subject. Sir Thomas Munro had
arrived at Madras, bringing the insignia of the Grand
Cross for Malcolm ;* and it was supposed that Lord Has
tings had been entrusted with the duty of performing
the ceremony of investiture. This threatened to call
Malcolm to Calcutta—a disturbance of his plans which
somewhat alarmed him; so he wrote the following letter
to Lord Hastings, which enters so fully into his views
and aspirations at this period, that I am induced to insert
it entire:
sir john malcolm to lord hastings.
Nalclia, May 31, 1820.
M y L ord, —A short letter from my friend Sir Thomas Munro,
written the day he landed, tells me he has charge of my insignia
of the Grand Cross, but he forgets to add what instructions he has
received for its disposal. Upon that I have no information, but
a paragraph of an English paper, which states that it is to be (with
* Malcolm had by this time been promoted to the rank of Major -General.