'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎895] (1050/1782)

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security for good conduct as the Resident might deem suitable; and
demands of a similar character, to be finally disposed of on the spot, were
authorised in the case of the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi.
No action was taken, however, until the beginning of September,*
when Colonel Pelly with H.M.S. "Vigilant" and the gunboats
" Clyde" and " Hugh Rose" proceeded to Bahrain, and Shaikh
Muhammad, well aware that a reckoning was at hand, fled to
Qatar. On the 6th of September 1868 an Agreement was executed by
Shaikh 'Ali-bin-Khalifah, a brother of the absconding ruler who had
been to some extent associated with him in the administration, whereby
he undertook to make over the war Baghlahs and Batils of the
ruling family of Bahrain to the British Naval Commander and to pay
$25,000 in cash to the British Resident on the next day; to pay a
further sum of $75,000 in three annual instalments; and to appoint,
for the better preservation of the peace at sea, an agent to represent him
at Bushehr in his dealings with the British 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. . The Agreement
also declared,'on the authority of the principal inhabitants of Bahrain
as well as of Shaikh ; Ali himself, that Shaikh Muhammad had
by his piratical proceedings and flight forfeited the chief ship, and
that Shaikh 'All had thus become sole ruler of Bahrain; and
the latter pledged himself, in the event of his brother returning
to Bahrain, to arrest him and hand him over to the Resident. The
condition as to the surrender of the war fleet was duly performed;
the vessels composing it were burnt; and the fort of Muharraq, or
rather of Abu Mahur, was also destroyed along with its armament.
When about one-fifth of the fine, however, had been collected, it was
distributed rateably among the sufferers, and the remaining four-fifths
were remitted.
The subsequent proceedings of the Resident upon the coast of Qatar
and at Abu Dhabi form part of the history of those districts and need
not be related here; but it may be mentioned that Colonel Pelly
succeeded in effecting an arrangement, in regard to tribute and ^ other
matters, between the A1 Thani Shaikh of Dohah and the new Shaikh of
Bahrain. The tribute in question may have been the whole or a part of
the sum that was paid by the Shaikh of Bahrain to the Wahhabis on
account of Qatar.
Protests against the action of the British politieal representative were
shortly received from various Persian authorities; one, m which Bahrain
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* These delays are not fully explained. That which occurred between the begin
ning of February and the middle of July was attributed by the Government of India to
the inaction of the Bombay Qoverument.