122 SIR B. 



Infantry, some of wliose men had endeavoured 

 to tamper with the men of the police. 



Sir Bartle Frere's minute on the subject of 

 the Sindh police so fully bears out the opinions 

 of Sir Charles Napier, that I am induced to give 

 the following lengthy extract therefrom : — 



'^ Sir Charles' leading idea appears to have 

 been, effectually to separate the police from the 

 magisterial functions, confining the police to the 

 duty of preventing or detecting crime, while 

 the magisterial authorities, European and Native, 

 were confined to the duty of investigating judi- 

 cially the cases brought before them by the 

 police. 



^^ The example which Sir Charles appears to 

 have generally kej^t in view was the Irisli con- 

 stabulary. But he had, long before coming to 

 Sindh, tried his plan among the inhabitants in 

 one of the Ionian Islands, where the population 

 was more Oriental than European in character 

 and habits. It was perhaps owing to the care- 

 ful consideration he had thus given to the subject 

 in earlier years, that he was able, immediately 

 after the conquest, at once to devise and carry 

 out an elaborate plan, involving a system pre- 

 viously untried in India, and which was so per- 



