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. Gulf put a stop to the expedition which was then
being prepared by the lmaum of Muscat against
Bahrein.
But, 'in the following year (1821), the Bahrein Colonel Shoil, No. 42 of 1845.
Chiefs agreed to pay 30,000 German crowns
tribute annually to the .lmaum of Muscat, who, in *
return, engaged to release some of the Utloobcc
Sheikhs detained by him, and to restore all the To Colonel Shell, No. 38;
September 23, 182.r>.
vessels and property belonging lo Bahrein which he
had put under an embargo on their way up from
Indiq.;.. but 12,000 crowns of this tribute were
subsequently remitted.
The India Ofiicc have stated that, in 1825, the. India Oflico Lettor, April 29,
Persians laid claim (o the sovereignty of the island,
and that the British Government refused to recog­
nize the claim, but I find no trace of this in our
correspondence.
In 1828 another expedition was fitted out by the
lmaum of Muscat against the Island of Bahrein,
wliilch was signally defeated.
THe following year peace was concluded bctv'ccn
the Uttoobpes and the lmaum. It was thereby
agreed that the tribute formerly paid to the lmaum
should cease, and that no interference whatever
should take place in each other's concerns.
In 1830- the Wahubccs called upon the Sheikh of
Bahrein to pay the annual tribute. Other demands
were at the same time made on the Sheikh Abdullah
by the Wababccs; when it was ultimately agreed
that the supremacy of a certain Ameer Toovkey bin
Savod should he acknowledged at Bahrein, and that
the tribute should be paid by the Uttoobccs, in
return for which protection was promised to them.
In 1833 fresh quarrels arose: the Sheikh of
Bahrein refused allegiance to the Wababccs, and
resolved to retaliate all attempts at aggression, and
upon this occasion the lmaum of Muscat pledged
himself npt to interfere in the quarrel.
It may here'be mentioned, as bearing oil the Hcrulct’* Treaties,vol. tmi,
. question" of the British proceedings in the Persian ,p’
Gulf, that, in 1838 and 1839, various engagements .
were entered’- into by the local Sheikh for the
suppression :of the Slave Trade.
/ Intrigues and conspiracies continued to increase ^ No 42 of 18„{.
' in i Bahrein .during the next *w years, unt.I at ,l|(lia no,rd> Allglllt 3, ,8.19.
jengt^in 1839, t},c Egyptian commander announced ^ „iNo.Mof 183:).
to^the British Resident in the Persian Gulf his