"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٦‎٦‎٣] (١٧٨٢/٨٠٦)

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of the latter at Ras-al-Khaimah as in the highest degree dangerous to
his interests. Saiyid Sa'id also expressed an opinion that Ibrahim
Pasha would be unable to reply to the British proposals without
a reference to his father, the Viceroy of Egypt, and that Captain
Sadleir's mission could not be accomplished before the time fixed for
the expedition, unless the latter were postponed ; in both of these respects
his anticipations were remarkably confirmed by the event.
On his journey from Masqat to Bushehr, Captain Sadleir was much
delayed by contrary winds ; nor did he reach Qatif, where his attempts
to open communication with Ibrahim Pasha began, until the 21st
of June. He found the credit of the Egyptians already gone and then-
short-lived occupation of Eastern Arabia practically at an end ; but he
still considered it his duty to convey his despatches to their destination.
From Hofuf, which he reached on the 11th of July, he accompanied the dts-
organised and retreating Egyptian forces by Dara'iyah and Shaqrah to
Rass in Qasim, where he arrived on the 26th of August, oni\ to leain
that the Pasha had left 48 hours previously for Madinah. From Bass it
was impossible for Captain Sadleir, in the actual state of the tountiv, to
return to the Persian Gulf; and he therefore pushed on with t' e
Egyptians to Madinah, in the environs of which he arrived on the 6
of September, his horse falling down exhausted just as he reached he
last halting place. > . , .
On the 8th of September Captain Sadleir obtained an m oivuw
with Ibrahim Pasha, and on the following day he delivered the t' eis o
the Governor-General of India and the Governor of
with a sword, a gift from the former to the ) '^ ha government,
mander insisted on referring the proposals ot .
thoagh ne longer eapable ef being pnt into effeet to * —^
at Cairo. The Pasha then proceeded on pilgrimage to J , he
Sadleir meanwhile awaiting the resnlt of the reference at 1 anbo'
suffered severely from fever. When a sufficient time had elapsed to the
receipt of a reply from Egypt, Captain Sadleir fo owe ^ be come
to Jiddah ; but the tone of the Pasha, formerly fuen , Govel . nol ..
uncivil. Eventually, in consequence of a studied insu o ^ ^
General of India contrived by the Pasha in conuec n Afh 0 f Novem-
present, Captain Sadleir broke oif communication on ^ ^ ^ Company 's
ber. On the a3rd of January 1820 / ^ dah " Capt ain Sadleir
cruiser " Prince of Wales ^ happening o Bombay after aa
was taken on board and so, apparently, leturne ^ indomi-
absence of nearly a year, during which he had supi ^ heg seilt b y
table spirit the most unusual haids ups.
Captaib.
Sauleir's
quest of
Ibrahim
Pasba
jourrvey across
Arabia, June
to September
1819.
and
1
TJnsatisf ac
tor y issue of
Captain
Sadleir's
negotiations
with Ibrahim
Pasha,
September to
November