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might imvo as free access to distant markets as
her own.
If Great Britain has become, in any senso, the
arbiter and guardian of the Gulf, it has not been
through a restless ambition urging her on to the
control of the waste places of the earth, but in
obedience to the calls that have been made upon
her in the past to enforco peace between warring
tribes, to give a free course to trade, to bold back
tho arm of tho marauder and the oppressor, to
stand between the slavo-doaler and bis victim.

Part II.—POLITICAL.

Note.—The Political Resident in the Persian Oulf and
Consul- General at Dushire.
This official qua Political Resident is under tho
Indiau Government; qua Consul-General under tho
Foreign Office. Tho cost of his establishment is divided
between the British and ludiun oxchoqucrs.
As a Commlar officer, the Political Resident receives
His Majesty’s commission as Consul-General for tho
Proviueea of Fars, Khuzistnn, aud Luristun, and tho
district of LingAh, and for tho coasts and islands of
tho Persiau Gulf, being within the dominions of Persia.
Ho resides at Bushire, and receives an office allowance
of 120/. from Foreign Office funds.
The judicial powers and jurisdiction of the Political
Resident ure exercised, by virtue of his commission as
Consul-Geucrul, under the Persian Coast and Islands
Order in Council.
The Resident exercises an undefined but considerable
influence upon the political affairs, more especially
external, of Muscat, tho Trucial States, Bahrein, and
Kowcit, at which places the Representatives of tho
Indian Government are under him.

(a.) Muscat, including the Musandim Peninsula.
At Muscat there is a Political Agent appointed by
the Government of India, who also holds a commission
as Consul, under the Foreign Office. The cost of tho
establishment is borne by Indian reveuucs.

Neither tho coast-line nor tho hinterland
of tho dominions of the Sultan of Muscat has
ever been delimitated or accurately ascertained.
In the British Counter-Case, presented to The
Iiaguo Tribunal in tho Muscat Dhows Arbitra-

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