"مُلخّص المراسلات المتعلّقة بشؤون زنزبار من ١٨٥٦ إلى ١٨٧٢." أعدّه النقيب ب. د. هندرسون، الملحق بالإدارة الخارجية" [و‎‎١‎١‎٠] (١١٤/٥٩)

Proceedings subsequent to the arbitration relating to the question of the subsidy.
iplete information, we feel it
ive been much streng-thened
the abandonment of valuable
t is expressly so described in
urces have been so exhausted
this despatch, Azan hin ghes
invasion, and he naturally
annual payment will be felt
jO Chiefs whose interests are
honorary presents from the
the cost of the tribal forces
man amongst these Chiefs is
ire pledged to the punctual
the habit of receiving, and
i them and the ruler of the
pon the amount of success or
coast of Africa which has
;ers, we feel it our duty to
ive an opinion on the subject,
he payment of the Muscat
iction of the slave trade.
s subsidy as a matter fraught
lition of the de facto Govern-
ited if we are not prepared
le same position with regard
of the Zanzibar subsidy, so
3ontinued. We can conceive
) our legitimate influence in
nee in the settlement of the
n a declaration that we are
of the just demands of the
icommendations of the
;eport of the Slave Trade
recently sitting in Eng-
e opinion on the subject
at any loss of revenue
5 moved to adopt for the
to him from the subsidy
Government of India
vith that of the slave trade,
to be kept quite separate and
i which the name and good
which important interests to
the Sultan of Zanzibar can be
vide paragraph 48 reference to
22nd February. Little loss of
he Commission in paragraph
f, however, any compensation
inot with justice or propriety
pay the subsidy to Muscat."
Again, in a despatch No. 31, dated 27th May 1870, regarding the recogni
tion of Azanbinghes, the Government of India wrote—
"If in recognizing Azanbinghes as the ruler of Muscat we were authorized to intimate
to him that the payment of the Zanzibar subsidy, so essential to the prosperity of his Govern
ment, will be continued, and that we intend to maintain the same relations with him as with
former rulers, we anticipate little or no difficulty, by the exercise of our legitimate influence, in
preserving the peace in the sea of Oman, on which the prosperity of the neighbouring countries
so intimately depends. Without such an intimation our recognition would be of little or no
value ; and unless we are prepared to secure to him the subsidy, to which not only he but every
Chief in Oman and on the shores of the Persian Gulf considers our guarantee and good name
are pledged, we consider that we should not be justified in preventing him from endeavourinjj, by
force of arms, to recover those rights of which he considers himself to have been unjustly de
prived. We need hardly remind your Grace that it was with the express purpose of preventing
such hostilities that Lord Canning intervened to mediate between Muscat and Zanzibar; that our
mediation was offered when an armed expedition had actually started against Zanzibar ; and
that the promise of the payment of the subsidy by that State formed one of the principal
conditions of peace."
In the same despatch the decision of the Secretary of State was solicited
on various points relating to Zanzibar and Muscat, and among others
as to—
" Whether the payment of the Zanzibar subsidy is to be enforced, and, if, not enforced,
whether we are to inform the ruler of Muscat that we should interfere to prevent a recurrence
to that state of things which existed when Lord Cannin<r intervened to mediate between
Muscat and Zanzibar; and in the event of hostilities being threatened, as they then were, whether
we should send an armed force to prevent the ruler of Muscat from enforcing that to which he
doubtless considers he has an indefeasible right.
50. Mr. Churchill directed by Home Government to hold out hopes
to the Sultan of relief from payment .—In the instructions given to
Mr. Churchill on his return to Zanzibar in May 1870 by the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, it was said, with the concurrence of the Secretary of
State for India—
"You are aware that in view of the altered state of things which has arisen from the recent
revolutions at Muscat, Her Majesty's Government have had for sometime under their consi
deration the justice and expediency of releasing the bultan from the obligation to continue
this payment, and you may, on your return to Zanzibar, intimate to His Highness that you have
a well-grounded expectation that at no distant period y<m will receive formal instructions from
the Government of India to announce to the Sultan that the arrangements existing under the
arbitration of 1861 are at an end/'
The Government of India expressed their regret that the arguments
brought forward in its numerous despatches on the subject had failed to con
vince Her Majesty's Government of the existence of an obligation to require
the continued payment of the subsidy on grounds alike ot justice, national
faith, and good policy.
51. Government of India urge necessity for continuance of subsidy
on Syed Toorkee's accession .—On the 23rd May 1871 (despatch No. 27),
after the accession of Syed Toorkee to the throne of Muscat, the Government
of India addressed the Secretary of State as follows with regard to the pay-
ment of the Zanzibar subsidy ;
" As regards the claim to the Zanzibar subsidy, it appears to us clear that many of the
0 reasons conveyed in your Grace's Secret despatch No. 7,
* Vide paragraph 47. dated 30th July 1869,* as having induced Her Majesty's
Government to consider the British authorities under no obligation to maintain the payment,
do not applv in the case of Syed Toorkee. 'Whatever,' your Grace then wrote; might have
been the obligations on the part of the Indian Government to exert their influence to mantain
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