"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." [‎٤‎٣‎٠] (٦٥٤/٤٤٧)

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immediate countenance of the Crown, from which, as
well as from the Company, the envoy was to receive
credentials. Canning, on the other hand, wished to keep
the actual control of the Mission in the hands of the
Foreign Office, whilst the Company, from which it was
nominally to emanate, was to select the agents and to be
responsible for its success. He was resolute not to confer
the credentials from the Crown, which Malcolm declared
to be absolutely necessary, in the conjuncture which had
then arisen. So, as there was no hope of reconciling the
difference. Sir John abandoned the idea of turning his
ambassadorial face again towards the Court of Teheran.
" I resign with some reluctance," he wrote to the Duke
of Wellington, " this prospect of being useful to my
country in a scene where I think local impressions might
have given me the power of doing good. I shall, how
ever, have the consolatory reflection that in taking the
line I have done I have been actuated by no interested
motives. It has neither been a question of money nor of
personal ambition, but a conscientious conviction that
the terms on which I am sure I should go* would greatly
diminish, if they did not altogether destroy, my ability
to fulfil those expectations which were formed from em
ploying me." And the Duke took the same view of the
question. "The King of Persia," he wrote in reply to
Malcolm, "has now a diplomatical intercourse with the
King of England. He has agents in this country; and
we are much mistaken if we suppose that the difference
between the King's and the Company's Government is not
perfectly known in Persia. It is highly desirable that
the intercourse with London should cease, and that with
Bengal be revived, for many reasons referable to our
Indian, as well as to our European interests. But I am
Crown^ UIlc ^ er Manning's system—" without credentials from the