"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٩‎٢‎٢] (١٧٨٢/١٠٧٧)

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First Exclu
sive A g ree-
ment of the
Shaikh with
the British
Government,
22nd Deoem-
her 1880.
Final Exclu-
sive Agree
ment by the
Shaikh with
the British
Government,
13th March
1893.
We have mentioned above the Turkish scheme of 1879 for establish
ing- a coal depot in Bahrain and the subsequent visit of Turkish ships
to Bahrain in November 1880 ; and here we may add that there were about
the same time indications of an awakening interest in the Persian Gulf
on the part of several foreign powers, and that French, American and even
Japanese vessels had visited its waters. In these circumstances Colonel
Ross, the Political Resident, believing that Bahrain as one of the
principal commercial centres would soon become an object of foreio-n
attention, and finding on a visit to the islands that the Shaikh was
disposed to conclude a special arrangement with the British Government,
took the opportunity to obtain his signature to an Agreement which
he immediately submitted for the approval of the Government of India.
This Agreement, which was executed on the 22nd of December 1880^
bound the Shaikh to abstain from entering into negotiations or making
treaties with other Governments except by the sanction of the British
Government, and to refuse permission to any Government other than
the British to establish diplomatic or consular agencies or coaling dep6ts
in Bahrain territory, unless with the consent of the British Government
It was stipulated, however, that the engagement should not apply to or
affect customary friendly correspondence with the local authorities of
neighbouring states on matters of minor importance; and that the
va i i y o e Agreement should depend on its approval and acceptance
by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council. In justi-
exteTce of acti0n C*- 1 explained that the
British , oi t f beades being desirable from the
Pd o U ret 1 be C0UVenie " t t0 the Shaikh . ^
pon.t to it in refusing to aecede to the overtures that he might reeeive
Evssrr G " m "'" , " j »- m 4 ts
enter however fn , 7 " " rU,e ineXP * iient for ^ to
; t guardedly^ mto negotiations of such a kind without srecial
nstractions, recommended the Agreement to HW M * n
for acceptance; and, with the approval !f U S ^
India, it was ultimately ratified in 1881. ^
In 1892, in circumstances which arp ovWi„* j • ,.
Tracial 'Oman, Colonel Talbot, the Resident in the PersiaTa }(
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the Trucial Shaikh . n r Vernm , e!itS ' Sh0uld ^ included with
-nt of India, ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية * * the Govern-
Shaikh of Bahrain, on the 13th March 1892 of^ 'l 6,SnatUre ^ the
marcn 1892, 0 f a smadar document. In