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TREATIES WITH MUSKAT. 249

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Article IV.
As there is a person of the French nation who has been for these
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several years in my service, and who hath now gone in command of
one of my vessels to the Mauritius, t shall, immediately on his return, ,
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dismiss him from my service, and expel him.
Article V.
In the event of any French vessel coming to water at Muskat, she
shall not be allowed to enter the cove into which the English vessels
are admitted, but remain outside the cove ; and in case of hostilities 1
ensuing here between the French and English ships, the army, and ::
navy, and people of this Government shall lake part in hostility with
the English, but on the high seas I am not to interfere. I
Article VI.
On the occurrence of any shipwreck of a vessel, or vessels, appertain­
ing to the English, there shall certainly be aid and comfort afforded
on the part of this Government,.nor shall the property be seized on. :•
Article VII. :
In the port of Bunder Abbas (Gombroon), whenever the English
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shall be disposed to establish a factory, making it as a fort, I have no :
objection to their fortifying the same, and mounting guns thereon, as
many as they list, and to forty or fifty English gentlemen residing
there, with seven or eight hundred English sepoys; and for the rest,
the rate of duties on goods, on buying and selling, will be on the
same footing as at Bussora and Abusheher.
Dated 1st of Jumadee-ool-Avoid 1213, Hijrec (or the 12th of October
1798, a. n.J.
Seal of His
Highness the
Imaum of
Muskat.

Further Treaty between the Honorable East India Company and
His Highness the Imaum of Muskat, concluded on the 18fA
January 1800.

Seal of His High-
ness the Imaum of
Muskat.

Agreement entered into by the Imaum of the State of Oman, the