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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Title:: 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

Place of publication:: [London]

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Year of publication:: 1871

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194 APPENDIX TO REPORT FROM SELECT COMMITTEE Appsndix, Ko. 8. To His Highness Syud Thoweynee bin Saeed bin Sultni^ of Muscat.—His Hio-liness Syud Mojeed bin Saeed, of Zanzibar. ° Beloved and esteemed Friend, I ADDRESS your Highness on the subject of the unhappy diiferences which have arisen between yourself and your Highness’s brother the ¿“"of for «be settlement of which your Highness has engaged to accept the arbitration of the Viceroy and Governor General of India. Having regard to the friendly relations which have always subsisted between the Government of Her Majesty the Queen and the Governments of Oman and Zanzibar and desiring to prevent war between kinsmen, I accepted the charge of arbitrator between order to obtain the fullest knowledge of all the points in dispute, I directed the Government of Bombay to send an officer to Muscat and Zanzibar to make the necessary inquiries. . Brigadier Coghlan was selected for this purpose,—an officer in whose iudo-ment intelligence, and impartiality the Government of India reposes the utmost confidence. * Brigadier Coghlan has submitted a full and clear report of all the questions at issue between your Highness and your brother. I have given my most careful attention to each of these questions. The terms of my decision are as follows :— 1st. That his Highness Syud Majeed be declared ruler of Zanzibar and the African dominions of his late Highness Syud Saeed. 2nd. That the ruler of Zanzibar pay annually to the ruler of Muscat a subsidy of 40,000 crowns. 3rd. That his Highness Syud Majeed pay to his Highness Syud Thoweynee the arrears of subsidy for two years, or 80,000 crowns. I am satisfied that these terms are just and honourable to both of you; and as you have deliberately and solemnly accepted my arbitration, I shall expect that you will cheeriully and faithfully abide by them, and that they will be carried out without unnecessary delay. ^ The annual payment of 40,000 crowns is not to be understood as a recognition of the dependence of Zanzibar upon Muscat, neither is it to be considered as merely personal between your Highness and your brother it is to extend to your respective henceforward distinct and separate. I am, &c. (signed) Canning. (True copy.) Fort William, 2 April 1861. ^ (signed) C. U. Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India. Memorandum by the Acting Secretary to Government, dated the 15th April 1861 approved by the Honourable Board. ' furnist^tltv'S: may be Êgísammsss: 5. A letter

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