"وضع باسعيدو" [و‎‎١‎٧] (٩٢/٣٣)

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Government
of India,
Persian Gulf
( 1801-1853)
Precis § 235
Lorimer i.
1936.
Preci s
§ 206
14, The Government of Bombay on 28th October 1819,
indicated to Major General sir William Grant Keir that
they were of opinion that the "occupation "by the British
Government of a central and commanding station in the
Persian Gulf was indispensable in connection with the
permanent suppression of piracy, nor is the Governor in
Council aware of a more eligible station than the island
of Kishma for that purpose
"It is understood that the Island of Kishma, as
well as Angar which is contiguous to it, belongs in full
sovereignty to the imam of Ma skat and should the reports
that may be received from you and the other persons to
whom the consideration of this important subject has been
confided be favourable to the measure now suggested, the
necessary negotiation will be opened for obtaining
possession of the spot that may be fixed upon for forming
the establishment".
15. In a despatch of 15th December 1819 to the
Government of India, the Government of Bombay remarked
with reference to the same point
"10.....We anticipate, however, some opposition on
the part of the Persian Government to that measure
/forming of a British establishment in the Persian Gulf/,
since it would be difficult we apprehend to satisfy that
power that our views were limited to the professed object
of our policy, the more especially as the Persian
Goverrment has manifested some degree of alarm at our
contemplating the occupation of the island of Bahrein,
11,With a view to allaying these alarms and of
enabling the British Envoy at Tehran to afford to the
Persian Government an explicit and candid exposition of
the objects to which the expedition is exclusively
directed