The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B. Volume 1; Late Envoy to Persia, and Governor of Bombay (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...restoration of the place to Dowlut Rao Scindiah was to belong to another stage of the great contest with the Mahrattas. Malcolm never swerved from his original opinion. But, practically, in all such controversies the will of the higher authority prevails. Lord Wellesley had been very angry, and he had caused his displeasure to be communicated in unsparing terms. But he loved and respected Malcolm; and he was grieved to leam that his censures had sunk so deeply into his friend's heart. So he sate down and wrote a long explanatory letter, entering frankly and unreservedly into the feelings by which he had been moved, and declaring that, in spite of this distressing episode, his confidence in Malcolm was unshaken: LORD WELLESLEY TO MAJOR MALCOLM. Barrackpore, June 14,1804. My Dear Major, --I am concerned to learn that your mind has been considerably distressed by an idea that your conduct in the late discussions at the Durbar of Scindiah has not been satisfactory to me. A plain and candid statement of my sentiments LORD WELLESLEY's EXPLANATIONS. 281 on that subject will, I trust, relieve you from your anxiety. I approve in the warmest manner the aid you afforded to my brother Arthur in all the important arrangements which preceded and immediately followed the restoration of the Peishwah, and all the negotiations which led to the restoration of peace with the Mahratta confederates. In these most arduous affairs you have rendered a most useful service to your country, and greatly augmented your public fame and your claims on my gratitude and esteem. In the negotiation of the defensive alliance with Scindiah you accomplished one of the most essential services which any diplomatic exertion could have effected in India, and one of the objects most valuable in my est...