144 Field Mekting — Burnfoot. 



Colonel Malcolm's father, Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, G.C.B., 

 was one of four brothers who by high service to the State 

 individually won the honour of knighthood, and who collectively 

 became known as " the four knights of Eskdale." Ak captain of 

 H.M.S. "Donegal." he took a Spanisii three-decker immediately 

 after the battle of Trafalgar. It was in the same ship in which 

 the Duke of Wellington (then Sir Arthui- Wellesley) was con- 

 veyed to Lisbon to assume the command of the Peninsular army 

 on the death of Sir John Moore, and Captain Malcolm received 

 from him the gift of a volume, an Indian registei-, which is here 

 preserved. The fly-leaf bears the inscription : — " Oapt. Malcolm, 

 Donegal, from Sir A. Wellesley. August, 1809." For naval 

 services in the West Indies Sir Pulteney received the thanks 

 of both Houses of Parliament. He was also Admiral of the 

 fleet which had charge of the island of St. Helena while it 

 was the place of Napoleon's exile ; and his diary, which is 

 soon to he published, may be expected to throw fresh light on 

 Napoleon's life during his period of captivity. Among other 

 mementos of the fallen Emperor there are here a lock of his 

 hair, a piece of cloth from his coat, and a coloured portrait- 

 sketch. Sir Pulteney is commemorated in Langholm by a statue, 

 the work of the Dumfries sculptor. Mr David Dunbar. Sir John, 

 third in point of age of the knightly (juartet, was disting-uished 

 as a diplomatist, representing this country repeatedly as Minister- 

 plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia ; as a soldier and a 

 statesman ; as an historian of Persia and India ; and as an Oriental 

 linguist. In India he held the position of Governor of Bombay. 

 His work as one of the founders of our Eastern Empire called 

 forth a warm eulogium from Canning in the House of Commons ; 

 and is commemorated by a statue in the " statesman's aisle " of 

 Westminster Abbey, where it stands by the side of Lord Beacons- 

 field's. It is also to the memory of Sir John that the monument 

 has been erected on Whita Hill in his native Eskdale. Among 

 the relics in Burnfoot museum associated with his name is the 

 official seal which he used at the Persian Court. It is a massive 

 piece of silver, somewhat bell-shaped, and quite the size of a brass 

 pound-weight such as you find on a grocer's counter. There are 

 also in the museum memoiials of Sir James, who served with 

 Nelson and Howe, and of Sir Charles, a naval officer, whose most 

 illustrious service was given to India. The collection includes 



