"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٦‎٣‎٩] (١٧٨٢/٧٨٢)

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force on shore to be attacked by landing parties^ the eliips returned to
their former station. At daybreak on the 5th of July, however, a flotilla
of 30 Qasimi boats carrying- about 1,000 men entered the Qishm road
stead ; and here Captain Seton and Saiyid Badar immediately blockaded
them.
In the negotiations that followed the part of intermediary was Preliminary
assumed by Mulla Husain, Shaikh of Qishm. Captain Seton in the n g ia u
first place required that the losses suffered by British shipping should be
made good by the Qawasim; but, as they assured him that they could not
pay more than Rs. 10,000, and such a sum only by instalments, the question
of an indemnity was dropped. Eventually it was arranged that, if the
"Trimmer " were returned to Captain Seton at Masqat in 25 days, along
with a letter for the Governor of Bombay expressing the penitence of
the Qawasim, their inability to pay an indemnity, and their resolve to
abstain from piracy in future, a truce should be observed until the
Governors pleasure was known ; and that, if the Governor considered
the settlement satisfactory, the " Trimmer " should be retained by Gov
ernment and peace declared. Mulla Husain was anxious that Captain
Seton should have a personal interview on shore with Sultan-bin-Saqar,
Shaikh of the Qawasim, who was present; but Captain Seton avoided
compliance with this wish as he learned that further conditions, to enable
the Qawasim to visit India, would be pressed upon his acceptance.
Saiyid Badar was anxious to return to Masqat, and it is possible that
his impatience may have prejudiced the negotiations ; on his part he was
satisfied with a truce of 70 lays, after which he intended, according to
his own statement, to requite the Qawasim for the death of Saiyid Sultan
and to expel them entirely from Qishm and the other parts of his Persian
fief. "While the Masqat fleet was before Bandar 'Abbas the Qawasim
appear to have attempted a diversion by means of maritime raids on Sur
and Gwadar. -r. ,,
Eventually, in October 1805, an agent from Mulla Husain of Qishm
arrived at Masqat to negotiate on behalf of the Qawasim, and Captain ber 1805.
Seton applied for the instructions of the Bombay Government; these,
when received, were to the effect that any peace to which the Government
became a party should be of a universal character, extending to the
whole Gulf, and that full indemnification for past losses must m any
case be required.
First British treaty with the Qawasim, 1806.
The enforcement of these extensive demands, so disproportionate to
the impression which had as yet been made on the minds of the Gulf
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