"أوراق تتعلق بتجارة الرقيق على الساحل الشرقي لأفريقيا والنظام المتبع لكبحها" [و‎‎٦‎٣] (٧٢/٦٥)

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A copy of this correspondence has been furnished to the Government of Bombay, for
their information and guidance.
I am, &c.
(Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE.
No. 70.
Mr. Merivale to Mr. Otway.—(Received June 18.)
(Confidential.)
gi r ^ India Office, June 18, 1869.
I AM directed by the Duke of Argyll to acknowledge the receipt ot your letter of the
5th instant, calling for information as to the condition and distribution of the slaves that
have been liberated at the Mauritius, the Seychelles, Aden, and Bombay; and his Grace
desires me to state, in reply, that instructions will be addressed to the authorities at
Bombay and Aden to furnish this office with the necessary information, which will be
forwarded to your Department immediately after its receipt.
I am, &c. '
(Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE.
No. 71.
The Earl of Clarendon to Lieutenant-Colonel Dishrowe.
(No. 1.)
Sir^ Foreign Office, June 22, 1869.
I HAVE received your despatch of the 30th of April last (No. 247 of 1869) stating,
that no Sultan and no Government having yet been recognized at Muscat by Her Majesty's
Government, doubts have arisen in your mind as to how far you are justified in adjudi
cating in the matter of slaves or suspected slavers seized within dominions appertaining
to the Sovereign of Muscat, and you request instructions for your guidance on this
subject.
I have, in reply, to state to you, that the fact of the present Ruler of Muscat not
having been recognized by Her Majesty's Government, in no way affects the policy of
Her Majesty's Government towards that State, in regard to the suppression of the Slave
Trade ; and you should, therefore, continue to act in carrying out the provisions of the
Consular Jurisdiction Act, and in adjudicating in the cases of captured slaves and suspected
slavers in the same manner that you would have done if the present Ruler of Muscat had
been recognized by Her Majesty's Government.
I have further to inform you that the Secretary of State for India concurs in the
opinion that your Consular jurisdiction is in no way affected by the existing state of affairs
in Muscat, and that the Duke of Argyll has written in this sense to the Governor of
Bombay.
1 am, &c.
(Signed) CLARENDON.
No. 72.
Mr. Otway to Mr. Merivale,
Sir, Foreign Office, June 22, 1869.
WITH reference to your letter of the 14th instant, I am directed by the Earl of
Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before his Grace the Duke of Argyll, the
accompanying copy of a despatch which his Lordship has addressed to Lieutenant-
Colonel Disbrowe relative to the doubts entertained by that officer in regard to his
jurisdiction in matters of Slave Trade in the present state of our relations with the Sultan
of Muscat.*
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. J. OTWAY.
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