"أوراق تتعلق بتجارة الرقيق على الساحل الشرقي لأفريقيا والنظام المتبع لكبحها" [و‎‎٤‎١] (٧٢/٢١)

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of the highest Chiefs of Zanzibar, and Hajee Mahommed Bakushmir, the Private
fcecretaty to His Highness, together with nine Arab attendants.
4. Fiom the high rank and position at Zanzibar of the members selected to form this
mission, it is evident that His Highness the Sultan attaches the highest importance to its
being received with due consideration by Her Majesty's Government.
j 5. I herewith inclose a letter to your Lordship's address from Her Maiestv's Consul
and Political Agent at Zanzibar, which was conveyed by the Envoy.
6. The Envoy is the bearer of a letter from His Highness the Sultan to Her Majesty,
and also of one from His Highness to your Lordship, and he has desired me to request
your Lordship to kindly appoint a time for an interview to deliver them in person.
i, / a EnVOy haS ex P ressed to me the de sire of His Highness the Sultan that I
should officiate as the medium of communication between the mission and your Lordship
ap therefore, be most happy to do so if it should meet with your Lordship's
India 8 1 rep0rted the arrival of tlie m ission to Her Majesty ? s Secretary of State for
I have, &c.
(Signed) C. P. RIGBY, Major-General,
Late Her Majesty's Consul and Political Agent, Zanzibar.
No. 18.
Mr. Egerton to Mr. Merivale.
Sir ' t a i \/r /r i i -i , j ~ , Foreign Office, November 20, 1868.
1 AM directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you in original, to be laid before
secretary Sir Stafford Northcote, the accompanying despatch, and its inclosures, from
Captain Atkinson, the Acting British Consul at Muscat, reporting that Svud Salim, the
Sultan of Muscat, has been deposed by his brother-in-law Syud Azan 'bin Ghes, and
expelled the country; and with reference to the correspondence as marked in the maroin *
which has passed between this Department and the India Office upon the question of
releasing the Sultan of Zanzibar from the obligation which His Highness is under to pay
an annual subsidy to Muscat, I am to request that you will state to Sir Stafford North
cote that it appears to Lord Stanley that the deposition of Syud Salim offers a favourable
opportunity for releasing the Sultan of Zanzibar from the obligation to pay the subsidv in
question, and of thus enabling Her Majesty's Government to make terms with His
Highness for the gradual abolition of the Slave Trade in his dominions.
I am, &c.
(Signed) E. C. EGERTON.
No. 19.
Mr. Egerton to Major-General Rigby.
^ r ' J aa/t i i T , 0 , ' Foreign Office, November 2\, 1868.
i AM directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th
instant announcing the arrival in London of a Mission from His Highness Sayud Maiid
. kaid, fcultan of Zanzibar, and requesting his Lordship to appoint a time for 'an
interview; and I am, in reply to request that you will be good enough to acquaint Sayed
Mahomed bin Sahm, the head of the Mission, that his Lordship will be happy to receive
him and his suite at the Foreign Office on Wednesday next the 25th instant, at 1 o'clock
1 am further to request that you will express to Sayed Mahomed bin Salim, Lord
^ ret at t j e l has taken place in appointing a time to receive him
winch has been caused by his Lordship's unavoidable absence from London connected with
his election.
I am to add that it will afford his Lordship much pleasure to receive you as a
medium of communication between the Mission and Her Majesty's Government.
I am, &c.
(Signed) E. C. EGERTON.
[341] * ^ June 4; India 0ffice » June 25 and July 2. 1868.
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