‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’ [‎136r] (111/114)

Slave Trade.
were on 18th October 1869, awaiting transport, 684 had been distributed locally
for employment by the Harbour Department, the Peninsula and Oriental
Company's Service, or by respectable natives of India resident at Aden, whilst
about 1,000 had been allowed to search for employment or return to their own
country; 549 slaves had been received at Bombay, during the previous five
years, inclusive of those despatched from Aden, and out of this number,
361 had obtained empoyment, 114 had been sent to an African school main
tained at Nassick, and 36 had been sent back to Zanzibar.
The expenses involved in the transport and maintenance of these slaves
during the preceding five years amounted to Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 1,53,903, an expenditure
w hich in despatch No. 17, dated 18th January 1870, the Secretary of State
was requested to recover from the Imperial Treasury.
The Home Government demurred to one item of the account, viz..
Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 7,141-8-6, expended at Nassick prior to the Act of Parliament of 1865,
which extended the jurisdiction of the Yice-Admiralty Court established at
Aden in 1861, to vessel's name and nation unknown, and vessels captured under
treaties with the Imam of Muscat and Sultan of Zanzibar, and the Chiefs
of Sohar in Arabia. The Bombay Government stated that the slaves on whose
account the above-mentioned sum was expended, had been received from Chiefs
in ihe Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , by the British Agent at Shargah from Bassadore in virtue
of the treaty of 1856. As nothing regarding the treaty was traceable in the
Eoreign Office records, the Bombay Government was asked for information
regarding it, and they replied by enclosing a copy of the treaty referred to,
from which it appeared that the Chief of Bahrein and five maritime Arab
chiefs had in 1856 each concluded a treaty with ^the British Government,"
by which they bound themselves to seize slaves brought to their territories, and
to deliver them up to British vessels of war; and further to lay an embargo
on anv vessels which had landed slaves, and await the instructions of the British
Agent at Bushire regarding them. The enquiry was made from the Bombay
Government as to the authority on which the treaty was concluded, and
whether it was reported to the Government of India at the time. It was fur
ther represented by the Bombay Government that there was a further itcrn of
Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 50 on account of five slaves received from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , to which
exception might be taken by the Home Government. Ihe Bombay Go\em
inent replied to the reference made to them that the treaty abo^ o alluded to had
been concluded under instructions from the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. , and had not
been reported to the Government of India. XJnder these circumstances the
Secretary of State was informed (despatch No. 127) dated 30th August 1871,)
that the expenditure prior to 1865, and also the Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 50 had been deducted
from the claim against the Imperial Treasury.—J 8 ' 0 '
Nos. 183-89 and 323-25; June 1870, iVbs. 136-40 ; March 1871, Nos. oS2-83;
May 1871, Nos. 391-93; and August 1871, Nos. 28-41.;
126. A dmiralty instructions to N aval O fticers .-—In February 1870,
the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Zanzibar, forwarded a copy of the instructions recently
issued by the Board of Admiralty to the Naval officers employed in suppressing
the slave-trade on the east-coast of Africa with a view of checking the
irregularities in dealing with captured slaves which had bee ^ ^ r0 "o ht ^ tlie
notice of Her Majesty's Government.— [Political, A, June 1&/0, Isos. 8/-8 .)
127. N egotiations for fresh T keatt stopped bt S ultan's death.—
On Mr Churchill's return to Zanzibar in the middle of 1870, he received in
structions from Lord Clarendon to inform the Sultan generally of certain
103