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might havo as free access to distant markets as
her own.
If Great Britain has become, in any sonso, tho .
arbiter and guardian of the Gulf, it has not been
through a restless ambition urging her on to the
control of tho waste places of the earth, but in
obedience to tho calls that have been made upon
her in the past to enforco peace between warring
tribes, to give a free course to trade, to bold back
tbo arm of tho marauder and the oppressor, to i
stand botweon the slavo-dealor and bis victim.
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Part II.—POLITICAL.

Note.—The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and
Consul-General at Dushire.
This official qua Political Resident is under tho
Indiau Government; qua Consul-General under tho
Foreign Office. Tho cost of his establishment is divided
betwern the British and Indian oxehoquers.
As a Consular officer, tho Political Resident receives
Ill's Majesty’s commission os Consul-General for tho
Provinces of Far*, Khuzistnn, and Luristau, and tho
district of LingAh, and for the coasts and islands of
the Pereiau Gulf, being within the dominions of Persia.
He resides at Bushire, and receives an office allowance
of 120/. from Foreign Office funds.
The judicial powers and jurisdiction of the Political
Resident are exercised, by virtue of his commission as
Consul-Gcucrul, under the Persian Coast and Islands
Order in Council.
The Resident exercises an undefined but considerable
influence upon the political affairs, more especially
external, of Muscat, the Trucial States, Bahrein, and
Kowcit, at which places the Representatives of tho
Indian Govurunu-nt are under him.

(a.) Muscat, including the Musandim Peninsula.
At Muscat there is a Political Agent appointed by
the Government of Iudia, who also holds a commission
as Consul, under the Foreign Office. The cost of tho
establishment is borne by Iudiiui revenues.
Neither tbo coast-line nor tbo hinterland
of tho dominions of the Sultan of Muscat has
ever been delimitated or accurately ascertained.
In the British Couuter-Case, presented to The
Hague Tribunal in the Muscat Dhows Arbitra-