'Précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853' [‎52v] (104/344)

Part IV—Chap. XXIV.
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It is superfluous to add that under the charge of arrangement now proposed the charges
of the 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. of Bushire with the exception of such as may be incurred on account of the
Embassy in Persia will revert to the debit of your Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. .
In laying the accompanying extracts from the Hon'ble Bombay Government Commands
to me under date the 2nd July last before the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General in'Conncil,
I shall presume to state for His Lordship's liberal consideration the long period which I have
been at the 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. (upwards of 12 years), the major part of which I have in general been
in charge of this station and have given satisfaction to those under whom I have had the
honour of being employed, particularly Brigadier-General Malcolm in the Mission he has filled
in the quarter and who recommended me to the favourable notice of His Lordship in the
address under date 80th June 1810 from Sultania for a remuneration for the service I had
rendered this mission. His Excellency Sir Gore Ousley has also mentioned my services in
favourable terms to His Lordship; under these circumstances I have to hope my temerity will
not be thought extravagant or unreasonable in requesting to be allowed in addition to my
present salary to charge from the period that Mr. Smith may have ceased to- draw them, that
allowanceB granted by His Lordship for this 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. of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. sicca 1,200 per month in
lieu of all charges as this amount is not more than sufficient to cover the expenses of the
establishment on the most reduced scale, and shall therefore from that period presume to charge
this amount in my accounts with the Supreme Government under the full hope of its meeting
the liberal notice and sanction of His Lordship in Council.
We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's despatch under date
the 3rd of April last as also that from Chief Secretary under the same date both on the subject
of the Bushire 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. .
2. The motives which have weighed with Your Lordship in Council for maintaining the
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. of Bushire on a more respectable footing are so fully detailed on that despatch that
it only remains with this Government to give effect to Your Lordship's instructions.
3. We cannot, however refrain from offering our respectful concurrence in the policy and
expediency particularly under the recent conclusion of the definitive Treaty with the King of
Persia, combined with the prospects of negotiating a commercial engagement with that State,
of establishing the representative of the Honorable the East India Company in the Persian
Dominions, upon a basis of equal efficiency and respectability with the several Political Resi
dencies in India.
4. Independently, however, of the Hon'ble Company's interests in Persia, the control of
the Resident at Bushire may extend over the Port at Muscat, at which place we are authorized
by the Hon'ble Court to appoint a resident with a personal salary of Rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. (1.500) one
thousand five hundred per mensem; but have been deterred from nominating a successor to the
late Captain Seton in consequence of the insalubrity of the climate, a more immediate control,
however, over that State and over the conduct of the Hon'ble Company's Native Agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. at
Muscat cannot fail of guarding against the eventual supersession of our influence and it
preventing the difficulties of re -establishing that influence on the occurrence of any political
emergency of an adverse nature, against which we cannot be considered to be at all times
entirely secured.
5. The just and liberal principles by which we have been instructed to be guided in
fixing a permanent scale of allowances for the 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. of Bushire we observe to be in
accordance with those prescribed in the orders from the Supreme Government as .conveyed in
their despatch from the Right Hon'ble the Governor in Council dated the 6th of April 1798,
founded upon the suggestions of the late Marquis Cornwallis as offered in His Lordship's
Minute dated the Slst January 1788 for fixing the salaries of the Hon'ble Company's
servants; they were the result of the matured reflections of that respected nobleman : their
justness was recognized by His Lordship's successor the Marquis Wellesley and has been again
presciibed for our guidance in Your Lordship's instructions now before us. In this quoting
the sentiments of authorities so distinguished, we are actuated by a desire of recording a
respectful acquiescence in the wisdom and policy of those principles which impose upon
public servants, by a fair and just remuneration, the obligations of discharging the duties with
fidelity and honor by removing every plea, for deriving emoluments of an objectionable
nature, the effects of which tend to lower the dignity of the Government, the character of
their servants and to prove prejudicial to the best interest of the Hon'ble Company.
6. By these impressions we have been actuated in determining on the allowances, for the
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. of Bushire and as the most applicable precedent have taken for our guidance the
Poll. Dept. Diary
No. 365 of 1812,
^p. 858-860.
Dated Buslure, the 17th December 1811.
From— L ibutbnant W illiam B buce , Acting Resident at Bashire,
To—N. R. E dmohstone , Esq., Chief Secretary to Government, Fort William.
Poll. Dept. Diary
No- 386 of 1812,
pp. 1458-1460.
1812.
Dated Bombay Castle, the 8th July 1812.
From— G eoege B rown , Esq., Acting Governor in Council,
To— His Excellency the Governor-General.