General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . e made them camp out on the open plainbeyond his entrenchments. His dispositions won thehighest praise from Wellington, and it was thus the Dukesummed up his eulogium : He manifested all the dis-cretion and ability of an officer familiar with the mostdifficult operations of war. He had been puzzled how to deal with the captiveAmeers, consigned to a palace close to his prisoners at large, and surrounded by their ownBelooch guards, they were in constant communicationwith their countrymen in the
General John Jacob : commandant of the Sind Irregular Horse and founder of Jacobabad . e made them camp out on the open plainbeyond his entrenchments. His dispositions won thehighest praise from Wellington, and it was thus the Dukesummed up his eulogium : He manifested all the dis-cretion and ability of an officer familiar with the mostdifficult operations of war. He had been puzzled how to deal with the captiveAmeers, consigned to a palace close to his prisoners at large, and surrounded by their ownBelooch guards, they were in constant communicationwith their countrymen in the field. On the 12th of MarchLord Ellenborough settled the matter by a proclamationannexing Sind and ordering the prisoners to proclamation was the charter of our possession, andit must be admitted that it was open to the stricturespassed upon it, as it was the justification for the groundafterwards taken up by Outram and Jacob. It chargedthe Ameers with breaking the treaty which had beenforced upon them. It set forth further that they were i J. ?I m •:|: hi: m ^ -ft^. <, as D 73 HYDERABAD 93 foreigners in Sind, with no claim to hereditary affectionor obedience. But doubtless it was essential to thepacification of the country that the Princes should bedethroned and expatriated, and for them there was nodisputing the settlement by the sword, unless ShereMahomed should prove strong enough to upset , who had resolved not to go behind the earliertreaties, expressed himself thoroughly satisfied with thisone, and he prepared to give it effect. He had argued thatthe Ameers were guilty men, and he seems to have beenhurried into needlessly harsh measures by his pre-possessions and readiness to believe the worst. Histreatment of Shadad is a case in point. He had con-demned him for the murder of a Captain Ennis on thelower Indus and would have * hanged him on thehighest tower of Hyderabad, had not Lord Ellenboroughinterfered. Misplaced leniency, is Sir Williamscomm
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