"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎١‎٩] (١٧٨٢/٣٦٢)

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May 18£9 to 30tli April 1830 was Rs. 78,524; and at Busbehr at this
® made soy;,, period, as i a Turkish ; Iraq, the Residency guard was commanded by a
British officer, and there was a Civil Surgeon. From 1823 to 1834, it
should be observed, the office of British Envoy at Tehran was filled by
nominees of the Government of India, not of the British Government.—at
first Sir J. Macdonald Kinneir and then Sir J. Campbell ; and, perhaps in
l ' 1 ' connection with this change, a scheme was propounded by the Court of
1 11 sa:Directors in 1834 for diminishing the political expenditure in the Persian
Qg ilufjj I Gulf by reducing the status of their officer at Bushehr from that of Resi-
'aiised, Ife- ( l en t that of Assistant to the British Envoy at Tehran ; but the Assistant
W at was " lves t e( l with considerable discretion (besides power to refer,
in an emergency, to the Government of Bombay) in matters concerning
the Arab powers of the Gulf. The Bombay Government, however,
protested strongly against this anomalous arrangement, which they
considered must lead to the nomination of officers of insufficient
experience to the difficult position of British representative at Bushehr,—
a position that was likely to become even more difficult if, as had been
proposed by the Governor-General of India, the duty of watching over
the maritime peace should hereafter be transferred from the Indian to
the Royal Navy; they foresaw no advantage from the Arab tribes
being brought under the surveillance, even indirect, of the British Envoy
at Tehian ; and they were unwilling to incur the divided responsibility
which might be forced upon them by a reference from the officer at
Bushehr upon the occurrence of a crisis in Gulf affairs. In deference
to their objections, evidently, the project was abandoned.
The idea of establishing a British station on an island in the Gulf,
j : despite che unfortunate experiences of the British detachment on
Qishm, was not yet dead. In 1827, doubtless in consequence of the
disturbaices which had recently occurred at Bushehr, Major Wilson, the
Resident, was ordered to visit and report on several places in the Gulf to
which tie Residency might in case of need be transferred. He recom
mended Kharag, and L.3 recommendation was supported by the Governor
of Bomlay, Sir J. Malcolm, who had for nearly twenty years strongly
advocated the British occupation of Kharag. A Civil Finance Com-
a' mittee, appointed in 1830 to enquire into the finances of British India,
f. Ci however, condemned the Kharag plan as likely to entail an increase,
j- rather than to facilitate a reduction, of expenditure; and their view
was justified by an estimate framed by the Acting Resident in 1831,
which stowed that, while a saving of half a lakh of rupees a year in civil
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