Zanzibar Affairs [‎146r] (7/10)

2. I am now directed to enclose herewith copy of the reply received
from Mr. Churchill. The report referred to by Mr. Churchill appears to be
his No. 204—60 of 18th August 1870, copy of which was forwarded to the
Government of India with my No. 339 of 14th October 1870. In the
enclosures to that despatch, Mr. Churchill gives the substance of his commu
nication to His Highness Syud Majid, but not, as supposed by him, the com
munication itself.
3. Dr. Kirk’s reply has not yet been received.
(Secret and Confidential.)
Dated London, the 29th July 1871.
Demi-official from—H. A. Churchill, Esq.
To—The Acting 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. , Political Department.
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In reply to your letter regarding the exact terms in which I conveyed to
the Sultan of Zanzibar the views of Her Majesty’s Government with reference
to the Muscat subsidy, I beg to state, for the information of the Government
of India, that the exact terms in which the above message was conveyed will be
found in the letter addressed by me to His Highness soon after my arrival at
my post, of which a copy w^as transmitted 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. .
In that letter I took particular trouble to quote the very words of Lord Claren
don’s instructions to me of the 16th of June 1870, in which I was told “to
intimate to His Highness that I had a well-grounded expectation that at no
distant period I should receive formal instructions from the Government of
India to announce to the Sultan that the arrangements existing under the arbi
tration of 1861 were at an end.’ ,
I am glad to say that I never for a moment lost sight of the fact that it
was from India that I was to receive this intimation, but I did invite the Sultan,
with a view to save time, to discuss with me the terms of the new treaty as
if the, by him, much-desired decision of the Government of India had reached
him; but it was no pledge on my part that such a decision would ever come;
and my letter to Syud Bur gash, in which I tell him that he is liable to the pay
ment of the subsidy, will go to show that no pledge was ever made of the kind.
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