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'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression' [43r] (25/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (34 folios). It was created in 29 Oct 1869. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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There will also be forwarded to your care, as soon as it can be prepared, for delivery
to the Sultan, a case containing a sword, which Her Majesty trusts His Highness will
accept as an evidence of her goodwill towards His Highness.
The Queen has desired me to express to you her regret that she was prevented from
receiving you at her Court, which Her Majesty much desired to do: and for myself, in
wishing you a prosperous voyage to your home, I must add my regret that the shortness
of your stay in this country, since my accession to office, has prevented me from having
the pleasure of seeing you more frequently at the Foreign Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed) CLARENDON.
No. 29.
Mr. Otway to Major-General Rigby.
Sir, Foreign Office^ December 16, 1868.
I AM directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the llth instant, announcing the intention of Mohammed bin Salim, the Envoy to
Her Majesty from His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar, to leave London on Friday next,
the 18th instant, on his Return to his own country, and expressing his Excellency's
disappointment at the reception he has met with from Her Majesty's Government.
I am, in reply, to request that you will express to the Envoy Lord Clarendon's
sincere regret that the temporary illness of his predecessor in office, and the unavoidable
interruption to business caused by the change of Government, should have prevented that
attention being paid to his Excellency, and to the objects of his Mission, which, under
ordinary circumstances, would certainly have been paid to the Representative of an old
and valued friend of Her Majesty's Government, who has on every occasion given proofs
of his friendship by the protection His Highness has afforded to British subjects.
You will also have the goodness to impress upon the Envoy that no disrespect was
intended from the fact that no notice was taken of His Highness' letter to the Queen, the
delay having been occasioned by circumstances beyond the control of Her Majesty's late
or present advisers.
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. J. OTWAY.
No. 30.
Mr. Otway to Mr. Merivale.
Sir, Foreign Office, December 17, 1868.
WITH reference to the letters addressed to 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.
from this Department on
the 20th of November and 3rd instant, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit
to you in original, to be laid before the Secretary of State for India, to which Department
Lord Clarendon is of opinion that the communication should properly have been
addressed, the accompanying further despatch from Captain Atkinson, the Acting British
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
and Consul at Muscat, containing information relative to the affairs of
that State, and the part taken by the Commander of Her Majesty's ship " Vigilant " during
the revolution in which the Sultan was deposed from power.
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. J. OTWAY.
No. 31.
Mr. Otway to Mr. Merivale.
Sir^ Foreign Office, December 29, 1868.
WITH reference to your letter of the 22nd of October last, I am directed by the Earl
of Clarendon to acquaint you that his Lordship sees no objection to the proceedings of the
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This file contains printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's attempts to prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa, relations between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's relations with Muscat. The correspondence dates from September 1866-July 1869.
The file contains translated copies of correspondence between the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Saeed and the Viceroy of India, John Laird Mair Lawrence as well as translated correspondence between an Envoy of the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Stanley [Edward Henry Stanley].
On folio 42r, the file contains a translation of a letter from Queen Victoria to the Sultan of Zanzibar, Majid bin Saeed. The letter confirms the friendly relations between the two and informs the Sultan that a sword has been specially commissioned for him as a gift.
The file also contains translated correspondence between the Sultan of Johanna [Anjouan Island, now part of the Comoros Islands] and Henry Adrian Churchill, Britain's Agent in Zanzibar.
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- 1 volume (34 folios)
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The file is arranged in rough chronological order, with the earliest correspondence at the beginning of the file and the latest at the end of the file.
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Condition: the file is contained within a bound volume that contains a number of other files.
Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 31, and terminates at f 66, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 5-134; these numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression'
- Pages
- 31r:54r, 55r:66v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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