"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." [‎٣‎٩‎٦] (٦٥٤/٤١٣)

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independence ; and lie believed that the British Govern
ment ought not then to shrink from asserting itself as the
paramount power, and thus securing its own safety and
the happiness of a misgoverned people, by assuming the
administration of a State no longer competent to the ma
nagement of its affairs. But he saw clearly what were
the uses of the Native States; he sympathised largely
with the fallen princes and chiefs of India; and he desired,
to aid them in the work of self-government by leading
them to a right understanding of their duties. He was
anxious, therefore, that nothing should, be done to hasten
on the inevitable hour of their extinction. If they could
be taught to possess themselves in peace and good-will
towards their neighbours, and to govern well and wisely
for the benefit of their people, so much, said Sir John
Malcolm, the better. But continued failure, in one or
other of these respects, he knew would bring down upon
the Native States, one after another, the judgment of
the Lord Paramount, and he conceived that in such a
case we ought not to shrink from asserting the supremacy
which Providence had placed in our hands. That this
was his creed may be gathered from the letters which I
have quoted in this chapter. And it is the creed of all
right-thinking men.