Letter No.596 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor and President in Council, Bombay [‎129r] (9/34)

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18. The remarks on previous para, apply
equally to this. The Khan was not then show
ing a friendly part to us, because he had as " his
chief adviser one bitter enemy". This is not
so now. The real intentions of the Chiefs had
not then fully developed themselves, and as
they were acting against the person who was
injuring the Khan and country, their attitude
towards Sir Henry Green, and exertions in
the cause of the Khan, as supposed then, claimed
General Jacob's approbation.
Beloochistan will stand, and eventually lead to
great good. * * *—(Signed) J ohn J acob."
IS. Again three days after, on the 26th Au
gust 1858, General Jacob wrote to Major Henry
Green at Khelat—
" 1 had written the accompanying when your
letter of the 21st arrived. Nothing could have
been better than all you have been doing, and
saying from first to last, and whatever may be
the state of things now, most excellent results
must very shortly ensue from the noble way in
which you have fulfilled the delicate and dange
rous duty entrusted to you.
All that you now write only confirms me in
the correctness of my determination to with
draw you from the Court of Khelat at present.
I will no longer work with this young knave,
who is unworthy to be ranked amongst Princes.
Wo will now readjust the board, and go to work
in another way. All will come right if I can get
recruits. I do not think that Government will
object much longer to my raising any force I
think proper here.
Meanwhile come back to me, telling the
Khan that I will not place, as a friend at his
Court, a representative of the English Govern
ment, while I now find that he, the Khan, is
not friendly to us, and that he has taken as
his chief adviser our bitter enemy ; and thank-
ino- all the Chiefs for their friendly and bono-
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rable proceedings which, assure them from me,
will ere long meet with full reward.
The way you have behaved to that Gool
Mahomed delights me. I wish the Chiefs
had publicly executed him before departing
for Punjgoor.
I will tell you all about everything viva
voce. It is long to discuss all on paper, but
it is clear to me now that a little open threa
tening of our frontier now from without could
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do good, and I should even be glad to be at
tacked. (Signed) John Jacob.''