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My friend, I consent to your proposal that the Bombay Government should receive
the subsidy from time to time, and pay the amount to the Muscat State.
(Signed) JOHN LAWRENCE.
Tnclosure 7 in No. 6.
The Foreign Secretary, India, to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. .
v'No. 1,277) Fort William, December 24, 1867.
I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated 10th instant, with
inclosures, and, in reply, to forward, for delivery to the Sultan of Zanzibar, a khureeta An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites.
addressed to His Highness by the Governor-General.
2. A copy of the khureeta An important letter usually sent in an elaborate textile pouch, dispatched as part of the royal or diplomatic correspondence of rulers and elites. is inclosed for the information of the Bombay Govern
ment.
No. 7.
Mr. Egerton to Mr. Merivale.
Sir, Foreign Office, March 31, 1868.
I HAVE laid before Lord Stanley your letter of the 26th instant, inclosing a copy of
a despatch from the Government of India, from which it would appear that the Govern
ment has sanctioned the payment by the Sultan of Zanzibar of the yearly subsidy of 40,000
crowns to the Chief of Muscat through the medium of the Bombay Government; and you
add that Sir Stafford Northcote purposes to communicate to the Government of India his
approval of this arrangement.
Lord Stanley desires me, in reply, to suggest whether it might not be expedient to
defer expressing any opinion upon this arrangement until a reply is received to the despatch
which was addressed to the Government of India on the 1 5th of February last, asking
whether, " apart from the consideration that the Treaty which stipulates for the payment
of a subsidy by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Sultan of Muscat was negotiated under the
auspices of the Indian Government, there are any Indian interests involved in the political
relations between Zanzibar and Muscat which render it advisable for the British Govern
ment to require the Sultan of Zanzibar to continue payment of the subsidy to Muscat."
I am, &c.
(Signed) E. C. EGERTON.
No. 8.
Mr. Egerton to Mr. Merivale.
Sir, Foreign Office, May 27, 1868.
WITH reference to the correspondence as marked in the margin* which has passed
between this Department and the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. upon the subject of the subsidv awarded bv
the Indian Government to be paid by the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Sultan of Muscat, I am
directed by Lord Stanley to .acquaint you, for the information of Secretary Sir Stafford
Northcote that Her Majesty's Consul at Zanzibar has communicated to his Lordship a copy
of a despatch which, under date of the 26th of February last, he addressed to the Secretary
of the Bombay Government relative to the payment of this subsidy.
It would appear from this despatch, copy of which is inclosed, in case it should not
already have been received at the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , that it is only in consequence of pressure
put upon the Sultan of Zanzibar by the Indian authorities, that His Highness consents
under protest, and then only indirectly through the medium of the Bombay Government^
to continue to pay this subsidy, and further that he contemplates sending envoys to India
and to this country with the view to represent the indignity which he considers is put upon
him by being compelled to subsidize the murder of his own brother.
Although this is a matter in which Indian interests would, at first siffht appear to be
exclusively involved, I am to state that, as was pointed out in my letter of the 8th of
* To India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , January 8; India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , February 20; to India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , March 12 ; India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. March 26 •
to India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , March 31, 1868.