Der gesetzgeberische Ausbau des Deutschen Reiches und seine Wirtschaftlichkeitspolitik

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Identifikator:: 861748913

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-91908

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huber, Franz http://d-nb.info/gnd/117535699

Title:: Der gesetzgeberische Ausbau des Deutschen Reiches und seine Wirtschaftlichkeitspolitik

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: Krais

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (79 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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12 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE Hon. C. Vivian. 13 July . 1871. Americans have taken any active part in the suppression of the slave trade in East Africa. 183-4. Do you know whether the consul is an American born subject ?—I cannot tell you that ; Mr. Churchill will probably be able to tell you. Then, 1 want to refer to a very Important point, about which, I think, you can get better evidence from Mr. Churchill. I said on Monday that I thought one of the chief levers to be made use of was the payment of a money compensation to the Sultan to induce him to give up his right to transport slaves by sea. Dr. Kirk, in a letter, dated December 24, 1870, (in the papers laid be fore Parliament in the early part of this year) advises us that there is another way of bring ing pressure to bear upon the Sultan. He says “ I think that we stand in a better position to bring his Highness to reason on the more weighty matter that will be pressed upon him, the suppression of the slave trade, on which I have as yet no reason to think that his Highness has altered his views. In re-opening the friendly relations between the Arab Government and British agency, I have allowed all advances to come from his side, and avoided compromising the advantage we hold in pressing important con cessions upon a prince who has once, in insulting terms, declined to discuss questions submitted to, and entered into, by his predecessor ; and who will be entirely in our hands the moment we choose to press the matter. My former intimate acquaintance with Seyed Burgash gives me little hope that he will give in without pressure, but this is easily applied through the commercial treaty, one half of the provisions of which have never been enforced. Should a favourable oc casion offer I shall sound his Highness on the slave question ; and the way has been prepared for further action by publishing in Arabic and Gujeratee an abstract of our treaty rights, which I had before submitted to Seyed Majid, at the time he hesitated to reduce the coast tax, then unequally levied on our subjects and the French. This abstract has been accepted by his Highness Seyed Burgash, as a fair embodiment of our treaty rights ; but so ignorant is he of the financial arrangements of his government, that he does not see that there are clauses which, when enforced, will deprive him of two-thirds of his revenue.” That means to say, if we insist upon the stipulations, which we have a right to insist upon, in this commercial treaty of 1639, we can deprive him of a great part of his revenue. That appears to me an important point to consider. 185. He considers himself bound by that Treaty of 1839 ?- Yes ; abstracts of it have been printed in Arabic and Gujeratee, which he has accepted as correct versions. Then I wish to read to the Committee two or three extracts from important despatches received since I last gave my evidence, which may be of use to the Com mittee. The first is dated from Zanzibar, the 20th of March this year. Dr. Kirk says, “ The whole subject (this is about the dis])Osition of liberated slaves), of the disposal of slaves on shore here, is one requiring much consideration and careful organisation before being practised to any extent. In the absence of some official thoroughly conversant with both the Zanzibar people and the tribes of the mainland, I consider that it would be most dangerous to allow so helpless beings, as a cargo of freed slaves, to go into the hands of any proprietor here. Properly directed, I believe, that a greater influence can be obtained for the abolition of slavery through those freed slaves than in any other way ; and nothing can be more disgraceful than the present mode of dealing with them at Aden and Bombay. I am certain however that it will be found ex pedient, if not necessary, so long as Zanzibar remains a free Arab government, for us to have a free settlement somewhere on the coast, possibly not an English possession, but certainly under our administration. On such a station only could a mass of freed slaves be properly and advan tageously dealt with for the first five years of their freedom, and a settlement of this nature on the coast, would be a break in the land route that will at once be opened when the sea trans port is prohibited and blockaded.” Next, as to the position of the slave trade. Dr. Kirk writes on the 4th of April this year, “ It is notorious how active are the preparations for the slave trade this season, and how utterly powerless the Sultan is to prevent the system of kidnapping, and secret slave dealing, that is carried on by and for the northern Arabs. Ko one more readily acknow ledges this than his Highness, who has of late seized in town 50 kidnapped slaves from the houses occupied by these Muscat people, but he knows that his officers are all open to bribes, and that although he can in a measure throw diffi culties in the way of their leaving the harbour, he has no power to stop the transport of slaves in 'small lots, to other places on the coast at which the slave dhows call. Unfortunately no suspicion attaches to native vessels leaving the harbour in ballast, as so many cargoes of wooden rafters and corn are collected for Arabia from creeks and harbours along the coast, but the ab sence of the usual bounties so foolishly given to the Arabs of Oman, by the late Seyed Majid, will prove some discouragement to their return next year.” Then Dr. Kirk writes on the 14th of April, "" Seyed Burgash said, that from the English he had no fear, so long as he adhered to the word of the old treaties ; these he said had been granted and could not be revoked, but that he well knew the English could not, and would not, force him beyond the text of what they had already got. He added that he fully expected they would write, talk, and threaten, possibly even send ships ; but he was perfectly at his ease, knowing that they would not use force, unless he gave them the excuse by de parting from what had been signed. Anti cipating, through the English, trouble from Muscat, he said he had made a compact with Toorkee, and that both of them understood each other and the English also, that the one would not be made the means of ruining the other. Seemingly in connection with the last subject, his Highness sent me the original of a letter he had received from Seyed Toorkee, and I am aware that he had sent to Muscat 20,000 dollars a few days ago. I have also been informed that the subject of the renewal of the Muscat subsidy was discussed in Durbar, on receipt of letters from the agent of Jairam in Bombay, informing Ludda Damji that Toorkee has, or will receive permission from Bombay to claim the subsidy with two years arrears, and if not paid, enforce it in his own way. But I think for the payment ol the subsidy Seyed Burgash is prepared. In all my former reports I have given Seyed Burgash the credit that is his due, for having cleared out a mass of iniquity and corruption in the course of laW

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