"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." [‎٤‎٢‎٥] (٦٥٤/٤٤٢)

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and I could not help feeling with pleasure that my visit
was one cause. Walks, dinners, Irish stories, Indian
tales, politics, sense and nonsense (which is better),
filled up every moment. I was quite sorry to go
away." Malcolm, too, was in the highest spirits, and,
we may be sure, contributed his proper share to the en
tertainment of the party.
There were few things in Ireland which Malcolm more
desired to see than Donnybrook Fair. And he fortu
nately arrived in Ireland at the right season to partici
pate in the humors of that great national institution.
Colonel Camac, who had been on Lord Wellesley's staff in
India, and Malcolm's travelling companion. Captain Hart,
accompanied him; and they were soon in the thick of
all its sports, and ere long on the brink of its contentions.
Sir John's ready tact and good-humor rescued them from
trouble, and they returned home in the evening without
broken heads, by no means dissatisfied with their day's
amusement.
A day or two afterwards, Malcolm " went to spend the
day with the Attorney-General of Ireland, the celebrated
Mr. Plunkett," who, added the journalist, " is as witty as
he is acute, and as agreeable as a companion as he is able
as a lawyer and a statesman.* No day could be plea-
santer. At dinner we had a large party, and I was de
lighted to be carried back to other times by Judge Day,
a fresh, healthy man of seventy-nine, who was very
cheerful and full of anecdote."
Next day, Malcolm tells us, he met Lady Morgan, of
whom, or rather of whose sister, he gives the following
account:
* lu another letter, Malcolm says: whose clearness and soundness of mind
" I breakfasted on the last day I spent strike me every day with more snr-
m Ireland and had three hours' con- prise."
versation with that remarkable man,