Letter No.1725 of 1869 from Colonel Robert Phayre, the Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, Jacobabad, to Sir William Lockyer Merewether, the Commissioner in Sind [‎38v] (63/68)

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Murrees and Boogtees has been ap
proved; but as soon as proper arrange
ments can be made, in conjunction
with His Highness the Khan, for the
proper management of those Tribes,
it will be unquestionably proper that
all communications with the Murrees
and Boogtees, including Captain
Sandeman's, should only be through
the Political Superintendent on the
Prontier.
W. L. M.
This opinion is formed on altogether
wrong premises, as shown in marginal
notes above. If the course involved
in it was followed, an amount of inter
ference with an independent Govern
ment must take place, such as was
never contemplated by Government,
or the country would be given up to
a state of anarchy and confusion as
would lead to most lamentable results.
W. L. M.
On this frontier, from Peshawur to
Kurrachee, we are in the presence cf
Foreign powers, who are accurately
informed of all that is going on at
certain important centres, of which
Kelat is one. Nothing could play
into their hands more completely than
any system which would alienate the
affections of the bulk of the people
from ns; and therefore I am humbly,
but strongly, of opinion that it is low
ering the British prestige that its
representatives in Beloochistan should
be expected to see, hear, and speak,
solely, under the inspiration of a lac One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees -
tion of household slaves, who, as the
records of the last few years prove,
have unjustly seized the reins of Go
vernment.
The natural effect of this will be,
that in a very short time, instead of
our moulding the Khan and the pre
sent Government to our purpose as
we want to do according to Treaty ;
we shall be inevitably moulded to
theirs ; and when the hour of need
comes, the real strength of the country
will be against us.
Instead of weakeninor it would
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really strengthen the Khan's Govern
ment, if uuder our good advice and