Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Title:: Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

Place of publication:: [London]

Publisher:: [The House of Commons]

Year of publication:: 1871

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180 APPENDIX TO KEPOET FEOM SELECT COMMITTEE Appendix, No. 8. Appendix (F.) Appendix (G.) Appendix (H.) affaires étrangères. Laderniere lettre que vous nous avez écrite est une preuve nouvelle des vos sentiments affectueux à notre egarde, et du désir que vous animé de rendre de plus en plus intimes les rapports d’amitié établis entre nos deux pays. Nos dispositions sont parfaitement d’accord avec les vôtres, et nous aurons toujours a cœur de favoriser l’heureux dévelloppement des relations reciproques, et de vous donner des marques de notre estime et de notre bienveillance sur ce. Très illustre et magnifique Seigneur, nous prions Dieu qu’il vous ait en sa sainte et digne garde. Ecrit au Quartier Général de Verced, le 4me Juin de l’an de grace 1859- (signed) Napoleon. A. Wa lew ski. Appendix (F.) James Buchanan, President of the United States of America, to our great and good friend the Sultan of Zanzibar. May your days be many, and your reign he prosperous and glorious ! 1 have received the letter which your Highness was pleased to address to me on the 5th of November last, conveying the sad intelligence of the death of your honoured father, and announcing your own elevation to the exalted position which in life he so worthily occupied. In tendering to your Higness my sincere condolence on the former event, which has bereaved you of a beloved parent, and your subjects of a monarch whom they obeyed with reverence, I offer to you at the same time my sincere congratulations on your accession to the throne of the sultancy, and my fervent wishes that your reign may be prosperous and happy. T pray God to have you always, great and good friend, in His safe and holy keeping. Written at the City of Washington the 16th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1857, and in the 81st year of the independence of the United States of America. (signed) James Buchanan, President. L. Cass, Secretary of State. Appendix (Gr.) Translation of a Letter from Mahomed bin Salem to Luddah bin Damjee. From Mahomed bin Salem to our beloved friend Luddah bin Damjee, the Banian agent for our friend Ziram bin Sewjee, agent of the Customs of Zanzibar; may God preserve him I A. C.—Our brother Nasir bin All bin Taleb is coming to you on certain business, and we wish you to deliver to him the balance of the money in your hands on account of the draft which our brother Majeed bin Saeed drew on you for the aid (subsidy) to his brother Thoweynee bin Saeed. He is his (Thoweynee’s) man, and comes from him. Of the draft for the 40,000 crowns, 14,000 have been paid. Please to settle with him now for the remaining 26,000. ***** * * » * * From your unworthy friend Mahomed bin Salem with his own hand. 14 Rejeb 1274. (True Translation.) (signed) George Percy Badger. Appendix (H.) Translation of a Note from his Highness Syud Majeed to the Banian Ziram, authorising him to pay 40,000 crowns to Syud Thoiveynee every year. To our beloved fiiend Ziram, may God preserve him ! We have granted to our brother Thoweynee bin Saeed a subsidy of 40,000 crowns every year from the beginning of the year 1274, half (to be paid) during the south west monsoon, and the other half during the north east monsoon. You can transmit the amount from Bombay, and our friend Luddah will deduct it from us at Zanzibar. Written by the unworthy Majeed with his own hand. (True Translation.) (signed) George Percy Badger,

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