"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٤‎٧‎٨] (١٧٨٢/٦٢١)

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Meanwhile the " Coromandel " was sent from Bombay with Colonel
Disbrowe, Political Agent, to assist British subjects who might be in
dang-er at various places in 'Oman; and police were despatched from
Karachi for the protection of British interests at Gwadar, where much
alarm was felt.
Relations of Salim with the British Government, 1866-68.
Mission sent
by S&Iim to
Bombay, 1st
April 1866.
British sub •
jects per
mitted to
return from
India to
Masqat, Maj
1866.
Recognition
of Salim and
reinstitntion
of the British
Political
Agency at
Masqat, Sep-
tembei' 1866.
Masqat
Order in
Council, 1867.
In April two envoys of respectable position arrived at Bombay with a
letter from Saiyid Salim, in which he prayed that his position as the
successor of Thuwaini might be recognised by the British Government
and protested against the hostile attitude of the British Resident in the
Gulf. The Government of Bombay in their reply, which was signed by
a Secretary only and was addressed to the envoys instead of to Salim,
ignored the Saiyid's main request; but they refrained from charging him
with parricide, and they mentioned their expectation that British subjects
in 'Oman would be protected as in the past.
Eventually in May, chiefly on the representations of Indian merchants
accustomed to carry on their business in J Oman, the Government of
India authorised the appointment, as a temporary measure, of a Native
Agent at Masqat instead of the usual British officer j and it was inti
mated to British Indian refugees in India that they were at liberty to
leturn to Masqat and to resume their commercial dealings there.
In the following September Colonel Pelly, under the orders of Govern
ment, visited Masqat and formally recognised Saiyid Salim as Sultan of
Oman; the new Native Agent, Muhammad Baqir Khan, was installed
in his post; and the British flag was again hoisted over the Agency
quarters. The new Agent died in January 1SG7 and was succeeded, after
a short interval, by a British officer in the person of Captain Atkinson.
The Consular powers of the British representative at Masqat were
defined by an Order in Council, passed at Windsor on the 4th of Novem
ber 1867.
Rebellions of Saiyid Turk! and Hamad-bin -Saiim, 1867-68.
Attempt by ^ nch WaS the P osition of affairs when the position of Salim began to
Turki to 1)0 actively disputed by his uncle Saiyid Turki. Turki first sought the
Sohsr. ^ ie Shaikhs of Trucial 'Oman, but they were cautioned by the