'Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government' [‎70] (112/733)

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BRITISH POLICY IN THE PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
changed into the establishment of a permanent peace upon the seas
cxlenstn of the 0 !' 0 " 8 * "T® addUCed ' 0 thiS P ro P osi,ion ' he 'he
xtension of the truce, and suspension of hostilities, for twelve instead of
C .ght months, and Shaikh Khaleefa and the other parties consenting "o
ns arrangement, the truce was drawn out accordingly, and duly signed
' Wa ,l iS'o renewed for the same P eric,d in th c years 1839,
objection successively, without the slightest demur or
Immediately, however, on the expiration of that for the year ending
in pn , and bclore time and opportunity had been allowed to the
Resident to make arrangements for its renewal. Shaikh Sultan bin Suggur
attacked Amulgavrne by sea (as well as land), and had nearly succeeded
0 P '/ when th e opportune arrival of the Resident per-
and ,h"i l l SU . COeSS / Ull y Usin S his endeavours towards a reconciliation,
the blockading force having been withdrawn, the Maritime Truce
was again establ.shed and subscribed to by all parties for another year
Government had long deemed it advisable that the suspension of
ostilitics should be rendered obligatory upon the several parties for a
m0 , re lofo pen0d than llitherto embraced within the truce.
n l ), it became necessary to address strong and threaleniiiK
anguage to the Shaikh of Amulgavine, in order to induce him to fulfil
e agreement which had been entered into between himself and Sultan
■ lri ) .r' " le ,n, erposition and mediation of the British Resident,
in 1840, and make the requisite amend by the destruction of certain
oi i c( worts which he had by its terms been precluded from adding
o or erecting. One inducement to this chief to concede to this just
a 0l " t0 him tl,e little P ros P«» of the maintenance of
when a definite ne " erence to tlle P ccullar habits and dispositions of the Arabs : that
their fends and T ^ * tmCC ' ^ Sev,!ral t, ' bes <"»• to allow
won d a Is he 1^° rCmnm i,, abe - V,,, " :e ' ,radCT the "■»' it
thevfeSot^ r rP0W n t \ ,n '' Ulge t,,eir deeP "' feeli °P of animosity, slionld
precluded by the H f ^ COntrary ' the circura staiice alone of finding themselves
™ „ ■ , """t? 01 " 0f • treat y an end to all fntnre hostilities hv sea. from
ter the'sentiment 0 ' ,"'' SfaC " 0n fo, ■ "■ ron f! s . whether real or imaginary, would so embit-
retaliations wrml I n Cntcrt! " M ' 1 "oh other, that a series of aggressions and
retnlmtmns wonld speed,ly ar.se, wh.eh would only tend to defeat the very objeet for whieb
the peaee bad been negotiated.-(Extraet of letter No. 11, Politieal Department, from Captain
Ilennell to Government, dated 19th April 1830.)
t " The Joasmee Chief was guilty of deception and cunning in thus taking advantage of the
' ha<1 been unavoidably allowed to ensue between the lapse of the truce for
! ! 7 ^ ren<:W^ " f0 " 184<) - ,, ■ aS 1,6 " a ' i re P lied affirmative to a eommuZim'
the period „ e f"he nt e' rCq ' leSting | ^ in ,! 0rm ' !d "M-g to renew the truce for
t condtio s o rs;: , 1 c ^ ^ ^
the previous kno!dL j , any Cl " rf ^ hostilities without
make application gC "" SanCt,0n 0f ^ ReSideUt ' t0 ">ereby bound to