'Memo on Mussondomom' [‎5r] (9/18)

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No. 1a.
To H. L. Anderson , Esquire.
&c. See.
Sin,
&c.
As the arrangements for the Gulf are under the immediate consideration
of Government I believe, I venture to'submit the appended memorandum as an
immediate paper, and to request your good ofTices in hiying it before His Excellency
in Council at your early convenience.
I request the favour of a copy for my own record, as I have written the one
now sent without placing it in the hands of my clerk.
The question of the development of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. line of Steam and Tele
graphic communication is under the consideration of Government, and I beg re
spectfully to submit the following remarks bearing on that question in its relations
to the Political Residentship for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . In order to avoid occupying the
time of Government longer than may be absolutely necessary, I offer what I have
to say in the form of results of thought. It will be easy for Government, map in
liand, to trace the steps which led to these results.
1. The principal objects in establishing a Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian
Gulf were the suppression of piracy, the suppression of the slave trade, and the
development of trade. /
2. Piracy on a large scale is now checked, but the maritime Arab chiefs
require to be constantly watched, and their disputes at sea to be promptly and justly
arbitrated; otherwise they would at once resume their old habits.
3. The slave trade still obtains.
4. Trade, which was in the first instance contemplated on a comparativelv
limited scale, may now be expected on an ever-increasing and extended scale. This
trade is, and will be, composed of goods entering the Gulf in square-rigged vessels from
K'irope, from territories to the eastward of India, from India itself, &c.; of goods in
Native craft coming from Western India, Muscat, East Africa, and the Aden coast
line of Arabia ; of goods in caravans coming from Meshed, Herat, and other points
in Southern Central Asia, down through Seyd, to Bunder Abbass, the natural outlet
I have the honour to be, &c.,
(Signed) LEWIS PELLY, Lieutenant Colonel,
Acting Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Bushire, \2t/i January 1863.
MEMORANDUM.
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