"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." [‎٥‎٤‎٠] (٦٥٤/٥٥٧)

540
THE BOMBAY GOVERNMENT.
It is more pleasant to relate that, before the end of the
year, the two Scotch knights had ceased to stand aloof
from each other. Mutual friends stepped in and encou
raged explanations which were satisfactory to both. Sir
John Grant acknowledged, with a manly frankness which
did him honor, that his most intimate friends in England
thought that the letter he had written to Sir John Mal
colm was couched in more intemperate language than
the circumstances of the case called for or warranted.*
And. Malcolm, on his part, declared, what indeed he had
said from the beginning, that so far from the letter of
the Government to Sir C. Chambers and Sir J. Grant
being intended to convey personal olfence, it was the
anxious desire of the Governor and his colleagues " to
render it as respectful as possible, consistently with the
plain expression of the information regarding the resolu
tions which they deemed it their public duty to convey
to his Majesty's judges, and that the most remote idea of
giving offence to them in their public or private capacity
was never entertained." The wounds were, therefore,
healed; but it must be added that the scars remained for
evermore.
I gladly turn to other matters. This contest with the
Supieme Court has necessarily formed a conspicuous
feature in the narrative of Malcolm's government of
Bombay; but, after all, it was but an episode, and even
when in the very thickest of the conflict it did not occupy
* My letter to Sir John Malcolm," have done so, and if I could Lave con-
he wrote to Colonel Smith, « and his suited them at the time, I should have
answer, i have communicated to four done so. My son writes me also that
ot my private and most intimate friends he thinks my letter had too much of
in England, desiring their opinion of irritation in the style of it. Now, of
my letter. My son has communicated these matters others are better judges
it to me 1 hey wish I had not written than I. I did not mean to say anvthfuc-
it, biu had subdued my private feel- in my letter that should give offence •
ings and treated the matter as entirely my intention was to express offence
pubtic. Urn is just; their opinion —private offence, as I thought, justly
is sufficient to convince me that I might taken."