. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. or H. Green he writes :— April 23, 1859. My policy would be to tell the people we mean tosee and hear all that goes on, and to leave you as muchfreedom to manage your own affairs as possible, but notto allow other Foreign Powers to meddle more than we doourselves. The Russians are as much concerned in thesematters as we, are, and we shall always be willing todiscuss them with accredited Russian agents; but theRussians must disavow all secret and irresponsible shall not interfere with the people of Afghanistan int
. The life and correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, bart. or H. Green he writes :— April 23, 1859. My policy would be to tell the people we mean tosee and hear all that goes on, and to leave you as muchfreedom to manage your own affairs as possible, but notto allow other Foreign Powers to meddle more than we doourselves. The Russians are as much concerned in thesematters as we, are, and we shall always be willing todiscuss them with accredited Russian agents; but theRussians must disavow all secret and irresponsible shall not interfere with the people of Afghanistan intheir choice of a Ruler ; we shall deal with him, whenchosen, as we find him—and not pass over any slight orwant of attention to our interest and wishes. I cannot seewhy we should deal with them on any other terms. More than a year after he had left Sind, Frere writesto Lord Canning :— December 1, i860. I do not look on the Russian advance into CentralAsia as any evil, and I know a time must come when thelimit of our legitimate influence will touch the limits of. «S5S.] BOOGTEE RAID. 241 theirs. This maybe done in peace, and I think the soonerthe better. But I should like it to be, if possible, far fromour own frontier, and that we should meantime, by ex-tending our common and honourable influence, unite ourneighbours as closely as possible to us in interest andfeeling. This is one of my great reasons for wishing tomake the most of facilities for commerce in Kurracheeand the Indus, and for highly valuing such work as MajorGreens, taking every care that he does not commit usto any advance in force. But to return to the autumn of 1858. On September28, Frere was writing to Lord Elphinstone :— I have just received from General Jacob an account ofa raid by the Boogtees into the Murree country, whichshows what these men are up to if they did not know thatit was unsafe to meddle with us. While the Murrees wereoccupied by a threat of attack from the Khetranees, IslamKhan and Mo
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