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ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA).
4. His Excellency in Council trusts to your discretion and judgment for giving due Appendix, No. 8.
effect to the terms of the arbitrement as affecting his Highness Syud Majeed.
5. It has been deemed advisable, in the absence of Brigadier W. M. Coghlan, to depute
the Rev. Gr. P. Badger to Muscat for the purpose of delivering the Governor General’s
arbitration to his Highness Syud Thoweynee and for other purposes. The services of Her
Majesty’s Indian Navy steamer “ Zenobia,” which vessel is under orders to proceed to
Aden, will be made available for the conveyance of Mr. Badger to Muscat. After his
arrival at that place, the Rev. Mr. Badger will use his own discretion as to the propriety
of proceeding in person to Sohar, for the purpose of making known to Syud Toorkee the
decision of the Government of India in his case. A letter addressed by his Excellency
the Governor to the Chief of Sohar is enclosed for your information.
6. In accordance with the intimation made in the 15th paragraph of the letter from the
Supreme Government, his Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint
Lieutenant Pengelley, of the Indian Navy, to be British Agent at Muscat, and to
vest him with authority, independent of the Resident in the Persian Gulf, as the representative
of the British Government at Muscat and its dependencies.
7. In consequence of this result of the Governor General’s arbitration, their Highnesses
Syuds Thoweynee and Majeed will henceforth be designed Sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar
respectively.
I have, &c.
(signed) A. K. Forhes,
Acting Secretary to Government.
(No. 1620 of 1861.)
From A. Kinloch Forbes, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay, to
Lieutenant W. M. Pengelley, Indian Navy.
Sir,
I am directed to inform you that the Honourable the Governor in Council has been
pleased to appoint you British Agent at Muscat on a salary of 600 rupees per mensem,
with an allowance of 100 rupees for a writer and boat-hire.
2. Instructions will be furnished to you in a few days for your guidance in the conduct
of your duties at Muscat.
3. You are requested to prepare yourself to proceed to your destination by Her
Majesty’s steamer “ Zenobia,” which vessel will call intermediately at Muscat on her way
to Aden.
I have, &c.
(signed) A. Kinloch Forbes,
Bombay Castle, 24 April 1861. Acting Secretary to Government.
(No. 1665 of 1861.)
From A. Kinloch Forbes, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay, to
Lieutenant W. AI. Pengelley, Indian Navy, British Agent at Muscat.
Sir, 1 May 1861.
With reference to paragraph 2 of my letter No. 1620, dated the 24th ultimo, I am
directed by the Honourable the Governor in Council to communicate to you the following
observation* and instructions.
2. In consequence of the disunion of Muscat and Zanzibar after the death of the late
Imam Syud Saeed, and the general inefficiency of the late Native Agent durincr the
events which followed, this Government found it necessary, in the early part of 1859, to
vest the Resident in the Persian Gulf with the control of our political relations with
Muscat.
3. Subsequently, in March 1860, on the appointment of the Commission presided over
by Brigadier Coghlan, for the investigation of the questions in dispute between the rulers
of Muscat and Zanzibar on the one hand, and Muscat and Sohar on the other, Mr. H.
Rassam was deputed to Muscat as Acting British Agent, principally with the view of
facilitating the important duties entrusted to the Commission.
4. The rival parties having agreed to abide by the arbitrement of the Right Honourable
the Governor General, after due inquiry regarding their respective claims had been
made, and the Government of India having now communicated the terms of the Governor
General’s decision, his Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to entrust
the Rev. Mr. Badger with the delivery to his Highness Syud Thoweynee of the arbitration
as affecting his Highness’s claims. On the completion of this duty Mr. Badger will determine
the propriety of proceeding to Sohar for the purpose of making known to his
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