"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." [‎٣‎٣‎٨] (٦٥٤/٣٥٥)

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are of a general character, suited to all who have any
official intercourse with the people of India; and neither
the progress of time nor the mutations of circumstance
can render them antiquated or irrelevant. They have
been so often printed, so largely quoted, ^so generally
read, that I do not purpose to dwell long upon them in
this place. The growth at once of high principle, gene
rous feeling, sound sense, and long experience, they are
distinguished as much by their humanity as their sagacity,
and they come recommended to us by the knowledge
that they were the groundwork of Malcolm's own official
conduct, and were not more admirable in theory than
they were successful in practice. I believe that already
in this narrative of Malcolm's life the reader has seen in
beneficent action the principles enunciated in these In
structions. The notes themselves are accessible to every
one and I believe that in India there are few European
officers in political employ, to whom they are not as fa
miliar as the Church catechism.
The preparation of these Instructions was a fitting and
a graceful close to Malcolm's career in Central India.
He had now spent three years and a half in Malwah,
partly in a military, partly in a diplomatic, partly in an
administrative capacity; and to no period of his life could
he look back, on the brink of the grave, with greater satis
faction. From the day, when he negotiated the treaty of
Mundissore with Holkar's ministers, to that of his final
departure from Malwah, he had been continually en
gaged in efforts to restore not only the territories ceded
to us after the war, but those which remained in the
hands of our allies, to order and good government. He
had told Holkar's Envoys that their master would be
* They are to be found in the Ap- notes by Malcolm himself. I may add,
pendix to the Memoirs of Central India, that they are greatly esteemed oil the
They were also printed in a separate Continent,
form in 1824, with a few elucidatory