"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٢‎٤‎٩] (٧٣٣/٢٩١)

TREATIES WITH MUSKAT.
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Article IV.
As there is a person of the French nation who has been for these
several years in my service, and who hath now gone in command of
one of my vessels to the Mauritius, t shall, immediately on his return,
dismiss him from my service, and expel him.
Article V.
In the event of any French vessel coming to water at Muskat, she
shall not be allowed to enter the cove into which the English vessels
are admitted, but remain outside the cove; and in case of hostilities
ensuing here between the French and English ships, the army, and
navy, and people of this Government shall take part in hostility with
the English, but on the high seas I am not to interfere.
Article VI.
On the occuirence of any shipwreck of a vessel, or vessels, appertain
ing to the English, there shall certainly be aid and comfort afforded
on the part of this Government, nor shall the property be seized on.
Article VII.
In the port of Bunder Abbas (Gombroon), whenever the English
shall be disposed to establish a factory, making it as a fort, I have no
objection to their fortifying the same, and mounting guns thereon, as
many as they list, and to forty or fifty English gentlemen residing
theie, with seven or eight hundred English sepoys; and for the rest,
the rate of duties on goods, on buying and selling, will be on the
same footing as at Bussora and Abusheher.
Dated 1st of Jumadee-ool-Awul 1213, Hijree (or the 12th of October
1798, a. d.;.
Seal of His
Highness the
Imaum of
Muskat.
Further Treaty between the Honorable East India Company and
His Highness the Imaum of Muskat, concluded on the
January 1800.
Seal of His High
ness the Imaum of
Muskat.
Agreement entered into by the Imaum of the State of Oman the