"وجهات نظر وآراء العميد جون جاكوب، قائد وسام الطُهر. مساعد النائب للملكة؛ مساعد النائب لحاكم الهند العام، وغيرهما؛ والقائد الراحل للقوات البريطانية في بلاد فارس؛ والقائد الحالي لخيالة السند غير النظامية، والمشرف السياسي على الحد الشمالي الغربي للسند." [‎٣‎٨‎٢] (٤٨١/٤١٢)

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To send on stores and building materials to Karrack
appears to you simple enough: but with an unlimited
number of ships, I am informed that the operation would
occupy at least two months' time.— {July 1857.)
ORIENTALS ARE COMMANDED, NOT BY ETIQUETTE,
BUT BY HABITUAL NOBILITY OF BEING.
can scarcely be considered a high authority as to
what is or is not likely to give offence to eastern princes.
He seems to assume that the British reputation can depend
upon the proceedings of a miserable Persian writer. But
happily, both reason and experience assure us that a high
moral nature, a nobility of being, appearing habitually in
our actions, our conduct, and bearing towards all men,
command from all orientals such a respect as it is far
beyond the power of any number of moonshees, or of any
defects as to matters of etiquette and formality, to injure
in the least.—(1857.)
THE SCHOOL OF SMOOTH WORDS.
The strictest justice and fairness, with a generous libe
rality, should be followed; but a confident courage and
most uncompromising firmness should be shown in all
our dealings with these Asiatics. I have no patience
with the school of smooth words, low cunning, and pre
sent-making.
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In truth, it appears to me to be above all of the utmost
importance to England, that she be represented in this
country by straightforward, open, liberal English gentle
men, not by clever and cunning diplomatists.—(1857.)