"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." [‎٤‎٤‎٧] (٦٥٤/٤٦٤)

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Narbonne, Princess of Polignac, Madame DavidofF, Duke Maken
Richelieu, Prince Polignac, Lord Morpeth, &c. When I was
going away, I received a very pressing and sincere invitation
from Lord Morpeth to visit him in Cumberland if ever in his
vicinity.
Went to Sir Sydney Smith's. Met Mr. Fergusson, the Advo
cate-General of Bengal, who had returned from India by a very
interesting route. After travelling through Persia and Georgia,
he had gone towards the Black Sea, skirted its coast, and gone to
Odessa, where he had met Wbronzoff, and been most kindly
treated by him. From Odessa he had come to Vienna; and the
distance was only nine hundred miles. He was fifteen days,
travelling with twelve horses. It was winter, and the roads and
weather were equally bad. Mr. Fergusson gives a sad account of
our condition in Persia. We are held light, and no respect is
shown to the English character. He said it was impossible to
convey an idea of the warm feeling all ranks still cherished for
me. The King, he said, asked about me; so did the Prince Abbas
Mirza, and, he might add, every man down to the lowest in the
country. It was a sad policy, Mr. Fergusson remarked, that
abandoned that country to its fate; and from what he saw and
heard, he appeared convinced the heir apparent leans wholly on
Russia.
The Princess Polignac came to Sir Sydney Smith's, and made
herself very pleasant. She told us a good story of an Irish maid,
who in announcing Le Pere Elyse de Chateau, called him " Fa
ther Elyse from the Castle!"
June 22. —Klaproth called this morning, and I settled with
him to send me the prospectus of his periodical Review of the
Russian Voyages, &c. Those interesting bo^s are lost to the
public, from the language in which most of them are written being
almost unknown in the south of Europe.
M. Klaprotli tells me he translated a great part of the Map of
China now at the India House, and if that map is sent to the
English Ambassador's, or any place in Paris, he will engage to
make a complete translation free of all expense to the Company, on
the sole condition that he is at liberty to use the information it
contains for his present work on China.
M. Klaproth mentioned that Monsieur Garnberg, the French
Consul-General at Tiflis, is just come to Paris. He is full of pro-
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