"الإصلاحات في مسقط: الجمارك؛ الموارد المالية، والمفاوضات مع العُـمانيين" [و‎‎١‎٥‎٣] (٥٠٨/٣١٠)

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At that time it vjfia 6xooct'h^+
.,Auuw...ea Lnat. tile now Senior ^aval
Officer would be arriving in I ^ ? " r. a . ..
•6 • 1 --« • ml it w-i3 intended
that when he did, a.u.s. ^ritoaarf should S o to -aacat.
The Political Agent was ini'omed of this in Uooo-.Vjor last.
However owiAg to Capt. uevan'3 unfortunate deatn^tha "Triad*
never turned up, and H.M. Ships "Odin" and "^pisgie" which were
intendsa for the Ciulf nav- **m held uf, first at Hodelte and bo re
recently in Somali land.
On my arrival at Ko^slt on the 7th February x received from
H.M.S. , brito^art ,, a copy of the Political Agent's wire of Oth
February asking la it mi of U/i.3h',pa -/Ith the I;aval Coramander-in-
Ciiief mig?it "bo di /ertod to Muooat, and t•il.nlclTit that . : |i« ^xce^ ~
lency might inconvoniencod "by th^ a'.-aeice 0° i.K.t:* w Triad",
which I thougiat .vas aocor,panying h.lir, I offored him the use of
Rel.^.Se "Lawrence" to t&k# him up the river, thus, as I thought
freeing a ship for muscat; "but t afterwards heard that R«]i« •
n Triad" was not -vlth the Co^man^er-j n-Chicf ard taat other arran
gements were maae, and r -r^, tonart" vmn eventually deoratch-
ed to cnscat.
From the above I think it will be eeen thu it has been im
possible to send a ship to "'uacat before, arid ir the circujr.atanccg
it seems hardly necessary to huve troubled thn government of India
about the matter at all,
A copy of this letter is being sent to the government of
India, gorelgn and Political Department and t^ the Political
Agent Unseat,
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Lieut-Ool•
Deputy Political Resident, Persian Gulf.