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been with him, and who found it nearly impossible to make up the difference existing
between thorn; indeed, so much bo, that Unborn bin Jnuba bad gone dowu to Maskat to lav
his caao before tho Iraaum and Abdella bin Ahmed had returned to Bahrein. Y
9. His Royal Highness, after tho signing of tho engagements now transmitted for tho
consideration of Government, sent me, ns a mark of honour and respect, a horse, sword, shawl
jubbn; at tho same time sont mo word that an officer would attend mo down to Bassadoro
charged with a similar mark of respeot for Colonel Kennett, that tho tribes in tho lower part
of tho Gulf may know tho amicable footing existing and tho respect Ilis Royal liighnoas
entertains for tho British force.
10. Tho Minister, Zikeo Khan, and his son, Kair-oollah Khan, have also sont a horso
each in n prosont, ami previous to my leaving this I shall make suitable returns to whoovor
it may be necessary, and shall 6cnd Ilis Rmal Highness an appropriate present on my
roturn to Bushire, not having any articles by me just now that will answer for that purpose.
11. Tho Prince having gono out to the Chemisafah on a hunting excursion for some
time, I deemed it o mark of respeot duo to wait on him there, and accordingly did so on
the 81st ultimo, acoompaniod by Lioutennut Hart of tho Pioneors, to pay my respects and
tako my leave previous to my quitting this city. IIo was much gratified at tho attention,
and very politely asked us to stay a few days in his camp, from which I excused myself as
being auxious to arrange matters for proceeding down to Bassadoro. He informed me ho
had directed Snduok Khan, bailee, to attend mo on tho way down and until I should arrive
at Bushiro, but desired I would not leave Shiraz for eight or ten days, to allow tho weather
to becomo a little cooler, which would check the epidemio cholera, which prevailed iu tho
route of the southern port9.
12. I returned hero from His Royal Highness’s camp yesterday, and purpose leaving
this on my way to Bassadoro about the 15th instaut, and liopo to be there by the end of the
month, when I shall have the honour to forward plan of my route down, which Lieutenant
Hart, whoaccompaoios me, has undertaken to keep and draw out.
13. I shall bo most happy to learn that my compliance with His Royal Highness’s
wishes in coming up to Shiraz and my conduct during my stay here inay meet the appro­
bation of Government, who, I trust, will sanotion and approve of the presents I must
necessarily make, and to wkioh every due attention to economy shall bo paid.
14. The horaeB which I have received shall bo disposed of on my arrival at Bassadore,
as it would have a bad appearance if I was to do so here, and tho sword aud shawl jubba
*1 shall retain at tho disposal of Government.
288. The following letter was addressed by the Secretary to tho Government
of Bombay, to Captain W. Bruco, Resident at Bushire, No. 1491, dated the
1st November 1822 :—
You have been already apprised by my letters dated tho 8th August and 28rd of
September of the Governor in Council’s disapprobation of your journey to Shiraz.
2. I am now directed to acknowledge tho receipt of your letter dated September 8rd,
and to communicate to you the observations and instructions which it has suggested.
3. The Governor in Council directs me to express his surprise that you should have
entered on a negotiation with the Prince at Shiraz which wur never contemplated by Gov­
ernment, and for which you were neither furnished with instructions nor with powers.
He observes that the treaty which has beeu the result of those negotiations is not only
unauthorized, but entirely inconsistent with the views of Government and with the obligations
of the public faith.
4. The treaty grounds your supposed mission on errors of the British Government,
which have never beeu admitted, aud on which tho Governor in Council is still uucousoious.
5. It admits the claim of the King of Persia to Kishm contrary to al^ history, to the
protections of Hie Highness the Imaum of Maskat, and to the repeated declarations of this
Government. It thereby admits the occupation of that island without the King of Persia’s
consent to have been an unjuat aggression, and it agrees to admit a Persian force into
Kishm, and to make over to the Persians the island which we receivod from the Imanm.
6. It acknowledges the King of Persia’s title to Bahrein, of which there is not the
least proof and whioh the British Government cannot assert without injuring the pretensions
of the Imaum and the Attabees. It promises our aid against every power possessed of an
island in the Gulf, and expressly against the Attabees, to whom wo are bound by a treaty of
friendship, and with whose conduct we have every reasou to be satisfled.
7. It canoels, as an encroachment on Persia, the part of Sir W. Keir’s treaty, by which
the Attabees are bound to oarry the flag of friendly Arabs; it places our voluntary payment
to tbo sufferers at Lingaon the footing of a concession to Persia; aud it makes tbe appoint­
ment of a Resident at Bushire a point of negotiation with the Prince of Shiraz.
8. The effect of this treaty would be to compromise tbe dignity of the British Gov­
ernment, and to overturn every part of the polioy which it has adopted in relation to tbe
power of the Persian Gulf.
9. The Governor in Council has, therefore, been obliged to disavow the treaty in the
most explicit terms; and the more clearly to mark his disapprobation of the whole proceeding