PROFESSOR SEELEY'S "EXPANSION OF ENGLAND." —A CORRECTION.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—Pray allow me, if you think it worth while, to set right a small fact of history. Professor Seeley, in his "Expansion of England" (page 286), says, "At this juncture, the young Malcolm was sent to Hyderabad, and he succeeded in disband- ing this [Raymond's] French force." The correct account is, that Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, the Resident at Hyder- abad, conducted the negotiations with the Nizam for disbanding Raymond's forces, and the skill and firmness with which he over- came the reluctance and hesitation of the Nizam and his Minister were pronounced by Lord Mornington to be worthy of "public record." When Kirkpatrick's work was so advanced that the French camp was breaking up in mutinous confusion, he sent his assistant, young Malcolm, to disperse the men, which
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