The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-06 00:00:00

MANIFESTO.

" Being about to cross the Sinde frontier at the head of a
strong body of troops, I think it right to state to the neighbouring
tribes why I thus invade the territory of our friend the Khan of
Khelat, in order that those tribes may be satisfied as to the cause
of my movements, and that they may not think the said move.
ments arise from a desire of acquiring territory or molesting allies.
" His Highness the Khan of Khejat has given me permission to
enter his territories, and, had he not done so, I must still have in.
vaded them for the protection of our own subjects.
" These territories are occupied, as regards our immediate fron-

tier, by three powerful and predacious tribes, the Doomkies, the
Jakranees, and the Boogties ; there are also some others of inferior
note. These tribes are in open rebellion against their sovereign,
the Khan of Khelat.

" During the whole of last summer they were excited by their
desire of pillage to make, without the slightest pretext, frequent
predatory inroads on the Sinde territory, plundering villages,
murdering many of the inhabitants, and devastating the country.
In several instances they were engaged with our outposts; and on
one occasion, falling upon 200 unarmed and unoffending grass-
cutters, they massacred nearly the whole of them, together with an
officer's party of cavalry, who were guarding these poor people,
and whom the robbers surprised. Many villages on our frontier
were left desolate, the inhabitants of which, abandoning their
crops, fled further into the interior of Sinde, calling aloud upon
me, as governor of the province, to give them protection.
" On my part, I applied to their sovereign, the Khan of Khelat,
to control his subjects. He promised to do this; but they were
not controlled.

" I believe his Highness the Khan has the most friendly listen.
ions with regard to the British Government, but it was evident

that the arch robber and rebel Beejar Khan Doomkie was too
powerful in arms to be reduced to obedience by his Prince. So
true is this, that he openly bestowed, in Jaghire, large tracts of his
sovereign's territory, and to which the latter was constrained to
submit.

" I was, therefore, obliged to reinforce our outposts against
this unexpected and unprovoked enemy ; and on one occasion our
troops wholly failed in an attack made upon Becjar Khan. This
was at the period of the year when the heat was so very great as to
be insupportable to human beings exposed to the mid day sun.
" My orders to the frontier posts were then issued to remain
upon the defensive during the hot weather. These orders, toge.
they with the success of 13ecjar Khan, rendered the rebel tribes
more daring. They frequently entered the Sindian frontier in
search of plunder, and were on one or two occasions attacked
on our own territory, and defeated by the troops, the police, and
the villagers themselves, who several times turned out to aid the
troops.

"it met be evident to every one that such a state of things

could not be suffered by any regular Government, end I was
directed by the Gevernor.General of India to take 'ugh steps as
were necessary to tranquillise the frontier and protect the people
of Sinde.

" I have hereto remark, that the ex.Ameer Sher. Mahommed

had located himself among those robbers, and excited these to
plunder Sinde. He was also in hopes of exciting an insurreetion
in his favour. But the chiefs of Saida had no desire for his re-
turn : still less would the people of Sinde assist him, conscious of
having a degree of protection under the British Government
which they never experienced under that of the Ameers. The
Ameer consequently gave ever his attempt and retired to the
Seikh territory.

" Such was the state of things on the frontier when the cold
season arrived; and in consequence of the solicitations made by
me to the Khan of Khelat, his Highness made a feeble effort
against his rebel subjects; he advanced from Dadur to Poolajce.
" It is evident that the rebels well know the danger they would
incur were they to meet their Prince on the plain, where he could
be assisted at any moment by the British, and each day's march
brought hire nearer to our chain of outposts. The strength of the
rebels lay in the Boogtie mountains; and to the mountains they
of course retired.
" Among these celebrated defiles and passes the Khan dared not
pursue them. The amount of his forces did not exceed 2,000
men, and even these were by no means under his command. All
immediate retreat was decided upon by his Highness.
" While this Prince was at Poolajce, I sent a vakeel to beg that

he would allow me to have a conference with him either at Poo-
lajee, at Dadur, at Bagh, at Gundava, or any other place his
Highness chose to appoint. His answer was a refusal, for reasons
which I cannot make public without doing his Highness an injury.
" My vakeel therefore returned; but I felt that it was neces-
sary to have in writing his Highness's formal acknowledgment of
his inability to control his subjects, the Doomkies, Jakranees, and
Boogties, and his desire that I would punish their rebellion and
their murderous inroads upon the Sinde territory.
" It was also necessary that I should have his Highness's rca. '
sons in writing for not meeting me. I therefore dispatched Mr.
Brown, the Secretary to the Sinde Government, who is a personal
friend of the Khan, and possessing my highest confidence, in
hopes some arrangement might be made for an united exertion to
repress these mountain robbers, but in vain. The state •f the
Khan's territories beyond the Bolan Pass rendered him unable to
attend to the affairs of Cutche• ; and he appeared to held nothing
but a nominal* sovereignty over that rich tract of country of
which Bagh is the centre.
" On Mr. Brown's return from Bagh, so daring were the robber

tribes, that he was nearly taken (and to be taken by them is syno-
nymous with being murdered) by 300 cavalry belonging to the
rebels, who had pushed about BO miles from their haunts for the
express purpose of waylaying Mr. Brown. The course to be pur-
sued by me has now become clear and decisive.

" It is to enter the Boogtie mountains ani attack these robber
tribes in their fastnesses. They are the Pindarrees of the Indus,

" As Mr. Brown rode through the villages, he found them
miserable. I will use the wards of his report to me :—"The route
I pursued through Cutchee was by Kunda, Kassim Ka Joke, and
Bagh, which line 1 remember in former years to be richly culti.
vated. It is now a desert; I did not meet with an acre of cultiva-
tion in Cutchee; the condition of the people is most miserable.
They have no security for their property; villages are daily plun-
dered by the hill robbers. I heard many villagers (some of whom
were wounded) declare that, if not protected, they would fly the
country and come to Sinde.'

" It is certainly not my duty to protect these poor people—.the
inhabitants of Cutchee. But it is my duty to protect the inhabi.
tants of Sinde, and, therefore, I shall march on the 16th of January,
beyond the frontier, at the head of a strong force, accompanied by
the Sindian chiefs Wully Mahomed Chsuideeah, Ahurned Khan
Mugsey, and many others, at the head of several thousand of their
followers, all determined to revenge their plundered villages upon
the mountain tribes. I shall also be assisted by his Highness Alley
Moorad Talpoor, who will marsh against the enemy, by whom his
frontier has also been molested.
" It is no small satisfaction to me, that I find the Siedian chiefs,
who but two years ago stood opposed to us in battle in Meeanee,
now eager to draw the sword and tight under the British colours.
It leaves no equivocal proof of their contentment with the Govern-
ment of Sinde.
q What the result of these operations may be, it is impossible
for me to say; but I hope it will be such as permanently to secure
the tranquillity of the Sindian frontier, and enable our ally, the
Khan of Khelat, to recover the rule of his country from these
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A smart shock of earthquake was
on the morning of the 21st ult.—a very unusual thing in
Egypt.

AFFGHANISTAN.
Our last letter, with news to the f.l7th November, made no
further mention of the plague, from which we may safely infer
that its ravages have been stayed, at least in Caubul, though it is
still prevalent to some extent in the ♦alley of Peshawur. The
Ameer Host Mahomed Khan, although still at Caubul, at the time
our last letters came away, was making preparations oonnected
with ar declared intention of spending the winter at Jellalabad. He
was somewhat alarmed by the sudden appearance at his capital of a
considerable armed party, who turned out to be refligees from
Mooltam, whence they have gone voluntarily to Caubul, in con.
sequence of the ill-treatment they had received at the hands of the
new Governor, Dewan Moelraj. They soon conciliated the Ameer,

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by ssUting him of their pacific intention, and were n ived inte
his service, and even assigned apartments in the Palace of Baia
Hissar. •
The only item of intelligence we have from Bokbara is. that the
gentleman supposed to be an officer of the Bombay army, which
supposition has, however, been greatly weakened of late, had ro.
fused to accompany Dr. Wolff, when he quitted Toorkistan, dep
daring himself a HaJee, and determined to remain with the faith.
tul. The snows, which are said to have been unusually heavy thle
year in the hilly country about Caubul, and in the north and west,
have put a stop to the petty warfare which was going on between
Khoolloom and the Ameer, and to the trade across the Hindoo
Kesh. The party which came from Mooltaus is reported to have
suffered severely from the cold when crossing the mountains.
The Sirdars of Candahar have, we are told, been quarrelling
among themselves, and it was said that their disputes ran so high
at one time that they actually decided on dividing their terrace /
into shares, so as to prevent the intervention of the one in the
affairs of the other, but the chiefs remonstrated, and on represent.
ing the evil consequences of such a step, the plan was abandoned.
We have nothing to report from the western capital of Affgha;
nistan, where the infamous scoundrel Var Malsomed Khan con.
tinues to hold his own by intrigues with all the states aroar,d hits.
We regret to say that, in consequence of some accident—ma=t
likely death—our messenger has not brought the usual heti:
monthly intelligence from Peshawur as well as Caubul, so that we
cannot give any late authentic news from that quarter. Rumour.'
there are plenty, but we place, for the reasons already given, little
or no faith in anything that does net come from the spot. 01,0
of them, which has already found its way to Calcutta, is that
Maborned Akbar Khan was actually in possession of Peshawur.
The insurrection in the valley of Kashmere, or snore properl
speaking in the west, amongst the Mussulnaan population at Mo.
zuflbrabad, and elsewhere, has been checked, to a certain extent.
by the exertions of Raja Goolab Singh, made before the Vreakieg
out of the late intrigues ; but whether effectually or Pot 14 have
not the means of saying at present.

LAHORE.
(Frew the Delhi Gazette, Jan. 22.)

Our letters from Lahore are to the 13th inst., and descriptive
of the great anxiety experienced by the Siekh soldiery regarding the
movements and intentions of the British authorities. The Raja
of Chumps was instructed by an urgent purwannah on the 111 b
inst., to send 4,000 men to guard the different ghauts on the Sue:
lej within his territory, and on no account to intermit the duties
intrusted to him; and four battalions were also ordered off on the
•same day to the Hurreke Ghaut. The distribution of the promised
golden necklaces were progressing rapidly, as the soldiery had
shown unequivocal symptoms of being determined not to be trifled
with on this point. The affairs on the northern line of the plains
are anything but satisfactory. Sirdar Runjoir Singh had an en.
gagement with the troops of Meean Juwahir Singh, brother of the
late minister, but it is not ascertained with what immediate sus
cess, though a rumour prevailed that he was victorioes.
Prince Peshora Singh was actually on his way to Seealkoty
and while in progress made bold to seize eighteen horses nir
one of the studs of Heera Singh, a measure which met with
no eliscoura.eement at the hands of the Ranee, when reportcl
to her. The desertion from the battalions first sent oe
service towards Jesrowta have been so numerous, that mere
skeletons of them are left, but others more recently dispatched have
been less inclined to go to their homes, as they have a prospect of
plunder, and have earnestly set to work to besiege Jesrowta. Ti e
garrison are making a stout defence. The troops which were sent
to Kashmere are said to have at length reached Mozuffurabad, bnt
they had no saoner heard of the death of the Minister and of
Pundit Jells, than they commenced disturbances, beating a num.
ber of their officers, and turning them out of camp. General
Goolab Singh, Provindeea, was, however, doing his best to restore
order. The same results occurred, it is averred, on the news bo.
coming known in the camps at Peshawur and in Bannoo Tank.
The utmost license continues amongst the troops; thousands of
them flock daily in the town, and even into the palace, where they
h.ehave in the most unruly manner, evincing no respect for the
royal presence itself. The totters of the Siekh vakeels on this side
the Sulk) seem to have caused the alarm about the reported its.
vasion. They wrote to say that the Commander.in.Chief had
given the most positive orders for all the troops at Uraballah and
the neighbouring stations to be prepated for Immediate service.
The order for the move of the 38th Light Infantry le probably the
origin of this information.

NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.
To turn from the state of the Punjaub to the consequent rnovco:
ments on our frontier, we have further to record that the Gover.
nor-General seems very properly determined to be prepared for any
emergency which may possibly occur on the frontier, by the retell..
Lion in the Sirhind and Meerut divisions of some of the regimentt
which had been previously ordered to march downwards, and the
addition of one regiment to their present strength, which is Ten!
great. The 31st Foot, which was under orders to march to Cawro.
poor on being relieved by the 69d, has been directed to remain at
Umballah, and the 6:2d will, In all probability, proceed on to
Ferozepoor. The 9th Light Cavalry, which was to go to Sultan..
poor Benares, has been ordered to go no further than Meerut, and
the 38th Light Infantry marched yesterday ftom Meerut to Kur..
nal, to take the duties of the Commander-in-Chief's camp, as hit
Excellency, instead of proceeding to Meerut, as some time sinrg
anticipated, remains In the neighbourhood of Umbellah, and has,.
it is said, been joined by the Lieut.-Governor of the North.Westera
Provinces, at the express desire of the Covernor-General, with the
view of affording Sir Hugh Gough the benefit of his experiences
and advice in the present critical posture of affairs. General G.t.
bert has succeeded General Fast in tke command of the Sirhird
division, and Major-General Sir J. H. Littler has been specially
appointed to the command of the troops at Ferozepore
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Loodianah,

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