Geld-, Bank- und Börsenwesen

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Identifikator:: 1012149900

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-24397

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Obst, Georg http://d-nb.info/gnd/11759296X

Title:: Geld-, Bank- und Börsenwesen

Edition:: 30., völlig veränd. Neuauflage

Place of publication:: Stuttgart

Publisher:: C.E. Poeschel Verlag

Year of publication:: 1937

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 566 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

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Title:: Dritter Teil. Börse und Börsengeschäfte

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 201 (Secret Department.—No. 6 of 1861.) Appendix, No. From Reverend George Percy 13adger, in charge Muscat-Zanzlbar Commission, to A. K- Forbes, Esq., Acting- Secretary to Government, Bombay. Miiscat-Zanzibar Commission, Aden, 1 June 1861. I HAVE the honour to report, for the information of the Honourable the Governor in Council, that I reached Muscat from Bombay on the 11th ultimo. 2. His Highness Syud Thoweynee being absent at one of his country seats at the time, his Vizier immediately proceeded thither to inform him of my arrival. On the return of his Hio'hness to Muscat early the following morning, I paid him a complimentary visit, accompanied by Commander Cruttenden and several officers of Her Majesty’s steamer “ Zenobia,” when I formally introduced Lieutenant Pengelley to his Highness as the newly-appointed British Agent at Muscat. 3. Mr. Rassam had previously delivered to Syud Thoweynee the official letters of which I was the bearer, and I was gratified to perceive from his general demeanour on the occasion that he appeared highly pleased with their contents. At the termination of our visit, his Highness intimated to me that he had ordered all his vessels in the harbour to diiss ships in honour of the occasion : and a salute of 101 guns was fired to celebrate the auspicious termination of the long-pending dispute between himself and his brother Syud Majeed. 4. At several subsequent interviews, his Highness frequently reiterated how deeply he felt indebted to the generositv of the British Government for all the trouble and ex pense which the settlement of'this question had involved, and how highly he appreciated the impartiality of the final arbitrement. In reply to his inquiry how and when the awarded arrears of 80,000 crowns, and the yearly subsidy of 40,000 crowns, wouM be paid, I advised his Highness to come to a friendly understanding with his Highness Syud Majeed on the subject, and to appoint an Agent at Zanzibar to receive the money ; uiging him at the same time, in consideration of the embarrassed state of his brother’s finances, to exercise the greatest forbearance toward him In exacting payment. His Highness then asked whether the British Agent at Zanzibar was empowered to insist upon the terms of the arbitration being fulfilled by Syud Majeed. To this, I replied that the Supreme Government of India had directed the officers who should be charged with com- municatino- the decision of the Right Honourable the Governor General to his Highness and to hi? Highness’s brother, to impress upon them both that they were expected to abide faithfully by his Excellency’s award ; and that, although the Government was not bound to enforce the conditions of the arbitration by either party, I nevertheless enter tained no doubt that the influence of the British Agent at Zanzibar would be used, in a friendly manner, to see that the award was duly carried out. Subject to this qualification, 1 saw no objection to his Highness’ proposition, that the person whom he mio-ht authorise to receive the money from Syud Majeed should be recommended to Colonel Rigby’s good offices, through the British Agent at Muscat, and I accordingly requested Lieutenant Pengelley to communicate with Colonel Rigby in that sense as soon as his Highness should inform him that he had appointed a deputy to treat with Syud Majeed on the subject at Zanzibar. 5. Syud Thoweynee further inquired of me whether any arrangement had been made by the Government of India for the future succession to the Zanzibar sovereignty. Beino- aware of the general impression prevailing in these parts that Syud Majeed will not live tono-, and that it is by no means improbable that the chiefs and people of Zanzibar (many cj' whom are becoming notoriously disaffected towards him) might, in case of his death, elect Syud Thoweynee as his successor ; and suspecting, moreover, that Syud Thoweynee himself was not without some hope of the kind, I deemed it desirable to caution his Highness against fostering anticipations which might never be realised, and the enter tainment of winch might eventually expose him to the suspicion of attempting to infringe on the authority of the Zanzibar sovereignty. At the same lime, however, I did not hesitate to inform his Highness that the Right Honourable the Governor General in Council had purposely abstained from offering any opinion on the rule of the succession in Zanzibar, his Excellency having judged that to do so he must have travelled beyond the bounds of the question submitted to his arbitration. His Highness then put the case directly, whether, in the event of Syud Majeed’s death, and the people of Zanzibar elect ing- him in his stead, the British Government would oppose his succession ? Not feeling authorised to give a decisive answer to this query, I replied in general terms (premising that I expressed my personal opinion merely) that I did not believe the British Govern ment would interfere in such a case against the unanimous wishes of the people; at the same time I did not fail to impress upon his Highness that he would best secure the favourable sympathy of the British Government, now and hereafter, by restricting his 0 110 *^ * Cc aspirations

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