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 [‎134r] (19/34)

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few Police. In 1857 no immediate danger to
us was threatened from Khelat. The young
Xhan ascended the throne in June 1857. In
September there was dread of a revolution, and
Major (then Lieutenant) Macauley was sent to
Khelat to assist the Khan, and adjust matters if
possible. This he successfully performed. He
went to Khelat without any escort, and on bis
way refused to see Taj Mahomed Zehrec, who
wished to complain, telling him he would see the
Khan first, and then if any Chief or peasant had
anything to say, he would be happy to hear it
in the presence of the Khan.
" lead to great good." He thanks them in
another letter for their " friendly and honorable
proceedings, ' he eulogizes them for having in
the moment of our need and the Khan's " been
" induced to assemble and exert themselves in
"his cause, by reason of the influence of the
" British representative only."'
34. We are in no danger of losing our in
fluence as long as we deal justly, and fairly by
all. In 1858 the Khan was found to be secret
ly thwarting General Jacob's measures, by
keeping with him, and acting in accordance
with, the counsels of a man, who was our most
bitter enemy, the Darogah. There is no Daro-
gah now, there is one filling his place r Shah-
gassee Wullee Mahomed, described in 1868 by
Sir Henry Green, who knew him well, as
having " never failed to offer the best advice to
His Highness the Khan in all matters," and
to " his firmness and loyalty towards the Bri
tish Government,"' he attributed most iqipor-
tant results. There has been no opposition by
the Khan, all he was asked to do he readily did,
and I see therefore no reason to conclude that
such a reply, as was given by General Jacob in
1858, should now be again requisite.'
34. Are we not in danger, T would ask, of
losinsf that influence which was worth 10,000
soldiers to us in our hour of need, by pursuing
our present policy 1 The question is a very
important one for our national interests, inde
pendently of those of absolute justice. And what
was the Khan doing all the time that the
Chiefs were thus aiding and supporting Sir
Henry Green and General Jacob? The reply
is General Jacob's, not mine. " Secretly, but per-
" severingly thwarting all our measures for the
" establishment of his authority, and the good
" government of his country.'
35. General Jacob's complaint of the secret
thwarting by the Khelat Government, alluded to
in Colonel Phayre's letter, to which my No. 521
was a reply, undoubtedly referred only to the case
of Wuzzeer Mahomed Hoossein in 1854, when
Nusseer Khan was Khan; the associates alluded
to on that occasion were the Wuzzeex's brother,
Mahomed Ameen, who was Governor of Cutchee,
and their connection Putti Khan, the Mingul
Chief. In 1858, according to the papers since
found by Colonel Phayre, the expression is again
used towards the new Khan, Khodadad Khan,
because he allowed himselftobemisled by another
evil minister, the Darogah. No British Officer has
35. These expressions of General Jacob's
I would here observe are a complete reply to
your letter No. 521, of the 23rd ultimo, in which
you impugn " the very unnecessary suspicions
*' and surmises formed by me with reference to
" proceedings at Khelat,'' and comment on " the
" unfounded nature of the suspicions I had
" formed," by endeavouring to show that Gene
ral Jacob's complaints of the ^ secret thwarting '
of the Khelat Government was confined to
Wuzzeer Mahomed Hussun's case, and was ap
plicable to him solely, whereas even in 1854
when that expression was used. General Jacob
distinctly associates " others of His Highness'