'Précis of correspondence regarding the affairs of the Persian Gulf, 1801-1853' [‎86v] (172/344)

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Part V—Chap. XXXV.
293. The correspondence printed below slio^s the measures taken in fur
therance of the instructions of Government given above in their letter to the
Resident, No. 1584, dated 12th November 1822, and the Instructions of 20th
November 1822:—
Dated BnsMre, the 13th February 1823.
From— M b . F. F aithfuli ,, Commander, Senior Marine Officer, Persian Gnlph,
To—H bnbt M beiton , Esq., Superintendent of Marine.
I have the honour to enclose for your information a copy of a letter received from the
Resident in the Gulph^ which, with the instructions received from you, have been my ^uide in
Iraming- the orders to the cruizers stationed off the piratical ports, copy of which orders I also
inclose.
The Resident in the Gulph being- ready to embark from Bas«adore on the 12th of January
he was received on board the Ternate and sailed for the piratical ports accompanied by the
Juror a and Antelope.
On leaving Sharga the Resident wished to proceed between the Islands to Bidda and to
communicate with the surveying vessels and then proceed to Bahrain, as this passage was quite
unknown. I deemed it expedient to take a pilot at Sharga and discharge liim at Hahrain.
It having become necessary to fit on some port where the xenior officer might be found
not only to carry on the detail, hut also to communicate readily with the Resident in the
Gulph, 1 have chosen Mogoo Bay, as affording good anchorage, being near the piratical ports
and directly in the track for ships passing up and down the Gulph : should this arrangement
be approved it will enable me to conduct with some certainty the movements of the cruisers
00 ^ ie Gulph station. At present I am subject to some inconvenience from not knowing where
1 may meet vessels coming from Bombay.
The cruisers are at present disposed of in the following manner : Aurora on cruise off
nump Rasalkhima, Zezerett U1 Humra and Amulgaween ; Antelope on cruise off Aymaun
Sharga, and Debai; ^Aercury I hope before this off Boothabee and adjacent Islands. Teign'
mouth disposed of by Captain French of His Majesty's sloopin Bussora River.
I shall remain at Bushire to water and refresh the crew of the Ternate until the 18th
instant when I shall proceed first to Magoo to establish a native agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. there for the Resident
in the Gulph and then join the vessels off the piratical coast and look particulary after
Suadin Bin Zal. When these services shall have been performed I intend proceeding to Muscat
to give the vessels and water casks a repair and to refit the rigging.
T have the pleasure to submit such observations as I have made on my late visit to the
piratical ports accompanied by Lieutenant Macleod, Resident in the Gulph.
Dated Bassadore, the 10th January 1823. %
From I. M acleod , Resident, Persian Gulph,
To Ihe Senior Officer Commanding the Honourable Company's vessels in the Gulph of Persia.
As you are now about to carry into effect the instructions of Government for cruizing on
the pirate coast, it becomes necessary that measures should be immediately adopted for
revising and renewing the registers to be carried by the vessels of the Maritime Arabs who
are parties to the treaty negotiated by'Sir W. G. Keir.
2. You will in the first instance have the goodness to specify what size and description of
vessels you consider it necessary and practicable to register, and it will be intimated to the
'lifferent Chiefs that the registers of all such,vessels must be immediately renewed, but that
smaller boats are not required to be registered.
^ . wou ^ ^commend that the officers stationed to cruise off the pirate ports should
each be intrusted with the particular charge of a certain number of adjoining ports, so that
the three cruisers should together embrace the whole of the pirate coast.
4. A list will be furnished by each Chief describing all his boats which require registry,
^ nether he may wish for a register to enable them to go to sea at that time or not, I would
.hen suggest that the registers should be granted in the following manner.
5. The Commander of the cruiser in charge of the particular port should either land himself
or send an intelligent officer on shore to inspect the boats in person, and compare them with
the Shaik s list, writing a description of each in English according to the usual form of the
Register which he will keep for future information and forward a copy to you, the Chief
will then furnish separate registers in Arabic, under his own seal, for such vessels as he may
wish to send to sea during the year which will be compared and filed up below, and
signed by the Commander of the cruiser, but the register shall not be valid uutil they shall
have been countersigned either by you or by me, and must therefore be retained until your next
visit, or returned to the Chief to be forwarded, as the case may be, for countersignature,
6. You are authorized to grant or refuse at your discretion all registers which may be
applied for, in communication with the officer in charge of the particular port to which the
boat may belong; and you will send a list or copy of all Registers which you may issue for
my information in the event of any urgent case, in which a Chief may desire a register for a
ouat, which he wishes to despatch immediately for purposes evidently pacific and where
delay would be seriously mconvenieut, the officers, on the cruising stations may be