"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." [‎٥‎٧‎٥] (٦٥٤/٥٩٢)

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MALCOLM IN SHEOPSHIRE.
sonally, less of an aristocrat—no man liad less exclusive-
ness abont liim.
After a few days thus pleasantly spent at Mr. Robert
Clive's, and another brief visit to Walcot, where he
" found some more papers to elucidate the Life of the
celebrated Lord Clive," which he then said he expected
to complete in the spring, he proceeded to Shrewsbury,
and thence to a model farm belonging to Lord Powis at
no great distance from that place. Malcolm had an eye
to future farming operations of his own; and he made
in his journal some observations on the benefit of such
pursuits. " They bring," he wrote, " the highest and the
lowest into constant personal intercourse, and create
much good feeling. In our visits to Lord Powis's estates,
the farmer sat down to dinner with the Lord-Lieutenant,
whilst a kind welcome was given to the old gamekeeper,
now turned gardener, whose father was severely wounded
when firing a small piece of cannon at the first Lord
Clive's, at Claremont, to salute George the Third as he
passed the mansion."
Accompanying Lord Powis, Malcolm went on to
Wynnstaye and thence to Apsley—the seat of the Charl-
tons—after which last visit he took leave of his noble
friend, and proceeded by coach to Birmingham. One
of his fellow-passengers was a " puffy, pock-marked iron
master," clamorous for Reform. Malcolm was soon in
hot conflict with him. He seems to have been a sensible,
far-seeing man, though in those days (just a quarter of
a century ago) his language was * deemed violent and
extravagant. He said that he did not look for Reform
so much as for the consequences of Reform. Malcolm
said that the measure would be final; upon which the
ironmaster replied:
Can Lord _Althorp and Lord Jolm Russell believe me, and