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'Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression' [62r] (63/72)
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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Majesty's service were transcript of your Lordship's instruction to me on this head
communicated simultaneously to his Excellency the Governor in Council of Bombay.
4. All danger of misapprehension of instructions would thus be removed.
I have, &c.
(Signed) HERBERT DISBROWE.
Inclpsure in No. 65.
Lieutenant-Colonel Dishrowe to the Secretary to Government, Bombay.
Sir, Muscat, April 30, 1869.
IN paragraph 29 of my printed instructions, making provision for the exercise of
Consular jurisdiction in Muscat, and received from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for
India, through Her Majesty's
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.
, I find the following command :—
" And it is further ordered that Her Majesty's Consul within the dominions of the
Sultan of Muscat shall, for and within the said dominions, and for vessels coming within
those dominions, and in regard to vessels captured on suspicion of being engaged in the
Slave Trade within those dominions, have all such jurisdiction as for the time being
ordinarily belongs to Courts of Vice-Admiralty in Her Majesty's possessions abroad."
2. The order referred to being Consular, the course regular for me to pursue is to
apply direct to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for instruc
tions, should doubt arise in my mind relative to action that may become necessary
consequent upon the existing order. But as weeks must elapse ere I can receive replies
from Her Majesty's Secretary of State, and as Her Majesty's steam-ship "Dryad," Royal
Navy, is engaged at this instant on duties of Slave Trade suppression in Muscat waters, I
have deemed it to the interests of Her Majesty's service that I should solicit for my
guidance the opinion and instructions of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council
on the following subject;—
3. No Sultan or Government having been recognized up to date at Muscat by Her
Majesty's Government, have I or have I not the authority to adjudicate in the matter of
vessels captured on suspicion of being engaged in the Slave Trade within the dominions of
the Sultan of Muscat ?
4. A copy of a communication addressed by me to-day to Her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on this subject is inclosed for the information of his
Excellency the Governor in Council.
I have, &c.
(Signed) HERBERT DISBROWE.
No. 66.
Mr. Otway to Sir F. Rogers.*
Sir, Foreign Office, June 5, 1869.
I AM directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will state to
Earl Granville that the officer in command of Her Majesty's naval forces on the East
Coast of Africa has applied to his Lordship through the Admiralty for information as to
the condition and distribution of the slaves that have been liberated at the Mauritius and
the Seychelles.
Lord Clarendon has not the means of supplying the information asked for, but his
Lordship is of opinion that it might be desirable that the Commanders of Her Majesty's
cruizers engaged in the suppression of the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa should
be in possession of the information applied for by the Commodore, in order that they may
be enabled to exercise their judgment as to which place it may be most desirable to send
the captured negroes; and Lord Clarendon would be glad, therefore, if Lord Granville
would have the goodness to procure the required information from the Governors of the
Mauritius and the Seychelles, and communicate the same to this Department, so far as
the above-mentioned officers may have the means of furnishing it.
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. J. OTWAY.
• A similar letter was addressed to the
India Office
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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'
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- 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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