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at Moclia, and the nacoda, or captain of a vessel under charter
to the Company, which resulted in an Arab being detained for
a short tiuie at the ]>ritish Factory. This man was released on
a requisition iVom the Dowlah, or Governor, but no sooner had
ho left the building than the yard and factory were filled with
three or four hundred soldiers, who rushed upon the small
guard of marines from the ' Prince of Wales,' dragged them into
the street, and beat them in a most inhuman manner; they also
seized the captain of a merchant vessel then at the factory, and
subjected him to a like ignominious treatment. Lieutenant
Dominicetti, who was at this time confined to bed with a severe
fever, was attacked by the soldiery, who beat him with sticks and
the butt ends of their muskets until he was rendered insensible,
and finally dragged him naked and half dead, to the Governor's
house. Here every species of insult and contumely which could
be devised, was heaped upon him ; he was spat upon by the
infuriated mob, who saluted him with every term of abuse
which the Arabic language could supply, and was eventually
imprisoned, while the Residency was ransacked and pillaged.
The Bombay Government of course instituted an inquiry into
the conduct of the Governor of Mocha. Considerable delay
attended the investigation of the charges, and it was not until
the end of November, 1819, that the ultimatum of the Govern-
ment of Bombay was sent to the Imaum of Sanaa. This
required that His Highness should inflict a suitable punishment
on the late Dowlah of Mocha, who had been dismissed from
office, in presence of the Company's representative ; that pecu-
niary satisfaction should be made for the acts committed within
the Residency; and that several British seamen, who had deserted,
should be given up.
TheGovernor-Generalof India, who expressed regret that steps
had not been taken at an earlier period to obtain reparation,
authorized the despatch of a squadron to Mocha, to enforce the
reclamations of the Bombay Government, and directed that, in
addition to the demand for the punishment of the Dowlah, and
an indemnity for losses sustained, means should be adopted to
secure, for the future, the observance of respect to the British
Resident, and a clear understanding of the terms on which the
factory was to continue ; for this purpose certain terms* were
* The terms of tins treaty were as follows :
(1). That the Resident should have a guard of the same strength as at Bussorah
and Bagdad, to ensure his respectability.
(2). That all servants of the factory should enjoy British protection, and be
amenable only to the jurisdiction of tlie Resident.
(3j. That all Indian merchants should be under the protection of the British
flag, and all differences amongst themselves be settled by the Resident, or in the
event of any of the Imaum's svibjects being concerned in the disputes, by an
agent on tlie part of the local government and tlie Resident conjointly.
(4). That the Resident should be exempt from all degrading comphances ; that
he should have liberty to ride on horseback when and whei-ever he pleased, and