"مذكرة حول المطالبات المنفصلة لتركيا وبلاد فارس بالسيادة على جزيرة البحرين." [و‎‎٦] (٤٠/١١)

the dynasty of the Kajar family ; and that conse
quently her present policy was directed to the
maintenance of her lawful claims, and not to the
assertion of a pretension not founded in law; she
would be prepared to encounter in any scheme of
the kind the active opposition of the British
Government in India.
On being made acquainted with the views of the
British Government with regard to Bahrein, the
Persian Prime Minister promised not to make any
movement against the Island without giving previous
notification of such an intention to the British Govern
ment, but at the same time he said he would
undertake to prove the right of Persia to the
possession of the island.
5. In February 1845 Colonel Sheil sent home a
letter which he had received from the Prime
Minister of Persia, relative to the pretension of
Persia to the Island of Bahrein, accompanied by a
Convention, concluded in 1822, between Captain
Bruce, then Resident of the East India Company
in the Persian Gulf, and the Vizier of the Prince
Governor of Fars, admitting, among a variety of
other stipulations, the right of Persia to Bahrein.
But Colonel Sheil drew attention to the fact that
the proceedings of this officer were wholly unautho
rized; that the arrangement he had entered into
had been entirely disavowed by the Governor of
Bombay, who, as a public mark of its disappro
bation, removed him from his appointment; and,
moreover, that the Convention was never ratified.
Colonel Sheil, in a subsequent despatch, observed
that it appeared, from inquiries which he had made
at Tehran, that the Suffaveen dynasty, which had
ceased to reign about 120 years previously, had
exercised sway over Bahrein, and that it also seemed
to have been held by Nadir Shah and by some of
the race of Tend, which preceded the then reigning
family ; but that the result of his inquiries confirmed
him in the opinion that the Island had not formed
part of the dominions of Persia since the accession of
the Kajar dynasty. He added that the Chiefs of
Bahrein had, in all probability, from time to time,
given Peeshkesh, offerings, or tribute, to Persia as a
mark of superiority, as Candahar and Herat still
continued to do, without an acknowledgment of
subjection; but that he could not ascertain that