"وضع باسعيدو" [و‎‎٣‎٦] (٩٢/٧١)

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should be taken to avoid pronouncing an opinion on any
claim which the Imam of Muscat might possess to Kishm.
35, These views were approved "by the Government
of India, but owing to a sudden change of atmosphere
at Tehran, which led the Charge d'Affaires to ask for
Lor,i. his passports, action was not taken on them; and rumours
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that the Shah had demanded a substantial Increase in the
rent payable by Muscat for Bunder Abbas and its dependencies
(including Kishm) led to steps being taken to reinfoirce the
garrison of Basidu - steps countermanded in June 1822 on
the restoration of good relations with the Shah, but too
late to prevent the Charge d'Affaires from acting on
instructions to notify them to the Persian Government,
36, On 1st September 1822 Sir H. Willock
accordingly informed the Persian Government that it had
been found necessary to augment the detachment on the
island of Kishm as a temporary and precautionary measure
Precis
S,284. and received a reply in general terms.
36A, T .7hile in the circumstances described above,
Basidu was evacuated by British troops in February 1822,
it proved impossible to secure an equally convenient
naval station in the Gulf. Basidu was accordingly
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p.118. reoccupied by H.M.G. in 1823, from which year until 1878
it remained the headquarters of the British Naval Squadron
in the Persian Gulf. No protest against its reoccupation
appears at the time to have been made by Persia.
37, On 3rd September 1822 Captain Bruce, the
Resident/