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prison, ins object being, to-destroy tbo Khalifa family
and Secure the Government of Bahrein for himself. His
short-lived rule was one; of oppression and was distasteful
to the inhabitants of the. island, some of the principal
among whom, in despair,; petitioned-the British Govern­
ment to take them under .its. protection as its sub­
jects. Such an offer we naturally could not accede
to, but the breach of ,tho maritimo truce had been
so flagrant, and the necessity; of couvincing the
trucial Chiefs that we were ready to act up to the
promise which we had made in .1853 of protecting
tho Gulf from piracy and plundpr'V^as so urgent, that
with all possible despatchw6 • s6nV;off vessels of war to
call the pirate Chiefs to account;'1 The measures which
Colonel Pclly took under our authority in the course of
November were completely successful and ended in the
surrender of Mahomed bin Khalifa and Mahomed bin
Abdoolla, and in the assumption'of the Government of
Bahrein by Esau bin Ali, the spn of; the murdered Chief.
The captive Chiefs were sent to Bombay, and arc now
confined in the Port of Assccrghur. The third ringleader,
Nassir bin Mobarik, fled with a few followers
to the Wahabce coast. Of his escape we desired
the Ameer of Nejd to be warned, and to be told that
„ . , „ „ much of the property plundered
Tolcj’nun lo Cniourl lVIlv, 1 1 J *
dMoi io.i. ivrn.ii.cr i«c!t). at Bahrein had bccu openly taken
Knclosuro of Si’crot. «l.v*pnU-l. . . . , r -tr , c
No. XI, tinted 1U1. December tO tllC VValiabCC port 01 KutCCI.
18G9' This accordingly Colonel Pclly has
done, and by our wish lie has also expressed a hope that
such proceedings may be prevented iu future.
17. The letter from the English Foreign Office
, ,, , to the Persiau Gliarnc d'd/Taircs,
" It is tlio fncl, iw yourself mid t */ •
the Oorcrumont of iiiosimi. which we have alluded to above,
nro uudoublculy (vwnre, Hint-
Kt°(iHr«r«ni contain9 Mao the paragraph cited iu
S'fJ1KuWiZX tllc mnr8in- Wo cannot conceal
from ourselves that the words
• therein -which we have italicized
' ' not unlikely to engender in tho
mind -'bf the'Porsian Government
pretensions aild expectations which
°mif"Her'Major's Government can
■5.“”,“liiI"tir,0t“m”HWi,,S hardly'ii'tive'intended to givo an
not nrci:4r<ul lo .uiuli'rlnku . ! . ,
iiic«o duties, Her Mi\jr»iy'* opening for, and may not unpro-
8?«t°Mi!K bably * be 'interpreted at Teheran
IIiaI in tnftio wMamiliionli'r , , . \ % « .
•mi oriiurs should iw ..»• ns a .'tacit acknowledgment of
coumged hj imp j obsolctthcraiuiB which the Persian
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