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

DIANIFESTO.

" 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 Khau of Khejat has given me permission to
enter his territories, and, had he not done so, I must still have In.
varied 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, fed 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 inten-
tions with regard to the British Government, but it was evident
that the arch robber and rebel Beejar :Khan Doomkie was too
powerful in arms fo 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 oeeasion our
troops wholly failed in an attack made upon Beeler 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.
ther with the success of Beejar 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 must be evident to every one that such a state of things
could not be suffered by any regular Government, and I was
directed by the Governor-General of India to take such steps as
were necessary to tranquillise the frontier and protect the people
of Sind*.

" I have hereto remark, that the ex—Anieer Shere Mahosimed
had located himself among those robbers, and excited there to
plunder Sinde. He was also in hopes of exciting an insurreetion
in his favour. But the chiefs of Sinde 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
Amcor 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 eflbrt
against his rebel subjects; he advanced fl'om Dadur to Poolajte.
" Jt is evident that the rebels well knew 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 him 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. A❑
immediate retreat was decided upon by his Highness.
" While this Prince was at Poolajee, 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 nece.-
sary to have in writing his Highness's formal acknowledgment of
his iaa►ility to control his subjects, the Doonikies, 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 rea.
sons in wilting 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 t•
repress these mountain robbers, but in vain. The state of the
Khan's territories beyond the Bolan Pass rendered him unable to
attend to the affairs of Cutchee ; 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 SO miles from their haunts for the
express purpose of waylaying Mr. Brown. The course to be pur.
sued by mo has now become clear and decisive.
" It is to enter the Boogtie mountains anti attack these robber
tribes in their fastnesses. They are the Pindarrees of the Indus.
" As Mr. Brown rode through the vlitages, he found them
miserable. I will use the words of his report to me ;—"rhe route
I pursued through Cutchee was by Kunda, Kaasim Ka Joke, and
Bagh, which line I remember in former years to be richly culti.
voted. It is now a desert; I did net meet with an acre of cultiva-
tion in Cutchee; the conilition 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 ♦illagers (some of whom
were wounded) declare that, if not protected, they would fly the
country and come to Sinde.'

" It is certainly not nay 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 I eth of January,
beyond the frontier, at the head of a strong force, accompanied by
the Sindian chiefs Wully Mahomed Chandeeah, Ahumed 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 march against the enemy, by whom his
frontier has also been molested.
" It is no small satisfaction to me, that I find the Siediars 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.
" 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 fiindian frontier, and enable our ally, the
Khan of /Chelat, to recover the rube of his country from these
robbers. But with this last I have nothing to do ; the moment I
have punished the robbers I shall rezitire.o:l6theivneroluiorr own
sifurdenetler,
satisfied that I have performed my duty to the East India Company,
to the people of Sinde, and to humanity.
"C. J. NAPIER,
A smart shock of earthquake was felt at Alexandria ea. 1-1
on the morning of the 21st ult.--a very unusual thin in
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AFFGHANISTAN.
Our last letter, with news to the 27th 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 valley of Peshawur. The
Amecr Dost Mahomed Khan, although still at Caubul, at the time
our last letters came away, was making preparations connected
with a declared intention of spending the winter at Jell&labad. He
was somewhat alarmed by the sudden appearance at his capital of a
considerable armed party, who turned out to be refugees from
Mooltana, whence they have gone voluntarily to Caubul, in cen.
sequence of the ill.treatment they had received at the hands of the
new Governor, Dewan Noolraj. They soon conciliated the Arneer,