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Appendix, No. 8, the slave trade in that quarter, might lose much of its efficacy through the jealousy of 
foreign Powers ; whereas, by inducing those Powers to join with us in a general scheme 
to that end, no such obstacles would arise, and the benevolent object in view might be 
realised. It will be for Her Majesty’s Home Government to decide whether the coalition 
here suggested is practicable, and, if not, to direct what ulterior measures on our part 
should be adopted for rendering more effectual the provisions of existing treaties. In the 
meantime, you will have opportunities during your mission for eliciting further informa 
tion on all particulars of the slave trade, and report the same direct to the Secretary of 
State for India, as well as to this Government, together with any recommendations for its 
suppression, which from acquired local experience, you may deem practicable and effi 
cacious. 
I have, &c. 
(signed) W. L. Andersoiif 
. Bombay Castle, 29 May 1860. Acting Chief Secretary. 
(Persian Department.) 
Translation of a Letter from His Excellency the Honourable Sir George Russell 
Clerk, K.C.B., Governor of Bombay, to his Highness Syud Thoweynee, Euler of Muscat,. 
dated 31st May 1860. 
A. C. 
I HAVE much pleasure in apprising your Highness, that arrangements have now been 
made for instituting the inquiries into the unfortunate differences which have arisen 
between yourself and his Highness your brother Syud Majeed at .Zanzibar, which are to 
precede the arbitration of the Eight Honourable the Governor General of India. 
Those inquiries have been entrusted to Brigadier Coghlan, our Resident at Aden, an 
officer in whom I place the highest confidence, and whom I have commissioned to report 
to this Government the result of his investigations. 
Your Highness will perceive in this appointment a satisfactory proof of the anxious 
desire of the British Government that its intervention should be exercised with perfect 
fairness and justice. As having been hitherto unconnected with the disputes pending 
between your Highness and his Highness Syud Majeed, Brigadier Coghlan’s investigations 
will be carried on with strict impartiality towards both pai ties ; moreover, his past experi 
ence of the Arab tribes at Aden, and the co-operation of the officers who have been 
associated with him in this commission, well versed as they are in the language, laws, and 
customs of the Arabs ; will be an additional assurance to your Highness that every pre 
caution has been taken to elicit such informations as shall enable the Right Honourable' 
the Governor General to decide with justice on your respective claims. 
Brigadier Coghlan proceeds immediately to Muscat, on this duty, and I commend him 
to your Highness as our commissioner, assured that you will not fail to receive him with 
the honour and respect due to his rank and office. Brigadier Coghlan on his arrival will 
install Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, an esteemed and trusted servant of this Government, as 
British agent to your Highness at Muscat, an appointment, which I am persuaded, will be 
highly acceptable to you, and during his residence there in that capacity, I anticipate your 
cordial co-operation with him in all matters connected with the interests of the British 
Government and its subjects within your territories. Brigadier Coghlan will then confer 
with your Highness on the object of his mission, and I would strongly urge on you the 
importance of placing implicit confidence in him in all your communications, reserving no 
information which may aid the Eight Honourable the Governor General in forming such 
a decision as may not only be in accordance with justice, but which in its results may tend 
to the re-establishment of peace between contending parties, and to the increased prosperity 
of all the subjects of his Highness the late Imam. 
Assuring your Highness that the British Government is now, as it has ever been, most 
solicitous to promote those objects throughout Oman and Zanzibar, I conclude with the 
usual salutations of respect. 
For the rest, &c. &c. &c. 
(True Copy.) 
(signed) Venayek Wassoodew, 
Oriental Translator to Government.