Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre

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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Identifikator:: 1024891038

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-59598

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Author:: Wygodzinski, Willy http://d-nb.info/gnd/117348171

Title:: Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre

Edition:: Dritte, durchgearbeitete Auflage

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verlag von Quelle & Meyer

Year of publication:: 1920

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ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 129 (^o. 165 of 1860.—Secret Department.) From //. L. Anderson, Esq., Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay, to • Brigadier Coghlan, Resident at Aden. Sir, Bombay, 29 May 1860. I AM directed by the Honourable the Governor in Council to transmit to you copies of the additional correspondence* possessed by this Government relative to the affairs of Muscat and Zanzibar. I also enclose a letter from the Honourable the Governor in Council to the address of Syud Thoweynee of Muscat, accrediting you to his Highness as charged with the duty of inquiring into the disputes pending between the actual rulers of Muscat and Zanzibar, and also of installing Mr. Hormuzd Rassam as British agent at the former place, until further orders. The Honourable the Governor in Council desires me to state that the annexed translation of the letter referred to, will furnish you with a general idea of the principles on which your inquiries are to be based, as also of the objects contemplated by the Right Honoura ble the Governor General, in acceding to the request of the contending parties to mediate between them by arbitration. Those objects have respect mainly to securing the permanent peace, prosperity, and independence of the territories comprehended within the dominions of the late Imaura Syud Saeed, and to the maintenance of that legitimate influence therein to which our long friendly relations with the Muscat state fairly entitle the British Govern ment. The Honourable the Governor in Council considers it superfluous to add any further instructions for your guidance in conducting this investigation; but your experience will enable you to estimate fairly the value of the rival claims to the sovereignty of Zanzibar and its dependencies, and to suggest such an adjustment of existing disputes on that important point, as may bo satisfactory to both parties, most conducive to the general welfare of the people and tribes hitherto subject to the Tmamship of Muscat, and witlial, best calculated to maintain peace and to ensure the furtherance of our just interests in Oman, and along the Eastern Coast of Africa, dependent on Zanzibar. You are accordingly requested to associate with the report of your inquiries whatever arrangement you may deem most effectual towards the attainment of those desirable results, stating explicitly and in detail the ground on which your oj^inions are formed. The Honourable the Governor in Council has to regret that the latest intelligence received via the Persian Gulf represents Syud Toorkce of Sohar, as engaged in nego tiations for eventually disposing of that principality to the Ameer of the Wahabees. Considering that Syud Toorkee’s rule over Sohar during the lifetime of his father, the late Imam, was merely that of a local governor appointed to administer the affairs of that province in behalf of the souzerain, it is fairly questionable whether he possesses any valid right to be independent of Muscat, much less to effect such a transfer of Sohar as he is re})orted to be meditating. It is to be presumed that Syud Toorkee rests his claim on grounds analagous to those put forward by Syud Majeed as entitling him to the sovereignty of Zanzibar, and as these latter are to be made the subject of investigation in order to the final arbitration of the Right Honourable the Governor General, it is most desirable that the district of Sohar should not be alineated until his Lordship’s decision has been made. Moreover, such an alineation might endanger the security of Muscat and its other dependencies, and the ascendancy of the Wahabees would inevitably be 1 olio wed by the most disastrous results throughout Oman, destructive alike of the peace of that province, and of the maritime security of the Persian Gulf. On arriving at Muscat you will be able to ascertain what Syud Toorkee’s real inten tions are in this respect, and you are hereby authorised by the Honourable the Governor in Council, to take such steps as you may deem most effeetual for arresting the projected transfer of Sohar to the Wahabees. A letter of counsel and expostulation may suffice ; but in case of persistency, you will make known to that chief that the British Govern ment will regard with displeasure any course of action on his part which threatens to disturb the present peace, and to involve the country of Oman in civil war and bloodshed. Frequent opportunities will be afforded you during the existence of the Commission for inquiring into the actual state of the slave trade on the Eastern Coast of Africa, and the knowledge thus acquired will enable you to suggest some more effectual means for its extirpation than those now in force. The extent to which it is still carried on in that quarter, shows that a revision of the existing treaties with the late Imaum is imperatively called for, ^ before this nefarious traffic can be suppressed ; but the Honourable the Governor in Council is of opinion that until the question relative to the sovereignty of Zanzibar has been finally settled by the arbitration of the Right Honourable the Governor General, it is not desirable that you should initiate any measures to that effect. Moreover, recent proceedings on the coast indicated, render it more and more obvious to the Honour able the Governor in Council that any separate treaty on our part for the suppression of 0.116. R the Appendix, No. 8. • Forwarded with Secret Despatch from this Govern ment, dated the 7th J une, No. 24 of1860.

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