Note 89 — Chapter VIII

“Poor Captain Christie and Lieutenant Lindsay,” says Sir Harford Jones, “by their indefatigable perseverance had brought, when I left Persia, the one, several of the regiments of the Prince’s infantry, and the other, the corps of horse artillery, considering the shortness of the time they had been employed, to a state of perfection that was quite astonishing. And what is equally to the credit of these gallant officers, they were both adored by the officers and men under their tuition; though in the beginning they had often been obliged to treat the latter with a degree of severity that could not then have been practised with safety at Constantinople. The Prince Royal, however, had much merit in this respect, for whenever a punishment was inflicted and complained of to him, he invariably gave the offender a double portion of it, and by this means soon put an end to complaint.”—[Sir Harford Jones’s Account of the Transactions of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia, 1807-1811.] Malcolm took with him to Persia, as a present from the Indian Government to the Shah, twelve field-pieces, with harness and all necessary equipments for horse artillery.