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effect of such a communication will be to confirm the General in acting upon his present
instructions, so long as they shall remain unrccalled and unmodified by the high authority
from whom they issue. J
[D) Measures for the protection of Bassidore.
194 A. The Government of India in their letter No. 31, dated 13th January
1857, requested the Bombay Government
Volumes XIII and XIV—57 of 1857.
that the importance of protecting Bassidore
should be strongly impressed upon the naval officers in command in the Persian
Gulf, inasmuch as it would be useful not only as a coaling station but as a port
of call for orders and information at the entrance of the Gult when our force would
be divided at the head of the Gulf. Measures were accordingly to place a
detachment of troops at the Bassidore.
(xxv) The Treaty of 1857.
195. The terms of the treaty between Persia and Great Britain provided
See pages s 18«119 of Maj ior Bell’s account for certain apologies being made by the
Aitchison's Treaties, Vol lumc X. Persia, No. Persian Government to our Minister and
XVIII (Article 10, and aepaiate note).
certain formalities to be observed on his
reception at the Persian Court. The rest of the treaty provides guarantees for
non-interference of the Persian Government in Herat Affairs. Articles 9 and 1a
make provision for important consular and commercial privileges to the same
extent as the most favoured nation :—
A rticle 9.
The high contracting parties engage that, in the establishment and recognition erf
Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents, each shall be placed in the
dominions of the other on the footing of the most-favoured nation; and that the treatment
of their respective subjects and their trade shall also, in every respect, be placed on the
footing of the treatment of the subjects and commerce of the most-favoured nation.
Article 12,

Saving the provisions in the latter part of the preceding article, the British Govern­
ment will renounce the right of protection hereafter of any Persian subjects not actually in
the employment of the British mission, or of British Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-
Consuls, or Consular Agents, provided that no such right is accorded to or exercised by
any other foreign powers ; but in this, as in all other respects, the British Government
requires, and the Persian Government engages, that the same privileges and immunities
shall in Persia be conferred upon and shall be engaged by the British Government, its
servants and its subjects, and that the same respects and consideration shall be shown for
them, and shall be enjoyed by them, as are conferred upon and enjoyed by and shown to
the most-favoured foreign Government, its servants and its subjects.

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