"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." [‎٤‎٦‎٤] (٦٥٤/٤٨١)

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was a candidate for tlie vacant Government (to which they gave
me no reply beyond civil and general expressions), I hastened to
Mr. Wynne, to whom I stated my pretensions and hopes, adding,
that with his assent I should immediately apply to you, to Mr.
Canning, and through my friends Lord Sidmouth and Mr. Robin
son, to Lord Liverpool. Mr. Wynne received me very kindly,
but was, as I expected, reserved as to the object of my application.
I cannot give a better proof of my having looked to his Majesty's
Ministers than by stating, that in my application to Mr. Wynne
and my friends in the administration, my request was, that they
would, interfere to prevent what I then deemed a supersession of
my claims—the intended appointment of Mr. Elphinstone to
Madras. In your first kind note, you said you would do what you
could, but bade me not be too sanguine; in your second, you men
tioned the specific objections made to my nomination to Madras.
Mr. Canning, in answer to a note I wrote him, stated that he,
being in the confidence of a friend applying for the same object,
would prevent opposition to his success, but he had refused him
support, citing my probable pretensions as the reason. There was
nothing in the communication from Mr, Canning, nor in that I
had with you, to prevent my using my best efforts to obtain my
object; but I thought it right at this period to go to the Chairman
and say, that I never had anticipated an objection to my nomina
tion to Madras grounded on my near connexion with Sir Alex
ander Campbell, but if such had weight with them, I trusted it
Avould not be a bar to my obtaining honorable employment in the
service of my country. The removal of Mr. Elphinstone to
Madras, which he had solicited, would, I said, vacate Bombay, to
which I begged they would nominate me. I added, that I felt
the point of precedence removed by the character of the objection
taken to my appointment to Madras, and under such circum
stances, I preferred greatly the duties I should have to perform at
Bombay. The new principles of Government introduced into the
Poonah territories ; the change lately made in the Baroda State ;
the management and settlement of the princes and chiefs in
Kattywar and Cutch, recently subjected to our authority ; the
repression of the Korsahs (a race of Pindarrees near the Indus),
who annually commit depredations on our frontiers; the conduct
of our delicate relations with the barbarous Princes of Sindh, with