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JOASMEES.
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41 In the following year the Imanm prepared an expedition .
against the port of Ras-ool-Khyma, for the purpose
A. D. 1813.
of reinstating the Joasmce Chief in his government
Shaikh Sultan promising that if His Highness would restore him to his
hereditary possessions and consequence lie would ever consider
himself as a vassal of the Imaurn and his allies, and would never again, 1
or his tribe, commit piracies. The Imaum requested that Mr. Bruce*
who was at Muskat, would accompany him to witness the treaty which
he should enter into with Sultan bin Suggur, and for the purpose also
of negotiating a treaty with the Joasmcc Chief on the part of the British
Government, which, as observed by the Imaum, would have more effect |
in keeping him to the performance of his engagements than anything
else, as Sultan bin Suggur was now aware of our determination not to
allow the slightest insult to pass unnoticed.
42. As the renewal of the treaty entered into by the Joasmee Chief
with Captain Seton in 1806 was deemed essential for restraining the
piratical acts of his subjects, Mr. Bruce was instructed to adopt the
necessary measures accordingly, and to contract similar engagements
with the other chieftains in the Gulf.
43. This expedition failed, and a second one, equipped in 1814, for
a similar purpose, terminated in a peace, con­
A. D. 1814.
cluded between the Imaum of Muskat and the
Joasmees, to which Shaikh Suggur was compelled to become a party.
He agreed, it is said, to His Highness possessing Ras-ool-Khyma, and
to his being established at. Shargah.
44. Mr. Bruce, on the 7th of August, forwarded a letter from Shaikh
Suggur, communicating the capture of the ship Ahmed Shah by the
Shaikh of Charrak, and requested good offices in favour of an Agent
he was deputing to the Prince at Shiraz, on business of importance. In
transmitting that letter, Mr. Bruce remarked that the Joasmee Chief,
who was residing at Lingah, was much attached to the British Govern-
ment. The only further account we have of this mission is contained
in a letter from the Broker at Muskat dated the 7th of November,
stating that the King of Persia had sent an honorary dress for Sultan bin
Suggur, to obtain his co-operation with Persia in the reduction of
Bahrein. on the trade,
45. In consequence of some depredations committed
remonstrances were transmitted to the Chiefs of the Wahabees and the
was re-

,h« he wee not aware that an, 'in. should”; “ro‘e be the
had been captured b, ^ w0„ld be restored but that
case, such properly as might be loiuicunui 5
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