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Appendix, No. 8. Highness Syud Majeed. Since her departure, a communication has been received from
:— Colonel Rigby containing an application for leave on sick certificate, but expressing his
intention of remaining at Zanzibar until relieved.
6. With reference to paragraph 8 of the letter under acknowledgment, I am desired to
enclose a translation of a letter which has been addressed to his Highness Syud
Barghash, and of his Highness’ reply thereto. Syud Barghash is stilf residino- at
Bombay, where, for several reasons, his Excellency in Council considers it to be
expedient that he should remain until September or October.
7. I am directed to mention that the reports which Mr. Badger promises at the close
of his letter will be forwarded, for the information of the Government of India, as soon
as they are received.
I have, &c.
(signed) A. Kinloch Forbes,
Acting Secretary to Government.
(No. 171 of 1861.)
From A. Kinloch Forbes, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay, to the
Reverend G. P. Badger, Aden.
Sir, ^ Secret Department, 19 June 1861.
I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter. No. 6, dated the 1st instant,
reporting the proceedings adopted by you in carrying out the decision of the Right
Honourable the Governor General, as affecting his Highness Syud Thoweynee, on the
occasion of your visit to Muscat.
2. In reply, I am desired to inform you that the Honourable the Governor in Council
fully^ approves of your proceedings, and considers that you have treated the question
which forms the subject of paragraph 8 of your letter, and which is one of much delicacy,
with the utmost propriety and discretion.
I have, &c.
(signed) A. Kinloch Forbes,
• Acting Secretary to Government.
(No. 40 of 1861.)
From Lieutenant Colonel C. P. Rigby, Her Majesty’s Consul and British Agent,
Zanzibar, to A. K. Forbes, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay.
Secret Department, British Consulate, Zanzibar,
Sir, 29 June 1861.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter. No. 117 of 1861, Secret
Department, dated 30th April 1861, with accompaniments
as per margin, relative to the
decision of his Excellency the Viceroy and
Governor General of India on the disputes
between the rulers of Muscat and Zanzibar
on the one hand, and Muscat and Sohar
the other.
1. Resolution by the Honourable Board, dated 4th February 1861.
2. From Officiating Secretary to Government of India to the Chief
Secretary to Government, Bombay (No. 1532, Foreign Department),
dated 2nd April 1861.
3. Copy of letters from his Excellency Sir G. Clerk, k.c.b., Governor
of Bombay, to their Highnesses Syud Majeed bin Saeed, at Zanzibar,
and Syud Toorkee, at Sohar.
on
2. The above letter arrived here on the 14th instant, per Her Majesty’s steam-sloop
“ Semiramis,” and at the same time I received two letters to the address of his Highness
the Sultan Syud Majeed bin Saeed, of which one was from his Excellency the Viceroy
and Governor General of India, and the other from his Excellency the Honourable Sir
George Clerk, k.c.b.. Governor of Bombay.
3. I presented these letters to his Highness, at a durbar, on the 16th instant. After
he had perused them, I conferred with his Highness on the conditions of the arbitration,
and I pointed out to him the promising future in prospect for his dominions by the
removal of all apprehension of invasion or hostilities from Muscat. I also impressed on
him to take this opportunity of regulating his expenditure with more regard to economy,
and to no longer squander money he can so ill afford upon the northern Arabs, who are
the cause of so much apprehension and insecurity every year to the inhabitants of this
island. On taking leave of his Highness, I informed him that Her Majesty’s steamvessel
would remain here a few days for the purpose of conveying any replies his Highness
might wish to make to the letters which I had delivered to him.
4. His
