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654 SLAVE TRADE.

Agents, and others charged with the suppression of the Slave Trade
by English subjects ; such Consuls, Agents, or others, are to receive
the assistance, on application, of His Highness the Imaum, or his Lieute­
nant Governor, or others, for the apprehension and detention of all En
lish subjects who may attempt the traffic. g-
Article V.
That no individual may plead ignorance of the limit within which the
Slave Trade is confined, the Imaum to agree that all vessels under His
Highness’ flag, commanded or owned by any of his subjects, found
trading in slaves to the southward of the parallel of Cape Delgado, His
Highness’ most southern possession in Africa, or to the eastward'of a
line drawn from that cape, past the east point of the Isle Socotra, on to
the Persian shore, shall be liable to seizure and confiscation by any
of His Britannic Majesty’s cruisers, or officers of customs, or others
deputed by any of His Britannic Majesty’s governors, and dealt with
the same as if such ship or vessel seized was navigated under the
English flag.
Article VI.
His Highness the Imaum must engage to publish, in all the domi­
nions and dependencies of his Government, the present Treaty, and
to consider it equally binding on them all; and finally to agree that
the Treaty is provisional until ratified and confirmed by His Majesty’s
Ministers on the part of the King of Great Britain, which ratification
is to be fowarded without loss of time to His Highness the Imaum;
nevertheless the Treaty is to be carried into full effect from the present
date.
(Signed) Fairfax Moresby,
Captain, His Majesty’s Ship Menai.
Muskat, 29th August 1822.

Translation of an Arabic Paper prepared by His Highness the
Imaum of Muskat, and signed and sealed by His Highness on
the 7th September 1822, purporting to contain, on the one sidey
the substance of each of the above Requisitions made on His
Highness by Captain Moresby, and on the other, His Highness9

Assent to the same.
Answers under His Highness
Requisitions made on His High­
the Imaum of Muskat’s Hand and
ness the Imaum of Muskat, by
Seal, to the Requisitions made by
Captain Moresby, of His Majes­
Captain Moresby, of His Majes-
ty's ship Menai, Commissioner.