Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures

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This item consists of two translated copies of a letter from the Imam of Muskat [Muscat], Saeed Seyed bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, also spelled Syeed Saeed Bin Sooltan in this item] to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 1 May 1841, with enclosures.

The letter relates to the Imam’s concerns over activities of the French. He states that on his arrival at Zanzibar, he deputed a man to Noosbeh [Nosy Be] and to the Sucklabahs [Sakalava people] ‘to watch the proceedings of the French’. The enclosures consist of copies of the following: a letter from the French Consul who had come to Zanzibar to Khumis bin Oosman; two letters from Smekhoo [Tsiomeko, also spelled Smeekoo in this item], Queen of the Sukalavas, to the Imam of Muscat, and a copy of a treaty between Smeekoo, her Ambassador, and the Imam of Muscat, placing all the Sukalavas as subjects under the authority of the Imam of Muscat. The letters were enclosed in a despatch from 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. Secret Department to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. , Number 49 of 1841, c 17 June 1841.

Extent and format

1 item (8 folios)

It is part of

‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 33

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/5/395

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Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38

Former external reference(s)

No. 49 of 1841

History of this record

Date(s)

c 17 Jun 1841 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Territorial rightsTreaties

People & organisations

Āl Bū Sa'īd dynasty, Imam of Muscat and Oman

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