"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." [‎٤‎٢‎٨] (٦٥٤/٤٤٥)

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happy country, tracing their sources and suggesting re
medies. He was glad to have an opportunity of writing
another report, though not upon a subject which he un
derstood quite as well as Central India.*
Nor, indeed, as Persia and Russia. The affairs of
those two countries had, since his return to England,
occupied much of his attention, and early in 1823 it had
been in contemplation to send Malcolm on a third mis
sion to Persia. The direction and control of our relations
with the Court of Teheran were again to be placed in the
hands of the Government of India, whence they ought
not to have been removed; and Sir John had been in
vited by the Chairman of the Court of Directors, on the
suggestion of Mr. Canning, to take charge of the new
mission.f He had promptly accepted the invitation; but
he had communicated both to Mr. Canning and the Court
of Directors his rooted conviction that the embassy, to
carry out with success the objects for which it was de
signed, ought to be placed on as high a footing, as
regarded rank and authority, as any mission that had
ever proceeded to Persia; and that he should be regarded
* The letter, however, is a very re- I wish I had them, as I had some
markable one, considering Malcolm's worse counties in Malwah, and that I
limited means of observation. To- could act without fear of the Parlia-
wards the close of it, he character- ment, the Lord Chief Justice, and the
istically says: " There have been some hangman, and set about putting the
burnings and some shocking murders, zemmdars and ryots to rights."
from the usual motives of a class of f Writing to Mr. Canning on the
villains, who, if they do not in some subiect of this invitation, Malcolm
districts form the greater part of the said: " Though I felt that the sacri-
lower orders, overawe it, which is just fices I was called upon so suddenly to
as bad. The immediate suppression of make were, for many reasons, very
these savages is a work that to me considerable, yet I could not hesitate,
appears full of insurmountable diffi- for one moment, as to the course which
eulties, under any measures that your it became me to take. I have, there-
present military or civil power will an- fore, without hesitation or stipulation,
thorise. In some of the southern informed the chairman that what re-
counties nothing short of the exercise mains of me is at the disposal of the
of arbitrary power over the proprietors Government of my country and the
and occupants of the soil, as well as East India Company."— {Manchester-
the disturbers of the peace, could effect street, March 16, 1823.]
a speedy settlement of these counties.