"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." [‎٥‎٢‎٩] (٦٥٤/٥٤٦)

LORD ELLENBOROUGH'S LETTER.
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Had Sir Charles Chambers lived, I think he must have been
displaced. Sir J. P. Grant seems to have confined himself more
strictly to a legal argument. He may have been led by his
coaxing chief. Still there is much to censure in his conduct, and
although I think it will probably not be considered necessary to
recall him, his case is by no means decided upon. I am to have
some conversation upon it with the Chancellor in a few days.
We are so much occupied with the Roman Catholic Relief
Bill at present, that we have little time for other matters, however
important. To this circumstance must be attributed the delay
which has occurred on the part of the law officers. There was
none in sending the case to them.
In the mean time the King has, on my recommendation, made
your Advocate-General, Mr. Dewar, Chief Justice. I advised
this appointment because that gentleman appears to have shown
ability and discretion during the late conflict with the Supreme
Court, because he appears to take a right view of the law, and to
be on terms of confidence with you. I thought that the putting
him over Sir John Grant's head would do more to rectify public
opinion than any other measure I could at once adopt; and you
have him in " action" two months sooner than you would have
any man sent from hence.
I hope this arrangement will be satisfactory to you.
The Puisne Judge appointed in the room of Sir Charles
Chambers is Mr. William Seymour, of the Chancery Bar. The
Lord Chancellor has a very good opinion of him, and generally, I
think, he appeared to have higher claims to the situation than any
other candidate. He is a gentleman in his manners, and a man of
a cultivated mind. He seems to have right notions of his duty,
and of the law which has been so strangely misinterpreted. He
will rather support the Government, than use the authority of the
Supreme Court as a means of raising an Opposition. At least, il he
is not all this, I have been deceived in him. He will embark in
less than two months. He will probably be knighted before he
sails, and as it will not be right that the Chief Justice alone
should not be knighted, we must consider in what manner thafc-
can be best effected. I believe it maybe done by patent; but my
present idea is to empower you as Governor to confer the honor
of knighthood upon Mr. Dewar. This will evidently place the
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