شؤون زنجبار [و‎‎١‎٤‎٣] (١٠/١)

To
His Guace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, K. T.,
Tier Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
Simla, the 17 th October 1871.
My Lord Duke,
In continuation of our Secret Despatch No. 63,
dated 10th October 1871, we do ourselves the honor to forward, for
the information of Her Majesty’s
* From Government of Bombay, No. 3B9, Government, COPV of a COrreSDOnd-
dated 14th October 1870. > U J I
(Proceedings, Political A, November 1870, Nos. 65 & 66.) CI1CG' 4 ' with the Government of
To Government of Bombay, No. 985 P,
dated 23rd May 1871.
Bombay, regarding the extent to
(Bnclosure o f Secret despatch No. 2 7, dated SSrd IVIay w } 1 i C ] 1 Mr. Churchill, While Political
- Agent at Zanzibar, had communi-
Erom Government of Bombay, No. 15, °
dated eth September i87i. cated to the Sultan, the opinion en
tertained by Her Majesty’s Government as to the subsidy paid by
Zanzibar to Muscat.
2. We earnestly hope that it may even yet be possible for Her
Majesty’s Government to accept the views which we have so often
and so strongly expressed with regard to this subsidy. But we ven
ture to draw Your Grace’s attention to this correspondence as illus
trating the difficulties to be apprehended from continuing the pre
sent dual control of the relations of the British Government with
Zanzibar. In this case, while as yet the question of the continuance
or non-continuance of the subsidy was a matter of correspondence
between the Government of India and Y 7 our Grace, and while yet