'Memorandum on the Drafts of Despatches regarding the Affairs of Muscat and Zanzibar' [‎36v] (22/24)

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“ As for remonstrance with the Arabs, I need
hardly remind you that it will he effective in exact
proportion to their estimate of our power and in
tention to use it in enforcing our remonstrances.
“ In acting as he did at Soor and Khatiff, Colonel
Pelly, I believe, did exactly what his predecessors
had been in the habit of doing under similar circum
stances. We have sent you copies, I believe, of
every letter we sent him. The position is one in
which a very large discretion must always, I think,
be entrusted to the 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 when it is
impossible to refer for orders, he acts for the best;
great allowances should, I think, be made for him’
even if all does not turn out as he expected.
“ I hope soon to submit a scheme for the mari
time police of the Gulf, but I wish, in doing so, to
send you a complete statement of our present
maiine, which will take some time to prepare.
“ Believe me, &c.,
“ H. B. E. Frere.”
I 3 * S* I have just received a cypher telegram
trom Colonel Pelly, in which he says that he has
gained a key to the allusion in one of the Wahabee
letters to a religious war. ‘ Aboo Esau, who con-
^ ducted Pal grave through Arabia, stated’ (to the
c /i) i )eGS ^ ere was as agreement that he
c 7 algrave ?) should return and avail themselves of
£ the discontent and other circumstances in the Wa-
‘ habee country, revolutionize it, and afterwards
convert the people.’ We must remember that
tins occurred when Palgrave was travelling under
orders from Rome or Paris, and it shows that we
do not escape the most serious misunderstanding by
mereJy retiring within our own shell, and avoiding
omcial intercourse with these people.”
12th 1866 relates to the app^ZTof a British
n^atd Mr at R ^ Bo, !', ba >' Government had
attached to the ResScy to” b^Cm? , P0tl : eCar y
JvinSm "r 6114 l° f India ’ With0ut a ^!ng foTor
the appointment X ^ ana * ,0n ’ tele S ra P hed disallow
Mul't/wf understood"^ you* ta/To
thither a safe discreet ^ o anted to sen d
»i» ...um
sidar Agent, receive and transmif f "
tions with the ruler, and not di^matizr" 1 '""''" 3 '
Mr. Rozario" S the PoruTcuese 3 " 11 ^ S “ Ch a man in
long been charge of the Residencythere^’ He'! b "' 1
the place and its people well wa/r t ^ '/ k “ ew