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APPENDIX TO REPORT FROM SELECT COMMITTEE
Appendix, No. 8. from liis Lordship the Governor General of India and his Excellency the Governor of
Bombay, conveying to me the intelligence of the setderaent of the disputes which existed
between myself and my brother Thoweynee bin Saeed, and regarding the decision that I
shall pay to my brother Thoweynee the sum of 40,000 crowns annually, and also the sum of
80,000 crowns on account of arrears for two years. I agree to pay these sums, and I
accept and am satisfied with the terms of the decision, and they are binding on me. And
it is the desire of the British Government (Janab el Sirkar) that each of us, that is, myself
and my brother Thoweynee, shall be independent of each other in his own dominions," and
sultan over his own subjects; that is to say, that Zanzibar and the islands (Pemba and
Monfea) and the dominions on the continent of Africa dependent upon it shall be subject
to me, and that Muscat and its dependencies, with the land of Oman, shall be subject to
my brother Thoweynee bin Saeed ; and that we shall dwell in peace and friendly alliance
the one with the other, as is customary between brothers. I pray that it may beso, if it
please God. I feel very much obliged to the British Government for all its kindness and
iavour, and for having averted from my dominions disorders and hostilities. During my
lifetime I shall never forget the kindness which it has shown to me.
And now what t desire from you is this, that you will mention to his Lordship the
Governor General of India that he should kindly determine that the payment of the 40,000
crowns per annum to my brother Thoweynee shall be settled as follows, viz., that 20,000 crowns
shall be due and payable each year at the “ Mousini ” (about April, when the south-west
monsoon sets in), and that the other 20,000 crowns shall be due and payable each year at
the Da ma ni ” (about September-October, when the annual accounts are made up, and the
revenue from the customs is paid), in like manner as 1 before agreed to do when 1 made
the arrangement through iny cousin Mahomed bin Salim to pay 40,000 crowns annually
to IMuscat.
And respecting the 80,000 crowns arrears for two years, that it shall be paid as soon as
I can possibly do so.
This I desire, in order that there may be no grounds of dispute hereafter.
This is what I wish for from the friendship of the Government.
And for whatsoever you may desire from me the sign is with you.
Fiom the confiding slave in God’s mercy—
(signed) Mojeed hin Saeed.
Written on the 19th day of the month of Zilhuz, in the year 1277 of the Hegira, corresponding
to the 29th June A.d. 18G1.
(True translation.)
. (signed) C. P. Righy, Lieutenant Colonel,
Her Majesty’s Consul and British Agent, Zanzibar.
British Consulate, Zanzibar, 29 June 1861.
(No. 60 of 1861.)
(Office No. 196.)
From A. Kinloch Forhes, Esq., Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay, to the
Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, Fort
William.
Secret Department, Bombay Castle,
Sir, _ ^ 24 July 1861.
In continuation of the letter from this Department, dated the 19th ultimo. No. 48, I
am directed to forward to you, for submission to the Eight Honourable the Governor
General in Council the accompanying copy of a letter, with enclosure, dated the 29th
idem, from Lieutenant Colonel C. P. Eigby, Her Majesty’s Consul and British Agent
at Zanzibar, announcing that his Highness Syud Majeed had accepted the terms of his
Excellency the Viceroy’s arbitration relative to the matters in dispute with his Hio-hness’
brother Syud Thooweyee bin Saeed, the ruler of Muscat. °
2. In transmitting this Despatch, I am desired to express the satisfaction of the
Honourable the Governor in Council at the cordial spirit in which the Viceroy’s arbitration
of the long-pending differences between these powerful chiefs on the cast coast of
Africa and Arabia has been received.
3. As it appears desirable on the approaching departure of Captain Lewis Felly for
Zanzibar that he should be made the hearer of a communication to the Sultan, it is proposed
to address his Highness, conveying a general approval of his very becoming letter
to Lieutenant Colonel Eigby, and expressing the assurance of this Government that they
will soon bave the pleasure of transmitting the Viceroy’s favourable notice of his Highness’
frank acceptance of the arbitration, and of the reasonable accommodation which he
has solicited.
4. It
