"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." [‎٤‎٣‎٦] (٦٥٤/٤٥٣)

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HYDE HALL.
Walter Scott's, Malcolm went to Minto, " the lord
of which came to Abbotsford to meet him, and was his
guide through the country;" then continuing his journey
southward, he paid another visit to Burnfoot, and re
turned home in the course of November.
The year 1825, in the annals of Sir John Malcolm's
life, was remarkable chiefly for a visit which he paid in
the summer to France, at the time when all the country
was astir with the thought of the coronation of Charles
the Tenth. The Duke of Northumberland, with whom
Malcolm was on terms of intimacy, was then Ambassador
Extraordinary to the French Court; and both he and
the Duchess—an old friend—were glad to welcome him
at the French capital. His journey thither was distin
guished by no noticeable incident. He left Hyde Hall on
the 19th of May, spent a day or two in London, crossed
from Dover to Calais on the 23rd, and thence proceeded
on by diligence through Boulogne, Abbeville, and Beau-
vais, to the capital.
On the day after his arrival he dined with the Duke
of Northumberland, and " was warmly invited to accom
pany him to Kheims," in the cathedral of which the
King was to be crowned. "Nothing," he wrote, "can
be more splendid than the Duke's hotel and the style of
his entertainment." On the evening of the 27th he
started by diligence for Rheims, with a "motley party,"
on " an overloaded machineand after a break-down at
Soissons, arrived just in time to be too late to witness
the King's entry into the town. "However," wrote
Malcolm, " we followed close in his track, and along the
road. For the last ten or twelve miles, we found triumphal
arches at short distances from each other, some of
painted wood, some of leaves and flowers, decorated
with inscriptions of the King's name, the Dauphin, the